I really want people to know that I've worked hard, very hard, to get to where I am today.. this didn't just happen overnight. I started in business over 25 years ago and have found a way to build on what I've learned through every partnership and opportunity.

My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.

ObamaCare is working. I talk to a lot of CEOs of hospitals. It is working.

I'm glad that Gov. Scott down in Florida accepted ObamaCare, because it will work.

Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.

It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.

Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players. I picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work hard and had the desire to be great.

Don't give up! Be friends with people who help you work hard.

I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.

I think it's always important to constantly keep the band on their toes and try new things that you hope will work. That's how 'Apologize' was born, and maybe down the line another little song will be born by that mentality. I've always really liked that song.

A lot of people don't have near the amount of success as I've been blessed to have, and it's all about working hard and hoping that continues.

You always have to work to become a better singer, songwriter and performer.

That's the beauty of country music - you have to get out there and earn it and work hard. And when you're on the road with big name acts, you realize there's no easy way to the 'Promised Land' in this business.

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

We rushed to Haiti. We Adopt in Asia. We empathize with Africa. But struggle to humanize our struggles here in the states.

“Either you run the day or the day runs you.” 

You already feel unsure of yourself, and then you see your worst fears in print. It really knocked me - which is why, I think, I was working, working, working, because I was trying to run away from the fact that I thought I couldn't do it.

"Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work."

"A lot of defense is just want, just wanting to do it. It's hard work. You get tired, you've got to be able to defend and that's what we're working on. But they're working at it. It's not something that's going to happen overnight. Team defense takes a while to develop."

"But these are small troubles, people will say. Yes, but they are drops which wear hollows in the rock."

"When all my hard work is getting recognized. It makes me work even harder."

"Try a little harder to be a little better."

"Pretty high. It's fun to see that all of the hard work that Hank and I have been putting into it is starting to pay off."

"I'm used to all kinds of hard work, as you know. I'm not afraid whatsoever."