Garth Brooks Net Worth

Garth Brooks's Quotes

• Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
• We can't thank the Obamas enough for serving this country
• I'll tell you with this whole presidential thing: We got one going out. Pray for him and his family. And for the president going in, pray for him and his family to guide this nation. Let's stay together, Love, unity that's what it's all about.
• Steve Wynn is my brother. I love him to death

Interesting Facts about Garth Brooks

1. Brooks threatened to withhold his albums from stores that sell used CDs, calling the practice "evil". He dropped his boycott after dismal sales of his subsequent album, "In Pieces", forced him to distribute it in the stores he was boycotting. [July 1993]
2. His ex-wife, Sandy Mahl, was his college sweetheart.
3. Is obsessed with brushing his teeth. Claims to have over 80 toothbrushes in his house.
4. He spent the 1999 baseball Spring Training season with the San Diego Padres in Peoria, Arizona.
5. Once ended a television concert by smashing his guitar, and giving the pieces to a huge fan in the front row.
6. Attended Oklahoma State University on a javelin throwing scholarship.
7. Attended and graduated from Yukon High School in Yukon, Oklahoma.
8. Received his degree in advertising from Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma (1984).
9. Parents are Troyal Raymond Brooks Jr. (1931-2010) and Colleen McElroy Carroll (1929-1999).
10. Has scored 18 No. 1 hits on Billboard magazine's Hot Country Singles chart. His biggest hits include "The Dance" and "Friends in Low Places" (both 1990); "The Thunder Rolls" (1991); "What She's Doing Now" (1992); and "Ain't Goin' Down ('Til the Sun Comes Up)" (1993), which was the first song since Glen Campbell's 1975 hit "Rhinestone Cowboy" to spend nonconsecutive weeks at #1 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
11. His fall 2001 single, "Beer Run (B Double-E Double-R You In?)" is a duet with one of his idols, George Jones.
12. Father, with ex-wife Sandy Mahl, of three daughters: Taylor Mayne Pearl Brooks (born July 8, 1992), August Anna Brooks (born May 3, 1994) (hours before Brooks was named entertainer of the year for a fourth consecutive time at the Academy of Country Music Awards), and Allie Colleen Brooks (born July 28, 1996).
13. Brooks filed for divorce in Davidson County Circuit Court (Tennessee), citing irreconcilable differences. [November 2000]
14. Admitted in a Barbara Walters interview that he had cheated on his first wife repeatedly when he went on tour.
15. Announced his retirement. He's the only solo artist to have sold 10 million or more copies of four individual albums, and has publicly announced that he wants to be the first artist to sell 100 million albums. His last album, "Scarecrow", came out on November 13, 2001 (October 26, 2000).
16. Born on the same day as Bon Jovi keyboardist David Bryan.
17. Became engaged to Trisha Yearwood in Bakersfield, California on May 25, 2005.
18. Resides on a farm in Owasso, Oklahoma.
19. Put out a pre-soundtrack album as fictitious character Chris Gaines for the upcoming Paramount rock 'n' roll movie "The Lamb". When the movie's money issues caused production to stop, Garth was left with an album that many did not understand. He was not trying to be someone else as many wrongly assumed and it is still possible that the movie will someday finish production.
20. Recorded a tribute song to his late friend, Chris LeDoux, (who died on March 9, 2005 at age 56) entitled "Good Ride Cowboy", which became his 26th number one hit.