I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.

If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.

I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.

I'm a big movie fan. After a show, if I'm on the bus or a plane, it's often hard to get to sleep, so I'll watch a film. An action film can even relax me.

I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.

I like to follow my favorite team and talk sports with my band or fans. You won't believe how many musicians are sports fans. We have so much time on tour that we need these outlets for relaxation.

I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.

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

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.

The guys have told me not to quit my day job.

I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.

There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.

I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I just loved him. But at some point when he was winning everything, you find yourself pulling for other people.

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.

The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.

If we see too much of one person, even though we like that person, we start to kind of pull for other people.

In our house, everyone's opinion is welcome. I grew up in a house where everything wasn't when it came to politics or religion.

How many songs in your life were your favorite songs but never were singles on albums?

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

I don't care if people remember Garth Brooks.

I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.

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.

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

I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.

I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.

The dads across the soccer field looked at me as a dad just like them. And I was very grateful.

There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.

Awards are for young people. They just are.

No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.

I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.

I don't think it's changed that much when you go on the principle if Garth introduced more rock into country music, then Florida Georgia Line's gonna introduce more dance and more beat-driven stuff into country music. That's just how it's gonna go. So whatever influences you as a kid, you're gonna put in your music.

If you're true to yourself, you just do what you do.

If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.

The great thing about albums is it gives you a lot of choices, and we can all say that the album business is dead, but watch Taylor Swift. I don't think it's dead. I just think we've got to hit on the energies that make people want to collect albums.

I'm gonna stay an album guy. In fact, concept albums are really blowing my mind right now, because if you want to promote an album, think about it - a concept album might be the way to go.

Music keeps you eternally young. It just does.

From as early as I can remember, I was focused on becoming a lawyer.

If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible.

Doing jersey advertising for the World Cup is not in the same universe as putting advertising on NHL sweaters.

I'm not here to win a popularity contest.

I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.

I couldn't do what I do day-in and day-out if I didn't love the game.

We just want to see entertaining, exciting games, and we want the officials to do a good job.

There are lots of come-from-behind wins, games getting tied in the last period, teams going on to win. That, I think, tells the best story. Whether or not some teams have more grit, better chemistry, or more luck or more skill, it's still within the parameters. I think that makes for great storytelling and great interest for our fans.

What our fans want, what our fans believe, what our fans are interested in is why we are what we are. But, nevertheless, ultimately we have to do the things that we believe are essential for the long-term health of the game, of the league, and of all of our franchises.

Whatever you do needs to be sustainable over time, and taking the money in the short term and taking it in a bubble - like buying an Internet stock in 2000 - may not be sustainable.

At least two or three of the leagues in Europe over the last few months have said to us, 'We hope you go to the Olympics,' and I looked at them, and I said, 'Why?' and they go, 'Because if you don't send NHL players, we have to send our players, and that's way too disruptive to our season.'

We did the World Cup to relaunch our international efforts, and that served as a foundation.

Our economics are not baseball's economics. Our game is not baseball's game. Our owners are not baseball's owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball's union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players.

We're certainly not in position to expand into the East. We've been very candid and up front that if, in fact, we go through an expansion process, the world will know about it.