Top 70 Bob Seger Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Mediocrity is easy; the good things take time, the great things need commitment.”

— Bob Seger

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2. “I’m older now but still running against the wind.”

— Bob Seger

3. “Here I am, on the road again. There I am, up on the stage. Here I go, playing star again. There I go, turn the page.”

— Bob Seger

4. “Wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then.”

— Bob Seger

5. “Up with the sun. Gone with the wind.”

— Bob Seger

6. “Some people say love is a losing game, you start with fire and you lose the flame. The ashes smolder, but the warmth’s soon gone, you end up cold and lonely on your own.”

— Bob Seger

7. “Call me a relic, call me what you will, say I’m old fashion, say I’m over the hill. Today’s music ain’t got the same soul, I like that old time rock and roll.”

— Bob Seger

8. “I think I’m going to Katmandu, that’s really, really where I’m going to.”

— Bob Seger

9. “Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can’t have it all.”

— Bob Seger

10. “The years rolled slowly past and I found myself alone. Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends, I found myself further and further from my home.”

— Bob Seger

11. “She had been born with a face that would let her get away, he saw that face and he lost all control.”

— Bob Seger

12. “Moving eight miles a minute for months at a time.”

— Bob Seger

13. “Like a rock, standing arrow straight. Like a rock, charging from the gate.”

— Bob Seger

14. “Deep in my soul, I’ve been so lonely, all of my hopes fading away. I’ve longed for love, like everyone else does, I know I’ll keep searching after today.”

— Bob Seger

15. “Dreams die hard and we watch them erode, but we cannot be denied the fire inside.”

— Bob Seger

16. “Those are the memories that made me a wealthy soul.”

— Bob Seger

17. “That’s a good way to live, go against the wind.”

— Bob Seger

18. “They do respect her but, they love to watch her strut.”

— Bob Seger

19. “And you pretend it doesn’t bother you, When you just want to explode...”

— Bob Seger

20. “Set yourself the bolder course. Keep your heart an open shrine.”

— Bob Seger

21. “It’s a rite of passage for the everyman, to a higher ground.”

— Bob Seger

22. “Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.”

— Bob Seger

23. “Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.”

— Bob Seger

24. “I’m not a number. Dammit, I’m a man.”

— Bob Seger

25. “He wants his home and security, he wants to live like a sailor at sea.”

— Bob Seger

26. “It’s the age of reason for the anarchist.”

— Bob Seger

27. “Every now and then you’ll nail one that’s really, really special. And that’s what you live for.”

— Bob Seger

28. “Unlike a lot of people, I don’t need the affirmation or anything.”

— Bob Seger

29. “With only one thing in common, they got the fire down below.”

— Bob Seger

30. “Most of the time, I’m here in Michigan and I’m taking out the garbage every Monday.”

— Bob Seger

31. “I sailboat raced, I love to go out on my motorcycle alone, but I also love my family dearly. I love that aspect of my life as well.”

— Bob Seger

32. “You’re not going to hear me do a rap song, you’re not going to hear me do a jazz song. We have to be true to our roots, do what we do, and try to do it a little better each time.”

— Bob Seger

33. “Sometimes you can hear them talk, other times you can’t. All the same old cliches, is that a woman or a man?”

— Bob Seger

34. “Well all of Chuck’s children are out there playing his licks, get into your kicks. Come back baby, rock and roll never forgets.”

— Bob Seger

35. “My walk had purpose, my steps were quick and light, and I held firmly to what I felt was right.”

— Bob Seger

36. “And just about the time I feel like screaming and finding me a wall to punch right through, I look up and I just can’t help smiling, it’s you.”

— Bob Seger

37. “I used her and she used me, but neither one cared, we were getting our share.”

— Bob Seger

38. “I guess I lost my way, there were so many roads. I was living to run, and running to live, never worried about paying or even how much I owed.”

— Bob Seger

39. “One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see.”

— Bob Seger

40. “I work my back ’til it’s racked with pain, the boss can’t even recall my name.”

— Bob Seger

41. “I wish I had a nickel for every time I fell and blamed someone else. I’d give a ton of money to the ones I’ve hurt.”

— Bob Seger

42. “To a brighter light, to a promised land, you can feel the power, of the master’s hand.”

— Bob Seger

43. “I’m just trying to keep things simple, and just be a little more offhand and not get so deep into things. Enjoy what you got right now, because who knows what’s going to happen tomorrow.”

— Bob Seger

44. “Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they’re heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.”

— Bob Seger

45. “She gave me a false address, took off with my American Express, sunspot baby, sure had me way out guessed.”

— Bob Seger

46. “There was this long lovely dancer in a little club downtown, love to watch her do her stuff.”

— Bob Seger

47. “I write a lot of songs people don’t hear. I really just enjoy the process. I finish ’em all. I don’t think there’s a whole lot of difference between the bad ones and the good ones.”

— Bob Seger

48. “I was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler.”

— Bob Seger

49. “Tell them we’ll be dancing, dancing ’til we drop, it’s time to get down and do the Horizontal Bop.”

— Bob Seger

50. “I really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.”

— Bob Seger