Stuart Appleby Quotes

At the British Open, I had my opportunities, but the ball just didn't want to go in the hole on the back nine.

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

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.

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

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

Shoot a lower score than everybody else.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I couldn't believe that talk about Jon Jones fighting Lesnar - that would have zero legitimacy. In society, we punish people that do bad things. Why isn't it the same in fighting?

There is no surer or more painful way to learn a rule than to be penalized once for breaking it.

I like it when, you know, 3-under wins, you know, 20-under par, it just brings so many other people into contention.

If you want to act like a butthead, your butt is going to get locked up.

In the early 2000s, I was introduced to the noble art of kickboxing, it thrilled me, and I loved it. I loved the honour and the discipline, and I also loved the punching.

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.

You drive for show but putt for dough.

I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be.

This golf course, you miss a shot a little bit off-line, it's going to bite you.

There is less fighting in the game than we had years ago. I mean, we penalize it.

When I was 15, I decided to take up the sport seriously, so I went down to the Y.M.C.A. My first day there, this little Italian guy beat my brains out. I decided to quit. Then I realized I really wanted to be a fighter. I worked at it, went back, and that little Italian guy didn't beat me up no more.

I just love when I'm playing Northumberland and I'm on the back nine and I see the water and the link bridge.

I think it's what's best for that kid. Are you going to teach that kid a lesson for 10 years down the road by suspending him a game?