George Strait quotes:

I love to fish offshore for billfish, and have fished all over for them from the Bahamas, St. Thomas, Venezuela, Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico to the Texas gulf. I haven't made it to Australia yet, but someday I'm going.

I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.

I love to fish. You can go hours without anything happening, and all of a sudden a big blue marlin comes into the spread and it's cockpit chaos. My dream is to catch a grander, a 1,000 pounder.

I'm a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty lies. That's just me and what I do, and I'm not going to change it.

I spend most of hunting season at the ranch. We all love to hunt whitetails, and we have a pretty good supply in South Texas. I also love to hunt elk in Arizona, mule deer in Utah, and I've been to Canada to hunt caribou.

Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was.

I've always liked Frank Sinata and Big Band music.

I can only say thank you and thanks also to all of the great songwriters who wrote those wonderful songs that became number ones.

If it's a good song and it fits me, that's what I'm going to do, I'm not out there trying to change the world. I'm just out there trying to sing country music the best way I can.

I listen to Mark Chestnutt and think he's a great singer - and he really does good material.

Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life.

Swing is my favorite kind of music.

I don't mind traveling that much when I can go somewhere and stay there for a while, but touring is different. You rarely see anything. You get there early in the morning and you're resting all day, and you go in and do a sound check, and you do the show, and then bam you're gone.

I love the song 'El Rey.' And for years, I never knew what the song was totally about. It was something new for me. I'd never sung a song in Spanish before. Then I got the translation and saw what a really cool song it was.

On the Richter scale of love and romance, you've hit a twelve.

Do you love me, do you wanna be my friend?

If twang isn't what I do, I don't know what is.

My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also.

I always enjoy it when I walk on stage. There were some times when I was working so much in the '80s, and I felt really burnt-out. But I'd be up there singing and not be 10,000 million miles away, you know, just opening my mouth and the words coming out.

I'm glad He had the never while staring into space, to give this universe a time and place.

I discovered in college that country music could be fun adding some swing to it.

You don't have to be a cheater to sing a cheatin' song, that's what I'm saying.

Cause I'm carryin' your love with me From West Virginia down to Tennessee I'll be movin' with the good lord speed, carryin' your love with me It's my strength for holdin' on Every minute that I have to be gone I'll have everything I'll ever need Carryin' your love with me

I'm going to write, and after two years, when I've quit touring, if a special event comes up that I want to do, by all means I will do it, but as far as a structured tour goes, at the last date of 2014 goes, that will be it for touring.

I think the melody is the first time I hear in a song and if I like the melody, then I'll pay closer attention to the lyrics.

This is the kind of problem you want to have! Country radio has been great to me my whole career. I can't thank those folks enough.

Country music and just music in general really lost a great friend today,

I'm always looking for great songs, and not being much of a songwriter, I depend on great songwriters to send them to me. I go through tons of stuff, and sometimes you just find material that kind of fits and becomes something special.

Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life... I like to be outdoors, I like to hunt, I like to fish, I like to play golf.

Life is not breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away.

I used to do a lot of interviews in the early '80s, when my career started, but it came to a point when I decided I didn't want to talk anymore, and people kind of understood that and left me alone.

You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends. I'm just a young buck out here trying to keep in that same circle with the rest of 'em.

I want to reach the point where people hear my name and immediately think of real country music.

You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever.

I remember that in '81, country radio was pretty pop, and everybody wanted a crossover record - and all of a sudden it came back to traditional. Now it's kind of swung the other way a little bit, but it always comes back.

If you start out trying to achieve a specific thing - like doing stadium shows or going into the studio and doing an album - the end result is what counts.

I've had great fans, and they've been so loyal over the years.

You've got to keep the stage world and your real world separated or you're headed for trouble.

I get asked sometimes 'What's the highlight of my career?' because I've been doing it for so long, and I always have a hard time coming up with something, because so many good things have happened.

In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records.

In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records. And I wanted everything that went along with it.

I didn't want to be 40 or 50 years old and still playing clubs, I didn't feel like I was making any progress, and I actually gave the band notice at one point. I began to have doubts about my abilities.

I'd say three years ago we played in my hometown of San Antonio for 55,000 people at the Alamodome and walking out there with a crowd like that is just, you're excited, you're scared. There are just so many emotions going on. I still get nervous for things like that until after I sing about the first one or two songs, then I settle down.

You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever... I'm not worried about it.

All my ex's live in Texas, And Texas is the place I'd dearly love to be, But all my ex's live in Texas, Therefore I reside in Tennessee

All my Ex's live in Texas, and that's why I hang my hat in Tennessee.

As we look into the future, it's as far as we can see. So let's make each tomorrow be the best that it can be.

Even though I've been doing it for so long, I still feel fresh. Even when I walk out on stage, I still feel pretty much the same as I've always felt.

From here on after let's stay the way we are right now. And share all the love and laughter that a lifetime will allow.

I ain't rich, but Lord I'm free. Amarillo by morning, Amarillo is where I'll be.

I don't think my music's as traditional as people make it out.

I get asked all the time, "What is a George Strait song?" I know it when I hear it. I don't seek a specific tempo or lyric or melody. It just has to make sense. Maybe it is natural because I was given the gift to sing.

I got ex's all across the country and I owe everybody in town. I got bill collectors a callin' me up, and lawyers trying to track me down.

I just continue to look for different material, great material, as good as I can find, and try to go in there and do as good a job as I can do in making it a record. That's all you can expect. That's all that you can do.

I like people who are loyal to me, and I like to be loyal, too.

I like the part where you walk up on the stage and you're up there for the show. I like that part.

I need someone like me.

I remember old Elvis when he forgot to remember to forget.

I should have checked the price tag before I gave them my last name.

I think 'Beyond the Blue Neon' is the best I've ever done.

I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time.

I was a young troubadour when I rode in on a song. And, I'll be an old troubadour when I'm gone.

I'm a religious person. I honestly believe we will see each other in heaven someday.

I'm not here for a long time. I'm here for a short time

I'm not out there trying to change the world. I'm just out there trying to sing country music the best way I can.

I'm not the hero who will always save the day, don't always wear a white hat, don't always know the way. I may not even be the dream you wanted to come true, but I'll always be the man in love with you.

I'm the luckiest man alive, this is the best day of my life.

In all the world you'll never find a love as true as mine.

I've been blessed with the ability to sing, and that has taken me so many places I never would have gone otherwise.

Let me tell you a secret about a father's love,/A secret that my daddy said was just between us."/He said, "Daddies don't just love their children every now and then./It's a love without end, amen, it's a love without end, amen.

My weakness for beautiful women is my most expensive vice, I still believe in matrimony, but I can't afford another try.

Of all the songs I've recorded, 'Amarillo By Morning' always sticks out in my mind.

She's a devil, she's an angel, she's a woman, she's a child. She's a heartache when she leaves you, but she'll leave you with a smile.

Sinatra, in my opinion, is possibly the greatest male singer of all time.

The almighty dollar and the lust for world wide fame, slowly killed tradition, and for that someone should hang.

You can lead a heart to love, but you can't make it fall.

You will always be the miracle that makes my life complete. And as long as there is breath in me, I'll make yours just as sweet.

You're the only one and only My heart's beating for I love you, need I say more

Life's not breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away.