Garth Brooks Quotations

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

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

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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!

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!

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 was going to audition for this baseball movie Kevin Costner's making called For the Love of the Game, but the scheduling couldn't be worked out.

Poppa loved Mama, Mama loved men, Mama's in the graveyard, Papa's in the pen.

Life is not tried, it is merely survived if your standing outside the fire

When there's only one race, and that's mankind, we shall be free.

I announced last year that I won't be touring again. But CBS has given me the opportunity to take my music to the people in a new way, to have the fun of performing live, and to do it in such a way that I don't have to be away from home for long periods of time. It's going to be fun.

When I play Make You Feel My Love and it gets one of the best ovations of the night, that makes me feel like we're loved for things we do.

You know a dream is like a river/ Ever changing as it flows./ And a dreamer's not just a vessel/ That must flow where it goes.

We call them cool, those hearts that have no scars to show. The one's who never do let go. And risk the tables being turned.

She brings him hope in the way that angels do, taking him to heaven in ways he never knew.

When we had hot lunch in elementary school, I liked those biscuits they served. You could smell them about an hour before lunch.

The tour, as wild and as loud as it was in the first, would gain momentum as the years went by, because I would gain more confidence back.

It was the perfect Christmas gift to each other. We could not be happier.

Tell that someone that you love, just what you're thinking of, If tomorrow never comes.

Trying to learn from what's behind you/ And never knowing what's in store/ Makes each day a constant battle/ Just to stay between the shores.

I just wake up and say, You're a bum, go do something worthwhile today..

You know me. I'm going to try my best to get in everybody's living room.

And now I'm glad I didn't know The way it all would end the way it all would go Our lives are better left to chance I could have missed the pain But I'd of had to miss the dance

It really wasn't a hit. It was a bleeder that had eyes on it.

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

I've never stayed awake at night over a chance I took that failed, but I've stayed awake over chances I didn't take.

Don't let the world decide who you are. You decide who you are.

Sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayers. Remember when you're talkin' to the man upstairs; that just because he doesn't answer doesn't mean he don't care. Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers

Just keep taking chances and having fun.

Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the skies.

It ain't what you're driving or the clothes that you wear, material possessions won't matter up there. And someday in heaven, when the angels all sing, well these rags that I'm wearin' will be fit for a king.

Too much credit is given to the end result. The true lesson is in the struggle that takes place between the dream and reality. That struggle is a thing called life!

Life is like therapy - real expensive and no guarantees.

Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.

Heaven's not beyond the clouds, it's just beyond the fear. No, heaven's not beyond the clouds, it's just for us to find it here.

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

A mistake isn't a mistake if you learn a lesson from it.

That old star that you been wishin' on is shining mighty bright, but it's the fire inside your heart that's gonna lead you to the light.

I understand that music is a business, but for people who have control of their stuff, like little Taylor and other artists, I think you'll find them standing up for their music every chance they get.

I feel my job as an artist is to drive people to country radio. That's my job as a country artist. So these streaming places, especially these on-demand streaming places, where you can just push a button and hear it as many times as you want, like YouTube, any of that stuff, that's taking all the ears away from country radio.

As long as one heart still holds on, then hope is never really gone

My biggest problem with the retirement thing was I'd be leaving the part of this business that I enjoy the most... the entertaining part, being on stage and seeing how the music affects people.

I could've missed the pain, but I would've missed the dance.

There's a moment that we all come to, in our own time, in our own space, where all that we've done, we can undo, if our heart's in the right place.

I asked if I could read for the role of Kevin Costner's caddy in Tin Cup. It was a fun learning experience, even though Cheech Marin got the part.

It'll never go away until the fear you are running from is finally embraced.

Failure isn't failure if a lesson from it's learned. I guess love would not be love without a risk of being burned.

Bury the hatchet, but leave the handle sticking out.

It's midnight Cinderella, but don't worry none. Cause I'm Peter the Pumpkin Eater and the party's just begun.

Papa loved Mama, Mama loved men, Mama's in the graveyard, Papa's in the pen.

Listen not to the critics who put their own dreams on the shelf.

When the skies and the oceans are clean again. Then we shall be free.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained, sometimes you've got to go against the grain.

If you're gonna leave your mark, you can't follow a bunch of sheep, you gotta listen to your heart.

How you ever gonna know if you're the best? How you ever gonna know what you believe in, if you don't put it to the test?

Someday in heaven, when the angels all sing, well, these rags that I'm wearing will be fit for a king.

Learning to live again without you is killing me.

You were standin' way too close to see it fall apart. And there were things you couldn't hear, 'cause you were listening with your heart.

The crazy thing about it is she'd take him back, but the fool in him that walked out is the fool who just won't ask.

She's sun and rain, she's fire and ice, a little crazy, but it's nice. And when she gets mad, you best leave her alone, cause she'll rage like a river then she'll beg you to forgive her.

Dreams can come true with God's great angels like you.