There's a lot of stuff I thought I'd do in the world, but I never thought I'd have a street named after me in my hometown. It's a great feeling.
— Darius Rucker
I've gotten to play so many of the great courses around the country and overseas. Sometimes it pays to be the golf guy. People always want to take me to the golf course. I love it.
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.
For me, the Mount Rushmore of greats would be Ric Flair, Dusty Rhodes, Hulk Hogan, Bruno Sammartino or Lou Thesz. You can do either one of them in that fourth spot. But I think Ric Flair is the greatest of all time. He's the greatest I've ever seen... on the mic and in the ring.
Ric Flair was such a huge part of my childhood and teen years. He's an icon.
Getting people to come play my 'Darius and Friends Show' was so easy because it's for St. Jude, and that's a great thing.
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.
I'll take the kids to school after breakfast. I love doing that - love being a dad.
If you hear a song and you like it, you like it.
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.
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.
I always tell people, the first time I heard 'She Talks To Angels,' those lyrics did something to me.
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.
It's about the music, not the color of the person playing the music.
Golf is the greatest but most maddening sport there is.
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.
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.
My kids don't care about anything. I'm just Dad to them. They don't get excited about anything.
There's nothing like sitting and watching the Masters on TV.
School was very important to me ,and music was what kept me coming back.
I was an 8-year-old who loved wrestling and watched it religiously every Saturday at one o'clock.
I'm going to make country records back to back for a while - until country radio doesn't want me anymore or until I get my own theater in Branson - one of the two.
The other guys in Hootie were into rock. I brought the country influence.
I love Hootie & the Blowfish and what we do, but that's not my main focus anymore.
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.
I'm black because I was born this way. I'm proud of it. Thank God I am who I am.
I love Christmas. I love the music... I love everything about Christmas. I'm a big fan.
At the end of the day, I'm a fan of great stories and great songs.
One of the things that I'm dying to do is to sing the hook on a big rap song.
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.
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!
Romantic stuff is not something I really remember.
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.
I'm pretty sure I'm gonna stick with country until I ride off in the sunset.
If my music career was my golf game, I'd be playing for about 26 people tonight somewhere.
I'm such a lover of golf, and I've been at the Masters a couple times, and I've been so blessed to get to play there.
Music education was always big for me. Ever since I was a young kid, I always said it was the reason I went to school sometimes and knowing if I didn't do well in class that my mom wasn't gonna let me sing in school or sing at that concert.
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.
I grew up in South Carolina. A lot of what I remember back in the day is AM radio. When I was a kid, you could hear Stevie Wonder and Buck Owens on the same station. All the walls and lines between music were taken down for me.
Hearing Radney Foster was big for me, like hearing Al Green or R.E.M. for the first time.
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.
One of the great reasons to be in Nashville is, you get guys like Shane McAnally to write songs with.
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 always trying to find myself little holes where I can do some songwriting.
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.
When you're doing a Motley Crue tribute record, you can ask anyone to do it, and they're not going to say no.
Whether you are on stage or playing golf, all it takes is one person to throw everything off.
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.
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.
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.
