Gord Downie Quotes

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

Luck is the residue of design.

Golf is not easy.

A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.

I love putting. I love to practice my short game.

If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.

Sometimes the pass is perfect, but you can't shoot the puck. Sometimes it's a bad pass and you do a good shot.

Golf is a whole different sport, a whole different challenge, everything.

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course

I don’t mind the low probability of success, but it better be impactful if we do succeed.

All I can do is do my best work, try to create the best kind of moment to moment reality that I can do. That's what I do. I'm an actor. And all the rest of it is like baseball. You hit the ball. Sometimes it goes in the hole. Sometimes it goes to the player.

You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.

The only way you can influence your fate is to put your soul into your performance and hope it registers with the audience.

If you win a race, you don't ask how you did it, as long as you do it.

The more I practice, the luckier I get.

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.

The more I practice the luckier I get.

In the end, the work shows if you're good.

Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.

I like trying to win. That's what golf is all about.

I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.

Actually, I'm a very good golfer.