David Duval Quotes

Sometimes, I play a round of extremely poor golf.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.

Confidence comes from knowing what you're doing. If you are prepared for something, you usually do it. If not, you usually fall flat on your face.

I think I have a lot to offer.

Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.

You need to know a lot to become master of your profession.

It doesn't matter what you look like. Experience is the key.

Whatever faults I may have, I do know a player.

I have a great amount of enthusiasm, and I am a man who knows how to do this job inside out because of the experience I've gained over the years.

Success is really about expertise.

You can't teach court savvy

In this league, experience means a lot.

You cannot experience yourself as what you are until you've encountered what you are not

You have to be a master to teach.

The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.

I've studied golf for almost 50 years now and know a hell of a lot about nothing.

We must be warriors in the struggle against ignorance

The body must be credited with an immense fund of know-how.

The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.

Until you've tasted it [anything], you can't really know it.

Knowledge must become capability.

You take the senses away, and there is no consciousness. Consciousness comes from experience.

Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every talent--science, mathematics, energy, history, experience--and the more experience you have, the less likely are your experiments to end in drivel and disaster. The more you know, the more you can create.

An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.