Nick Saban Quotes

It's so hard to make a good tee shot after a birdie.

It's kind of exciting again. I'm doing everything right, right now. I'm driving the ball well and I'm hitting some pretty good irons and giving myself opportunities.

The name of the game is put the ball in the hole.

You've got so much confidence if you start making big putts because you know you just need to hit the greens, and you've got yourself a good opportunity for the birdies.

You just have to drive it in the fairways. If you miss fairways, it's easy to make big numbers.

You know what's funny, I really hate Par 3's. I feel like you have to be perfect from jumpstreet. But on Par 5's, you can mess up a little bit, but you still have time to adjust before you get to the hole and still end up with a birdie or a par.

Golf is a game in which you yell 'fore,' shoot six, and write down five.

You can't really measure your game. You can shoot seven under and lose and you can shoot even and win.

Chad was in the right spot. He got a little aggressive with the third shot there. He probably didn't want that putt he had there for the par. And you don't want to put it back there where Casey and Sergio did because you have 20 feet of break there.

You drive for show but putt for dough.

Obviously, the good thing about golf, it's difficult to really, really blow it after five holes unless it goes really, really, really... really, really, really wrong. But you still have 13 to go, and if you have a good run, where you make five or six birdies, you can get it back somehow.

I hope we've got a lot of fairways and greens. We'll go from there.

Being in the fairway, I think the fairways are a little bit more overrated.

On a par 5, I can shoot a six. And on a par 3, I can shoot a six, too!

Every time you tee off as a professional golfer, whether people say it or not, your first prerogative is to make the cut. You can't win if you don't make the cut.

In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.

All my life, I've been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I've come is a bogey.

Elmcrest CC, in Cedar Rapids, is where it all started when I was growing up. The tree-lined course has a very demanding layout that requires you to be accurate off the tee and avoid a number of well-placed water hazards on some of the holes.

At Pebble Beach, even on your good shots, you've got to hit it to the correct side of the holes to save pars.

Every shot feels like the first shot of the day. If I'm on the range hitting shot after shot, I can hit them just as good as I did when I was 30. But out on the course, your body changes between shots. You get out of the cart, and you've got this 170-yard 5-iron over a bunker, and it goes about 138.

I'm sure you have a hole at your course where you love to hit the tee shot. You can't wait to get up there and bomb away because the fairway is wide, or the hole always plays downwind.

I'm patient with crossword puzzles and the most impatient golfer.

I've always been a good ball-striker, but if you're not a great putter, you're not going to win a lot.

Obviously, if you make birdies, you can move up quickly.

I make a lot of bogeys and a lot of birdies.