Fred Couples Quotes

There's no extra significance on beating a certain player. It's kind of like golf. You're just out there playing, and whatever ends up happening ends up happening.

I'm just going to go out and play. At the end of the day, you are still hitting a little white ball with your clubs.

You have to pay a lot of attention to what's important, what's permanent, what's real.

Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.

You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.

I think always staying focused and not taking things too seriously, but taking the important things seriously.

Pay attention to matters of importance.

Golf is important to me. I love the game.

I have always said that I do not pay much attention to what is said. Not to the positive and not to the negative.

The opponent never matters to me. That's something I've always said.

Jill: 'I don't pay attention to politics.' Ben: 'You should. It's barely less important than your own heart beat.' Jill: 'I don't pay attention to that, either.'

The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where you would put it.

The most important things we talk about on Sundays are things to which we pay very little attention.

Everything matters, but nothing matters very much.

I don't care about that. The Green Coat is enough for me.

I don't care about anything I don't need to care about.

There isn't a hole out there [Augusta] that can't be birdied if you just think. But there isn't one that can't be double-bogeyed if you stop thinking.

Pay attention to what you're paying attention to.

What comes into the world to disturb nothing merits neither attention nor patience

Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones.

In the game of life, nothing is less important than the score at halftime.

Normally I didn’t see a great deal. I didn’t hear a great deal either. I didn’t pay attention. Strictly speaking I wasn’t there. Strictly speaking I believe I’ve never been anywhere.

The vast majority of things are distractions, and very few really matter to your success.

I've just discovered the secret of golf. You can't play a really hot game unless you're so miserable that you don't worry over your shots. Take the case of a chip shot, for instance. If you're really wretched, you don't care where the ball is going and so you don't raise your head to see. Grief automatically prevents pressing and over-swinging. Look at the top-notchers. Have you ever seen a happy pro?

I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important.