Top 131 Quotes & Sayings by Darius Rucker
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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
I believe that one of the reasons I get to play golf all over the world is because of the barriers that Lee Elder broke down. I just think he's amazing.
Remember the Stax label and how if you liked one record, you liked all the others as well? You don't talk to a lot of people who tell you how much they love their record label. I don't care how many records they sell.
I just wanted to go out and make a record that I've always wanted to make since I was a kid.
I expect to make a career out of country music.
I've known Tiger since he was 18. Tiger is a great guy. I am so happy for him right now.
At the end of the day, I'm a fan of great stories and great songs.
It's hard to be married to me, and it was a lot harder when I was younger!
I think people who go out and tell you how much they're gonna change things are the people who end up being just another whatever. I'm never trying to change anything. That's not for me.
I always tell people, the first time I heard 'She Talks To Angels,' those lyrics did something to me.
One of the things that I'm dying to do is to sing the hook on a big rap song.
Marriage is not easy. You have to decide to work. That's what it really comes down to: two people deciding to stay together or not.
Ric Flair was such a huge part of my childhood and teen years. He's an icon.
I had an AM radio and listened to Al Green, Kenny Rogers, Stevie Wonder, Charley Pride and Cheap Trick - sometimes in the same hour on the same station!
One of the great reasons to be in Nashville is, you get guys like Shane McAnally to write songs with.
What I love about each album is the opportunity to expand on what we've done in the past - to push myself and the band creatively, vocally, and lyrically.
We got to do a few things with President Clinton. To be invited to Washington again to play with Ashanti and all those other cool people there in front of President Bush and the rest of the world feels awesome. I'm really looking forward to going.
Whether you are on stage or playing golf, all it takes is one person to throw everything off.
When you're doing a Motley Crue tribute record, you can ask anyone to do it, and they're not going to say no.
I love Hootie & the Blowfish and what we do, but that's not my main focus anymore.
It's hokey, but I love sitting in an inner tube and taking it easy on a lazy river ride. I can sit there all day.
Ice Cube is doing so great. He went from being this hardcore gangster rapper to this actor now. He's doing children's movies and all this stuff - he's rocking it.
The other guys in Hootie were into rock. I brought the country influence.
To have John Mellencamp compliment my songwriting? That was unreal.
It's about the music, not the color of the person playing the music.
For me, '52nd Street' is quintessential Billy Joel. I bought that record as a kid and listened to it so much.
One of my pet peeves is when people think that pop guys go country when they can't make it in pop anymore.
Arnold Palmer is my favorite, just getting to know him and all of the film on him and his game. He was the first real superstar in golf. You had Bobby Jones and all of those guys, but Arnold Palmer was bigger than life.
When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays.
There's two times of year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season.
I'm used to being the only black guy. I've seriously walked onstage, looked out in the audience, 15,000 people - and I'm the only one in the place. It's no big deal. My whole career's been like that.
We raised almost 2 million dollars at the last golf tournament that can be used for minority scholarships and Junior Golf programs. The payoff for the work we do is so much more valuable than the work we actually do for it.
It was important to me to find a label that wouldn't back out after a first single. Everyone's so used to hearing me with Hootie, they're going to be skeptical.
If it wasn't for Kenny Rogers, I don't think I would be in country music. He was that guy when I was a kid - his music and 'Hee Haw' made me perk my ears up and made me say, 'What is this? I want to hear more of that.' He was that catalyst for me to start this whole run in country music.
Ray Charles has always been a big part of my life.
I have major respect for Kenny Chesney and Carrie Underwood and Sugarland. They are wonderful. They're superstars in the music business.
I've played golf since I was fourteen. I like how no two rounds are ever the same. And I get to be out in nature... and hang out with my buddies.
The thing that really gets me about the game is I've never played two rounds that were anywhere close to being the same - ever. Even with the same golf course and setup, nothing is ever the same. I love that about golf.
Romantic stuff is not something I really remember.
I'm always trying to find myself little holes where I can do some songwriting.
Golf is the greatest but most maddening sport there is.
When I'm singing a song, I'm in that song, and I'm thinking about what emotions I should bring to the song. Voicing a character was very similar. It was high energy, and I had to really think about the emotion of what was going on in the scene.
Hearing Radney Foster was big for me, like hearing Al Green or R.E.M. for the first time.
I'll take the kids to school after breakfast. I love doing that - love being a dad.
I've got some great stuff in my sports memorabilia collection. But my favorite thing by far is the robe. I actually have a Ric Flair robe with 'the Nature Boy' on the back. That's awesome. When I look at it, it brings back so many memories of my childhood and my teen years.
That's one of my pet peeves. People always want to put something into a category - this one or that one. You know, a great song is a great song.
If you hear a song and you like it, you like it.
My family lives a pretty normal life.
It seems that with other kind of music, they are looking for the next big thing, but with country music, they might be looking for that, but they also want to have that warm blanket that helped them through that relationship or that singer they have always loved.
I love Christmas. I love the music... I love everything about Christmas. I'm a big fan.
I'm pretty sure I'm gonna stick with country until I ride off in the sunset.
I always say, no matter what happens to me as a black man in country music, I can handle it if Charley Pride could handle all the stuff he went through.
I used to love watching 'Hee Haw' on TV when I was a kid. My brothers and sisters weren't happy about it, but I just loved the music.
I work hard to let my wife know how much I love her. I try to do that every day.
I'm a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and didn't worry about labels or anything. Just wanted to be a success at what I did.
The music I like or the football teams I like or the food I eat has nothing to do with me being black.
I'm lucky my wife is a strong woman. She's one of the stronger people I've ever met. It's hard for me to be away, but I know my home life is fine because my wife is there.
When I was growing up, I always knew that if I ever got anything, I was going to give back as much as I can. I learned that all you have to be willing to do is give your time.
I'm black because I was born this way. I'm proud of it. Thank God I am who I am.
We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.
With 'Wagon Wheel,' I loved the visual it painted, and it's a song I can truly say I look forward to performing every night.
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