Top 70 Tim McGraw Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everyhwere.”

— Tim McGraw

2. “I guess some things never change.”

— Tim McGraw

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

— Tim McGraw

4. “I may be a real bad boy, but baby I’m a real good man.”

— Tim McGraw

5. “Like an old photograph, time can make a feeling fade, but the memory of a first love never fades away.”

— Tim McGraw

6. “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

7. “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

8. “Better than I was, more than I am. And all of this happened by taking your hand.”

— Tim McGraw

9. “We ride and never worry ’bout the fall. Guess that’s just the cowboy in us all.”

— Tim McGraw

10. “I ain’t as good as I’m gonna get, but I’m better than I used to be.”

— Tim McGraw

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

— Tim McGraw

12. “You do what you do and you pay for your sins and there’s no such thing as what might have been.”

— Tim McGraw

13. “I try to walk on the sunny side of the street.”

— Tim McGraw

14. “When all is said and done, I’d never count the cost. It’s worth all that’s lost, just to see you smile.”

— Tim McGraw

15. “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

16. “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

17. “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

18. “Look deep inside the eyes of a woman, see the man you want to be.”

— Tim McGraw

19. “If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn’t jump with them, I’d be at the bottom to catch them. Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.”

— Tim McGraw

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

— Tim McGraw

21. “When you touch and change peoples lives with a song, that’s when you’ve made it as an artist.”

— Tim McGraw

22. “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

23. “I still got a few more dances with the devil.”

— Tim McGraw

24. “Sometimes, I am my own worst enemy.”

— Tim McGraw

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

— Tim McGraw

26. “I live in a house with four women. Just shut up and say, Yes ma’am.”

— Tim McGraw

27. “The trouble with never is never, never works.”

— Tim McGraw

28. “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

29. “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

30. “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

31. “I love my wife more than anything in the world, but boy when she had our babies, it quadrupled. There’s just something about the connection.”

— Tim McGraw

32. “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

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

— Tim McGraw

34. “I need you like a needle needs a vein.”

— Tim McGraw

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

— Tim McGraw

36. “I let down my guard and my heart was as good as gone.”

— Tim McGraw

37. “Loving a man shouldn’t have to be this rough.”

— Tim McGraw

38. “I’m running out of places I can run, looking for a place in the sun.”

— Tim McGraw

39. “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

40. “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

41. “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

42. “I don’t even trust myself in my career much less giving somebody else advice.”

— Tim McGraw

43. “One boy, one girl, two hearts beating wildly.”

— Tim McGraw

44. “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

45. “Art’s for art. Money’s for pizza.”

— Tim McGraw

46. “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

47. “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

48. “I worked so hard for that first kiss, and a heart don’t forget.”

— Tim McGraw

49. “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

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

— Tim McGraw