Garth Brooks

Just keep taking chances and having fun.

I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.

Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.

People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.

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.

It's the sweetest thing to be a parent of a daughter. When they hit their twenties, they become these lovebugs that come back. It's just so sweet.

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.

I wrote 'The River' practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it was neat to hear him sing those lyrics because that's who inspired you to write them.

I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.

Because of the changes in the Padres team I played with last year, I felt like a veteran recently when I worked out with Jason Kendall and he told me he's liked listening to my records since he was a kid!

Here's my whole marketing idea: treat people the way you want to be treated.

The guys have told me not to quit my day job.

I'm one of those guys who has to have a constant something going inside and in front of my face. If not, I get in trouble.

I don't care if people remember Garth Brooks.

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

I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.

You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is.

I live my life by these little church signs you see as you drive around, and there's one near me that says, 'If we really knew each other, we would neither idolise nor condemn.' And that's it: if we all knew each other, then we wouldn't treat anybody any different. And there wouldn't be any big stars, I guess.

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

You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh fire.

The dads across the soccer field looked at me as a dad just like them. And I was very grateful.

It's the ropes and the reins, and the joy and the pain. And they call the thing rodeo.

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

I'd love to play a villain in a movie, the kind of bad guy you would never think of me being able to play. Like most people, I have a darker side I'd like to explore onscreen.

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

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.

The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.

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

My retiring days are behind me - they're going to have to throw me out now.

I'm very square and proud of it. The flag stays on the porch here.

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.

Its funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun and people call it entertainment

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

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

Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith.

I know theres nothing that I wouldnt do Go to the ends of the earth for you To make you feel my love.

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

In advertising, you have a small window to say the most you can. That's what songwriting is. The difference is, you get to put the leaves on the trees and colour 'em in.

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

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.

There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.

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!

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

The human spirit Unbreakable. Relentless. Free.

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.

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.

A dream is like a river ever changing as it flows and a dreamer's just a vessel that must follow where it goes.

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.

Awards are for young people. They just are.

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.

I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.

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.

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

I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.

In our house, everyone's opinion is welcome. I grew up in a house where everything wasn't when it came to politics or religion.

Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that's unbelievably talented... then to hear him sing those lyrics of 'What I'm Thankful For,' which is a song Ms. Yearwood and I got to write together, that was definitely a highlight of my recording life.

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.

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

I try to do my best.

How many songs in your life were your favorite songs but never were singles on albums?

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

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!

There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.

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

Be with someone who is kind. I think that's it. Just to love one another was the thing I would want to do. It's a thing that you can't stop doing.

The hardest part about this business is accepting the back end with the same love that you accepted the front end.

If we see too much of one person, even though we like that person, we start to kind of pull for other people.

I believe in the Wal-Mart school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.

I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.

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

I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.

That's what you want to do as an older artist - you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.

You can't deny RCA's past and its history. I was also on Capitol Records, so I have that past history.

My father and brothers were in the military.

Once you've figured out how to wait on people and clean toilets, it makes you very mindful of how you treat the people who are serving you.

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

What you do on tour is you build this 'You and me against the world' thing.

Thank God I'm with the love of my life. That's why I know I'm right where I'm supposed to be.

I just love to see people having a good time.

I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.

I like to follow my favorite team and talk sports with my band or fans. You won't believe how many musicians are sports fans. We have so much time on tour that we need these outlets for relaxation.

So I made a promise to myself to say each day how much she means to me and avoid that circumstance where theres no second chance to tell her how I feel.

No matter what you say you might do, you never really know until you're in the moment. Every situation is so different.

I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

I can take the steel guitars and fiddles off, we can make it a little more pop, cover ideas that are a little less cowboy. But you got to look at yourself in the mirror and ask, whose flag you are under? For Garth Brooks, I'm steel, fiddles, red, white and blue.