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

Just keep taking chances and having fun.

Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Awards are for young people. They just are.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I don't care if people remember Garth Brooks.

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.

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

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.

I just love to see people having a good time.

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.