Top 100 Mcgraw Quotes & Sayings

Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise. — Phil McGraw

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

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

Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds. — John McGraw

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

A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it. — Phil McGraw

It's a good community, country music, because we get the chance to sit down and ... me and Tim McGraw spend a lot of time. Me and Kenny Chesney had the opportunity to spend a lot of time together. It's been a lot of great advice through the years. — Luke Bryan

The old guard believe in that code because they came to it the hard way. They raise their children to believe in that code - but their children believe it for entirely different reasons." "They believe it," the Constable said, "because they have been indoctrinated to believe it." "Yes. Some of them never challenge it - they grow up to be small-minded people, who can tell you what they believe but not why they believe it. Others become disillusioned by the hypocrisy of the society and rebel - as did Elizabeth Finkle-McGraw. — Neal Stephenson

You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights, and understandings are translated into action, they are of no value. — Phil 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

Some people prefer the passenger role, because it imposes no real pressure to decide or stand accountable for their life results. — Phil McGraw

Right now, make a list of what you admire about yourself- don't stop until you've filled a page. Sit and relish each quality and accomplishment. When you remember how much you have to be proud of, you don't need to envy others. Instead of wallowing in your jealousy, use your friends' accomplishments as inspiration to pursue the life you want. — Phil McGraw

When you get married, your loyalty, first and foremost, is to your spouse, and to the family that you create together. — Phil 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

When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they're part of a family, not just a tour. — Taylor Swift

Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
— Phillip C. McGraw

Kids should practice autographing baseballs. This is a skill that's often overlooked in Little League. — Tug 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

Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower. — Phil McGraw

Like an enemy I knew as intimately as any friend, I came to know the nagging, constant emptiness of the incongruent life. I ignored myself and lived for people, purposes, and goals that weren't my own. I betrayed who I was and instead accepted a fictional substitute that was defined from the outside in. — Phil McGraw

Not until her parents came to visit did the McGraw clan, Caleb included, learn that Snow's father was half black, landing Snow squarely and immediately in the undesirable category. — Terri Osburn

Cobb would have to play center field on my all time team. But where would that put Speaker? In left. If I had them both, I would certainly play them that way. — John McGraw

Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you're supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self. — Phil McGraw

Loving smart means believing in you, your worth and your value. — Phil McGraw

Success means different things in different parts of my life, but overall if I have to define ultimately what success means.. the bottom line.. then for me it's if the family is healthy and happy. — Phil McGraw

I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That's a horrible existence for people. — Phil McGraw

Are you doing what you're doing today because you want to do it, or because it's what you were doing yesterday? — Phil McGraw

It's great if the in-laws themselves put up boundaries. But if they won't; it's up to their grown kids to do it and enforce them. — Phil McGraw

I'd like to do something with Michael Buble, Harry Connick Jr., Tim McGraw, Justin Timberlake, and Gwen Stefani. — Usher

On ACHIEVEMENT: "We all need encouragement--I love Notable, Quotable, DO-able Quotes! — Nanci McGraw

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

Why shouldn't we pitch to Babe Ruth? We pitch to better hitters in the National League. — John McGraw

You must demand nothing less than the best of yourself and for yourself. You must tell yourself that it is not wrong to want it all. — Phil McGraw

These are our neighbours, our co-workers, friends' children ... the problem is closer than you think, but so is the solution. — Phillip C. McGraw

When you allow a person's words to upset you, you're giving away your power. — Phillip C. 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

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

Drama and crisis are currency to them because they love the power to make people react. They thrive on a good fight, a good scandal, a good drama. — Phillip C. McGraw

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

If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does. — Phil McGraw

Always root for the winner. That way you won't be disappointed. — Tug McGraw

Chocolate is something you take for granted until you don't have any. — Marja McGraw

The truth doesn't have versions, it just is. — Phil McGraw

Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it. — Phil McGraw

I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little. — Phil 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

A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now. — Phil McGraw

There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he's held up by the others until he regains his footing. — Phil McGraw

I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own. — Phil 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

Common sense needs to be more common. — Phil McGraw

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

You get what you ask for in this life. If you ask for nothing, you get nothing. — Phil 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

Instead of being ashamed of what you've been through, be proud of what you have overcome! — Phil McGraw

Do you realize that you can't play the game of life with sweaty palms? — Phil McGraw

You can't put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken! — Phil McGraw

It is just good practice to do a situational scan and have situational awareness when you are out in the world. — Phillip C. McGraw

The difference between you and the person you envy, is that you settle for less. — Phillip C. McGraw

It's so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear. — Phil McGraw

I've learned a tremendous amount from Oprah. — Phil 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

If I had to pick the greatest team player in baseball today-and I have some of the greats on my own club-I would have to pick Pie Traynor. — John McGraw

Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost. — Phil McGraw

You should consider an employment change before you consider selling out. — Phil McGraw

We are proud to have a platform through the Dr Phil show and the Dr. Phil Foundation to offer children the voice they need to meet their goals in having a better life. — Phil 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

Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right. — Phillip C. 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

My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did. — Phil McGraw

You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self. — Phil McGraw

You are both daring and unscrupulous, and you think fast. I have been looking for a person with those particular characteristics. Also I noticed you speak Babylonian. — Eloise Jarvis 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

You're FAT - and don't try to sugarcoat it, because you'll just eat that, too. — Phillip C. McGraw

The boy's (Hack Wilson) got talent and desire, but he ain't got no neck. — John McGraw

My greatest thrill? That's easy. It came the day Mr. McGraw named his 20 all-time players. I'm ninth on that list and that is thrill enough to last me a lifetime. — Freddie Lindstrom

Some days you tame the tiger, and some days the tiger has you for lunch. — Tug McGraw

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now. — Phil 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

I tell you, if you're in the front row of the parade and you stop walking, pretty soon you're back in the tuba section. And if you want to lead the parade you've got to keep moving. — Phil McGraw

The queen's mocking laughter cut in. "This is your treasure, Lord Sheftu?"
"Aye. The greatest treasure in Egypt - a maid whose loyalty cannot be bought. Whatever bargain we make, Daughter of the Sun, must include her freedom. — Eloise Jarvis 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 think we can win it if my brain holds out. — John 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

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

If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure. — Phil McGraw

Blue-Eyed One, never again shall you cover your shoulders. I declare your scars to be medals of gallantry great than any I could bestow, and it is my will that all the Black Land look upon them, and learn the nature of courage. — Eloise Jarvis McGraw

Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else is listening, nobody else is monitoring what we're doing. We believe things about ourself. — Phil McGraw