Quotes By Garth Brooks

I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.

I'm a big movie fan. After a show, if I'm on the bus or a plane, it's often hard to get to sleep, so I'll watch a film. An action film can even relax me.

You know Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.

Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!

People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something.

It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!

I'm much too young to feel this damn old.

I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.

Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.

True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.

That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice.

My hardest thing was to let go, to be happy for everybody and just to enjoy. And go back to being what you were before you became an artist, and that was just a fan.

If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.

Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.

While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.

The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.

I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.

I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.

I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I just loved him. But at some point when he was winning everything, you find yourself pulling for other people.

Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.

If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.

I try to do my best.

Just keep taking chances and having fun.

You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.

I don't know of too many double Christmas albums, so it is something that's new, and hopefully will be fun, and there's plenty of stuff out there to cut.

I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong!

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.

As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.