Golfer Quotes

I believe nicotine plus caffeine equals protein.

I don't think I've ever stepped into a gym - they won't let me smoke there.

I just thank God Miller Lite isn't as fattening as most beers. If I cut back on beer, though, I'd look anorexic.

I look into eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking, I am going to bury you.

Everyone has addictions and my problem is that I have 5,000 of them.

If it's not drinking, it's gambling; if it's not gambling, it's eating anything from burgers, doughnuts to M&Ms. The only addiction I don't suffer from is chasing women.

This fitness thing is blown out of proportion.

What am I going to do on a treadmill - smoke a cigarette and drink a diet Coke?

There are probably some things I could do to keep my flexibility up, but I'd rather smoke, drink diet Cokes and eat.

I wasn't this nervous playing golf when I was drinking.

It's the first tournament I've won on the PGA Tour in a sober manner, so it's a great feeling knowing I can do it sober. I don't think two years ago I could have pulled this off.

Winners see what they want. Losers see what they don't want. Don't let the game eat you; you eat the game.

I've got the drinkers and the smokers and the eaters on my side.

To give yourself the best possible chance of playing to your potential, you must prepare for every eventuality. That means practice.

Most change initiatives either fail or fall far short of original (perhaps unrealistic) expectations. More often than not, resistance is cultural in nature, the result of what James O'Toole so aptly characterizes as "the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom."

I'd like to see the fairways more narrow.

Then everybody would have to play from the rough, not just me.

I can tell you one thing. I've done this my way. I don't have anybody to blame for this win but me, and I love it.

You know I need that cockiness, the self-belief, arrogance, swagger, whatever you want to call it, I need that on the golf course to bring the best out of myself. So you know once I leave the golf course, you know that all gets left there.

One of the most fascinating things about golf is how it reflects the cycle of life. No matter what you shoot - the next day you have to go back to the first tee and begin all over again and make yourself into something.

I don't care what anybody says. The first tournament is not the hardest one to win. It's always the second one.

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.

Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum.

A hole in one is amazing when you think of the different universes this white mass of molecules has to pass through on its way to the hole.

You know what they say about big hitters...the woods are full of them.

My dad taught me to be a leader or a follower, and he said follower ain't fun.

So I want to be the leader of Bubba Watson.

It's a dream come true for Bubba Watson from Bagdad, Florida to have the green jacket on.

I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.

Golf is like love. One day you think you are too old and the next day you want to do it again.

Nothing goes down slower than a golf handicap.

I have a good team around me. I have people I trust around me. If I go the wrong way, they will yell at me. Just as they have in the past.

The more I practice, the luckier I get.

Golf is a non-violent game played violently from within.

Golf is the only sport I know of where a player pays for every mistake.

A man can muff a serve in tennis, miss a strike in baseball, or throw an incomplete pass in football and still have another chance to square himself. In golf, every swing counts against you.

Confidence is everything. From there, it's a small step to winning.

A good player who is a great putter is a match for any golfer.

A great hitter who cannot putt is a match for no one.

Golf's three ugliest words: still your shot.

It's so bad I could putt off a tabletop and still leave the ball halfway down the leg.

My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.

Golf is a game you can never get too good at.

You can improve, but you can never get to where you master the game.

Golf is just a game - and an idiotic game most of the time.

I didn't miss the putt. I made the putt. The ball missed the hole.

Yeah, after each of my downhill putts.

If I can hit a curveball, why can't I hit a ball that is standing still on a course?

Seve Ballesteros was a million percent the best Ryder Cupper on either side of Europe and America.

Golf isn't like other sports where you can take a player out if he's having a bad day. You have to play the whole game.

The right way to play golf is to go up and hit the bloody thing.

Most recently, I learned another hobby: baking.

It's so much fun to mix all the ingredients and to see the cake come out nice. It's so rewarding when the cake comes out great and tastes great.

They say I get into too many bunkers. But is no problem. I am the best bunker player.

Stories match the way our species thinks.

Equally important, stories are something we share - everyone everywhere tells stories and oddly enough, in the same way. It all probably started around some campfire a million years ago.

You build a golf game like you build a wall, one brick at a time.

Watching Phil Mickelson play golf is like watching a drunk chasing a balloon near the edge of a cliff.

Many survivors insist they're not courageous: 'If I were courageous I would have stopped the abuse.' 'If I were courageous, I wouldn't be scared'...Most of us have it mixed up. You don't start with courage and then face fear. You become courageous because you face your fear.

It's not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose.

The world's No. 1 tennis player spends 90 percent of his time winning, while the world's No. 1 golfer spends 90 percent of his time losing. Golfers are great losers.