Garth Brooks Quotes

I grew up playing basketball and eating hot dogs on the corner.

For me, baseball just brings up a lot of nostalgic, happy feelings because I enjoyed it as a kid, and I liked being out there playing in the sun, and it was a simpler time for all of us.

To see the ball, to run after it, makes me the happiest man in the world.

Baseball represents family. It represents my childhood.

When I began singing, it was the first time I was happy in my life. As a baby, I would stop crying when I heard a great singer.

I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.

Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.

When I was young, football and theatre were the only places I was happy. I remember school as just what happened in between the things that I liked.

I was a fan of baseball growing up. We played baseball; I used to play in an A&P parking lot. It wasn't always easy to find a good baseball field to play in.

When you are 10, and you are with friends making music or playing sports or doing whatever, I would say, enjoy that and try to keep that as the model for as long as you can.

If I can make a kid smile playing baseball, that's pretty awesome.

I played all sports growing up. Baseball was always my favorite, though.

I like things that make me feel seven again. I don't ever look down on people for the way they choose to have fun; it's just not necessarily the way I like to have fun.

Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty.

My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.

Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever, and at the end of the day I'd come back and say, 'Hey, Mom, would you hit 15 minutes worth of balls with me?'

I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me happy.

You know, it's kind of hard because I really - I see kids on their Rollerblades and their bikes, and just running around, climbing trees, and I used to do that. And I loved doing that.

When I was young, it was fun being in the locker room and shagging balls in the outfield in spring training. But I couldn't keep my attention on the games for more than 30 minutes. I would sit there with my Game Boy the whole game.

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

I had an amazing childhood.

I had a happy childhood: extremely outdoorsy and independent.

I miss baseball.

I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.

My daughter loves singing above all else.