Garth Brooks quotes:

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.

Just keep taking chances and having fun.

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.

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

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

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

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.

Thank God for unanswered prayers.

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

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.

Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.

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.

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.

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.

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'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.

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 try to do my best.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

You see in all my life I've never found what I couldn't resist, what I couldn't turn down. I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.

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!

It was your song that made me sing It was your song that gave me wings It was your light that shined guiding my heart to find This place where I belong It was your song Dreams can come true With God's great angels like you

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

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.

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

Bury the hatchet, but leave the handle sticking out.

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!

Noah took much ridicule building his great arc, but after 40 days and 40 nights he was looking pretty smart.

I've lost loved ones in my life who never knew how much I loved them. Now I live with the regret that my true feelings for them never were revealed.

Mistakes don't scare me or bother me. If I feel like I made the same mistake twice, then I feel like I've really screwed up. But if I make one mistake and learn from it, hey, to me in the game of life it's just as important to know what doesn't work as what does. So I think mistakes are a good thing.

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

Retail should never ever tell the copyright owner how their stuff is sold.

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.

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

This heart still believes that love and mercy still exist.

Singles are your safest songs on the records. Ones that piss fewer people off, that appeal more to the masses.

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.

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.

If my time on earth were through and she must face the world without me, is the love I gave her in the past gonna be enough to last?

The human spirit: Unbreakable. Relentless. Free.

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?

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

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

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!

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

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

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

A fan's love for an artist is so deep, I know I will go whatever depths it takes to learn about people that I'm in love with.

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

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've missed the pain, but I'd have had to miss the Dance....

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

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

But you've got to be tough when consumed by desire, cause it's not enough just to stand outside the fire.

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

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

Getting older doesn't help you in the fact that you might have covered some of this ground before. So you're listening to a song that you know is a hit, but it just can't be a hit for you, it's gonna be a hit for somebody else. That's tough.

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.

Holding you, I held everything.

I can't think of a recent baseball song except John Fogerty's Centerfield. It's very difficult to write a baseball song that pleases fans and non-fans alike.

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

I don't fly any awards at the house. Any award you get is usually for something you've done in the past. And I like to keep looking forward.

I hear them saying, "You'll never change things, and no matter what you do it's still the same thing." But it's not the world that I am changing. I do this so this world will know that it will not change me.

I know there's nothing that I wouldn't do Go to the ends of the earth for you To make you feel my love

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

I think in between where you are and where you want to be is a sea of reasons why you can't get there.

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 wore bell bottoms in elementary school. Never wore elephant bells. Remember, this was middle Oklahoma in the '70s.

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

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

If she were a president, she'd be Baberham Lincoln.

If you want to know how important Portland is to me, there's no Saturday night gigs here. They weren't available. So our whole thing coming into Portland, which is going to be different from anybody else, any other city, is every night is Saturday night.

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

I'll never reach my destination, If I never try, So I will sail my vessel, 'Til the river runs dry.

I'm not sure how we exist, as an artist, without country radio.

I'm sitting in the drive-through and I've got my three girls in the back and this station comes on and it's playing "Jailhouse Rock," the original version, and my girls are jumping up and down, going nuts. I'm looking around at them and they've heard Dad's music all the time and I don't see that out of them.

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.

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

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

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

I've got friends in low places, where the whiskey drowns and the beer chases my blues away.

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.

James Taylor and God are the reasons I play music.

Learning to live again without you is killing me.

Life is like therapy - real expensive and no guarantees.

Life is not tried it is merely survived if you're standing outside the fire.

Life is only therapy.

Life's gonna run you over if you don't get goin.

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

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.

No one will ever touch Elvis

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

One day I'll be standing at the river looking out across tomorrow, and the bridge I need to get there will be a bridge that I have burned.

Our future is not unpredictable, our future is simply the result of choices we have made.

Passion is something you'd easily die for. It's something you'd be honored to die for. It's something that's stronger than any machine man can create. It actually gives a mortal person wings.

Passion is what convinced armies that had no chance to win - it's believing that something can happen. Reality is what you make it to be. And when you're the only one who can see the way the future is going to be, you can be the tool that bends, rips, shapes and paints the future the way you want it to be. That's true passion!

People loving people. That's the enemy of everything that's evil

Somebody that comes and dumps a brand-new album on me and doesn't play the old stuff, I'm pissed!

Sometimes you just can't be afraid to wear a different hat. If Columbus had complied, this whole world might still be flat.

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.

The blues will be blue, and the jealousies green, but when love picks its color it demands to be seen.

The cool thing about passion is that no matter how good or bad a day you're having, tomorrow's going to be better because passion finds some way of doubling itself.

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.

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.

There's times I'd rather kill you than listen to your honesty.

There's two dates in time That they'll carve on your stone And everyone knows what they mean What's more important Is the time that is known In that little dash there in between That little dash there in between

They call them fools, who are unable to resist the slightest chance love might exist.

Time is on the side of all things good.