Quotes from Garth Brooks

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.

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

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.

You can't deny RCA's past and its history. I was also on Capitol Records, so I have that past history.

The hardest part about this business is accepting the back end with the same love that you accepted the front end.

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.

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

I introduce her as the love of my life everywhere that we go. She introduces me as her current husband. So you can see how the relationship kinda works here.

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

Your band members? Your band members don't want to be tied to a machine. They want to be playing. That's what the Beatles did. And the Beatles' stuff is timeless. That's what I would suggest. Just get back to sweating, playing hard, hammering, and having a blast.

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.

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

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

I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.

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

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?

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.

Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that's unbelievably talented... then to hear him sing those lyrics of 'What I'm Thankful For,' which is a song Ms. Yearwood and I got to write together, that was definitely a highlight of my recording life.

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.

People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.

What you do on tour is you build this 'You and me against the world' thing.

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 wrote 'The River' practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it was neat to hear him sing those lyrics because that's who inspired you to write them.

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!