Garth Brooks Quotes

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.

No one will ever touch Elvis

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.

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.

Bury the hatchet, but leave the handle sticking out.

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

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

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

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.

Life is like therapy - real expensive and no guarantees.

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

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

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

Just keep taking chances and having fun.

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 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'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.

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

We treat the lyrics like the woman any man wants to impress the most. We give the lyrics all the attention we can. I'm not sure other formats are remembering that the lyrics are what it's all about.

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.

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.

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

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

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