Tim McGraw Quotes

“Loving a man shouldn't have to be this rough”

— 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

“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 just close my eyes no matter where I am, and just be still.”

— 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

“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

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 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 love producing. I have been producing some acts and starting a label.”

— Tim McGraw

“We're very blessed, just very fortunate to have the things we have.”

— 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

“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

“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

“There's rises and falls and ups and downs in all music.”

— 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

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

“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

“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

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

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

— 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

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

— 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

“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

“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

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

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

— 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

“Carry on, carry on, what don't kill us makes us strong.”

— 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

“Art's for art. Money's for pizza.”

— 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

“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

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

— 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

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

“Someday I hope you get the chance to live like you were dying.”

— 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

“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

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 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 guess some things never change.”

— 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

“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 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

“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

“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

“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