Tim McGraw Quotes & Sayings

I live in a house with four women. Just shut up and say, Yes, ma'am. — Tim McGraw

Beyond the picket fences and the oil wells, the happy endings, and the fairy tales, is the reality of shattered lives and broken dreams. We carry on. — Tim McGraw

I am heartbroken by the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in my home state. Like so many Americans I am watching the news reports with great sadness. But it's at times like these that each of us must work together to provide lifesaving aid to those in terrible need. — Tim McGraw

You know not having my real dad around and having a step dad made me want to be a great dad. So now I have been one for 9 years. And now 3 daughters. So, that is what I am - a dad, first and foremost, before anything else. It's just something that comes natural now. — Tim McGraw

Carry on, carry on, what don't kill us makes us strong. — Tim McGraw

I didn't want to play a rancher. I didn't want to have a cowboy hat on; I wanted to get away from that in the things I do. But I read the script and fell in love with it. As hard as I tried to say no, I couldn't. — Tim McGraw

I don't even trust myself in my career much less giving somebody else advice. — Tim McGraw

I mean, there's a little bit that gets out, but for the most part, the thing that makes us work, and makes our family successful, and our life successful, is when we walk home and we walk into our doors of our house, all that other stuff is left outside. It's not a factor. — Tim McGraw

You know, we're very private, and I think that we really separate and try to keep our privacy to ourselves. There's things that people assume a lot of times, and we understand that people are interested, but we really try to keep our family life private as much as we can. — Tim McGraw

We're parents first, and once you have kids, everybody knows that you have priority lists. Number one is your family and everything else just kind of finds its place. — Tim McGraw

I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can. — Tim McGraw

My mom is my hero. [She] inspired me to dream when I was a kid, so anytime anyone inspires you to dream, that's gotta be your hero. — Tim McGraw

What are you doing son, you're gonna drive yourself insane. You'll never find the sunshine, when you're following the rain. — Tim McGraw

I get ticked off a lot because I don't think she [Faith Hill] gets the respect she deserves. I tell her all the time, "If you were 300 pounds and dog ugly, people would think you were the greatest singer in the world." They have the tendency to look at her and never really listen to her. The reason it works is she's a fantastic artist. It's almost embarrassing for me to sing with her sometimes. — Tim McGraw

But I was so wrapped up in sports growing up as a kid, that I think I was going to grow to be a pro ball player. But I found out real quick that was not going to happen. — Tim McGraw

I think country music is about honesty. Any art has to have honesty to start with, as the core of it. I mean, they're just going to manipulate you in one way or the other, but there has to honesty at the core of it. — Tim McGraw

I like the values in Flicka, and I wanted to do a movie my kids could see and be proud of. — Tim McGraw

I'm running out of places I can run, looking for a place in the sun. — Tim McGraw

because being with you makes perfect sense — Tim McGraw

One of these days I'm gonna love me
And feel the joy of sweet release
One of these days I'll rise above me
And at last I'll find some peace
And then I'm gonna smile a little
And maybe even laugh a little
But one of these days ...
I'm gonna love me — Tim McGraw

It's innate in me to be a blue-dog Democrat. I'm not saying I'm right or wrong, but that's what I am. My wife and I and our family will do everything we can to support Obama. I like his ideas, I like his energy, and I like the statement he would make for our country to the world. — Tim McGraw

You don't try to get influenced by everything that's going on with all the other music around you. You don't listen to the radio - I mean, I don't. When I get ready to do an album, I don't listen to anybody else; I don't wanna be influenced. — Tim McGraw

How bad do you want it? How bad do you need it? Are you eating, sleeping, dreaming with that one thing on your mind? How bad do you want it? How bad do you need it? 'Cause if you want it you gotta lay it all out on the line. — Tim McGraw

I still got a few more dances with the devil. — Tim McGraw

We're very blessed, just very fortunate to have the things we have. — Tim McGraw

One of the most memorable live performances of my career took place on the 2002 American Music Awards show when I had to the opportunity to sing with Elton John. I was moved by the way he played the piano onstage. — Tim McGraw

It saddens me to think that there are children in America who are hungry every day of their lives. No one can live - and grow - withoiut such a fundamental necessity as food. If we Americans reach out to our own communities, we could end this crisis. — Tim McGraw

I mean as long as I have been doing music I know I am only 30% of what I could be and want to be. — Tim McGraw

I don't want to make that sound like I'm preaching from a mountain top when I say you have to give your family everything, because I know it's hard for people. I'm lucky to be in a position where you can establish those ground rules and make it that way. — Tim McGraw

Love knows no limits to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen. — Tim McGraw

I'm coming up on 40 next year, and after making so many records and doing music for so long, I'm looking for a change and a different perspective. And every now and then, I think I have something I want to say. — Tim McGraw

I may be a real bad boy, but baby I'm a real good man. — Tim McGraw

I need you like a needle needs a vein. — Tim McGraw

I worked so hard for that first kiss, and a heart don't forget. — Tim McGraw

I try to walk on the sunny side of the street. — Tim McGraw

I try not to worry about other people's music. But if there's one thing that I hear these days, it's that people try and put [music] down so tight that they take all the color out of it. — Tim McGraw

I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee. Not now, but when I'm 50, when music dies down a little bit. I know lots of artists and actors have those delusions of grandeur, but ever since I was a kid, it's been of interest to me. — Tim McGraw

I think of myself as a serious artist. Sometimes you can get in your head too much about that and forget that you have to have fun. I've been guilty in my career about that at times. But the more I thought about it, the more I thought I didn't want anybody else to have a hit with it! — Tim McGraw

Sometimes, I am my own worst enemy. — Tim McGraw

Country radio went through a time where they were trying to pigeonhole everybody, and trying to make the gap really narrow, and I think that they've opened that up a little bit. — Tim McGraw

When you touch and change peoples lives with a song, that's when you've made it as an artist — Tim McGraw

Look deep inside the eyes of a woman, see the man you want to be. — Tim McGraw

I always want to learn but I am sure on my dying day I will feel like I left something in the bucket. — Tim McGraw

Love can sort of rebound and regrow and reinvent itself around a lot of things, but when somebody can't forgive themself for something, I think love sort of withers in that situation. — Tim McGraw

Just to see you smile I'd do anything that you wanted me to. When all is said and done I'd never count the cost, cause it's worth all that's lost just to see you smile. — Tim McGraw

The way he shook his hips up there on that stage, but before that fateful day when he left Tennessee all of them were calling him the King. — Tim McGraw

Better than I was, more than I am
And all of this happen by taking your hand
And who I am now is who I wanted to be
And now that we're together
I'm stronger than ever I'm happy and free — Tim McGraw

I've been around the music business for a long time now, and I've had a lot of chances to do movies. But I didn't really want to do any until I found stuff that started to hit me in the right place. — Tim McGraw

There's rises and falls and ups and downs in all music. — Tim McGraw

I'm actually not an exhibitionist at all. When you get onstage and you get under the lights playing music, I feel more hidden and more alone than anywhere else. You hide behind your music and let your emotions come out through the music. — Tim McGraw

The last movie I did, I was very lucky: I got to work with probably the best actor of our era, Billy Bob Thornton. He's just incredible. I was like a sponge: I soaked up everything he had to say. — Tim McGraw

Some say it's too country, some say it's too rock n' roll. But it's just good music if you can feel it in your soul. — Tim McGraw

There's a tear in his eye that refuses to fall. If it would land on me, that would say it all. — Tim McGraw

The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country. — Tim McGraw

One of the most basic things we can do is let the men in our lives know it's not okay to mistreat a woman. — Tim McGraw

It's innate in me to be a Democrat - a true Southern populist kind of Democrat. There's not a lot of those anymore. I'm not saying I'm right or wrong. That's just the way I feel. — Tim McGraw

I love producing. I have been producing some acts and starting a label. — Tim McGraw

No, there will come a time where I'm not gonna do this anymore. I mean, there will come a time, definitely, where I'll turn into Elvis - I'm gonna be fat and fishin', I guarantee you. — Tim McGraw

Five years ago I figured we were at the top of our game and that was the best it was going to get, but with every album it seems to keep on building on itself. — Tim McGraw

Like an old photograph, time can make a feeling fade, but the memory of a first love never fades away. — Tim McGraw

Critics who attack my wife bug me. It makes me want to pay 'em a visit so I could give 'em a good punch in the nose. — Tim McGraw

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everyhwere. — Tim McGraw

I feel like that I'm learning all the time. I'm learning from new artists, from established artists ... every time I listen to '70s rock 'n' roll records, I'm learning. And I think that I'm just now starting to get a hold on what I do. — Tim McGraw

When all our tears have reached the sea, part of you will live in me. — Tim McGraw

Man, I didn't think I stood a chance. I mean, she was way out of my league.she still is. — Tim McGraw

We ride and never worry 'bout the fall. Guess that's just the cowboy in us all. — Tim McGraw

You do what you do and you pay for your sins and there's no such thing as what might have been. — Tim McGraw

I have three daughters, so I can't be as tough as I want to be. When you have kids - especially daughters - they know how to work you. They're a lot smarter than we are, that's for sure. But I'll be more tough on their boyfriends. — Tim McGraw

I ain't as good as I'm gonna get, but I'm better than I used to be. — Tim McGraw

Well, you do what you do and you pay for your sins, but there's no such thing as what might have been. That's a waste of time; drive you outta your mind — Tim McGraw

You stand by me, and you believe in me like nobody ever has. When my world goes crazy, you're right there to save me. You make me see how much I have. — Tim McGraw

When I first started, I was really nervous. You could hear my voice quiver. So I started drinking a bit and that helped. A lot of entertainers have a few drinks before going onstage and don't overdo it. Me, it turned into a bigger habit. But I stopped that. I was getting older, and I was thinking about my kids. There's enough roadblocks out there without throwing in more yourself. — Tim McGraw

People always ask me
"Son what does it take
To reach out and touch your dreams?"
To them I always say
Are you hungry?
Are you thirsty?
Is it a fire that burns you up inside?
How bad do you want it?
How bad do you need it?
Are you eating, sleeping, dreaming
With that one thing on your mind?
How bad do you want it?
How bad do you need it?
Cause if you want it all
You've got to lay it all out on the line — Tim McGraw

I think you have to be a little bit strict. You can't be friend and their parent in a lot of situations, especially in this day and age where it's so dangerous for kids. So there's a bit of sternness, I guess, in the way I raise my kids. — Tim McGraw

One boy, one girl, two hearts beating wildly. — Tim McGraw

Loving a man shouldn't have to be this rough — Tim McGraw

Someday I hope you get the chance to live like you were dying. — Tim McGraw

I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You don't always pick the right path, but it's there in your conscience. — Tim McGraw

Sun on my shoulders and the wind at my back, bound and determined to get back on track to where the heart is..where it's been all along. — Tim McGraw

For me, there's a tremendous challenge of singing with Faith, who, in my opinion is one of the best singers in the world. She doesn't get enough credit for being as good as she is. She's so beautiful that people look past her singing. But for a journeyman like me to keep up with her is a real tough sprint. — Tim McGraw

The trouble with never is never, never works. — Tim McGraw

I think country music is really one of the biggest genres of music out there and one the most successful genres. — Tim McGraw

I don't know where I'd be without you here with me. Life with you makes perfect sense. You're my best friend. — Tim McGraw

There ain't no troubles that we can't rise above, with a handful of faith and a heartful of love. — Tim McGraw

She said I bet you dont remember me And I said only every other memory. — Tim McGraw

Like I say, I'm always writing and if something sticks, it sticks. I get to write with great songwriters in town. Lori McKenna is one of my all-time favorite singer-songwriters who's ever walked the planet. I get to write with her. The Warren Brothers are friends of mine and I write with them all the time. Lance Miller is a great songwriter. Tom Douglas - you can't get any better than that. I write a lot of stuff but it's got to stick. — Tim McGraw

Down to my last dime and coming apart at the seams. I'm messed up in Mexico, living on refried dreams. — Tim McGraw

I mean, I grew up riding. I can't ever remember not being able to ride or rope and all that stuff. It was part of my life growing up, so it was fun for me. — Tim McGraw

I love Bill Clinton. I think we should make him king. I'm talking the red robe, the turkey leg - everything. — Tim McGraw

Art's for art. Money's for pizza. — Tim McGraw

When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age. — Tim McGraw

Everyone should have their own opinion and be able to voice it. No matter what it is. Of course, that does not mean your opinion is always right. But, you're certainly entitled to your opinion. — Tim McGraw

If you don't feel comfortable with the Red Cross, anything that you feel comfortable sending money to
that you know is going to get to the hurricane victims
send money. Because that's what you can do to help. And a lot of prayers. Lots of prayers. — Tim McGraw

I let down my guard and my heart was as good as gone. — Tim McGraw

People get out of music what they want to get out of it, and all I try to do is do the same thing. — Tim McGraw

I guess some things never change. — Tim McGraw

The face that's in the mirror when I don't like what I see / I guess that's just the cowboy in me, — Tim McGraw

I just close my eyes no matter where I am, and just be still. — Tim McGraw