I love to fish. You can go hours without anything happening, and all of a sudden a big blue marlin comes into the spread and it's cockpit chaos. My dream is to catch a grander, a 1,000 pounder.

He also was named as the CMA's Top Male Vocalist in 1997 and 1998. Strait also holds those same records for wins and nominations for the ACM Awards.  1 hits than any other artist in any genre.

His highest certified album is Strait Out of the Box (1995) which sold 2 million copies (8× Multi-Platinum due to being a box set with four CDs). He is known for his unique style of western swing music bar-room ballads honky-tonk style and fresh yet traditional country music. George Strait holds the world record for more number-one hit singles than any other artist in the history of music on any chart or in any genre having recorded 59 number-one hit singles as of 2012.