Matt Kuchar Quotes

My memory is quite good, except when I'm off stage.

You can have all the experience in the world and come out and not play well.

You look at players who are off form and there's a general disappointment, their confidence goes low and their whole demeanour can change. I've seen it hundreds of times but it's difficult to know what's really going on inside someone's mind.

I have played in matches where individuals have frozen and gone into their shells: they don't want the ball, they don't communicate, and they don't do their jobs. Fear turns them to stone.

As a batter, I just try to put myself in a bubble, not letting anything in from the outside, looking only at how many runs I can score.

It's difficult losing, but it's even more difficult when you didn't make a shot. I could see the ball just didn't go your way on an out-of-bounds play or something like that, but when you're just not making them, it's frustrating.

I find it hard to watch a lot of the kind of things I'm doing before doing it. I don't think it's helpful for me. It makes me too aware.

I think when I start thinking about results, I stop playing the right way because I start getting too nervous.

For my TakeOver matches, I was always just a huge mess, a huge ball of nerves.

I feel like it's harder because everyone knows I'm the three-time world champion - it's almost like people are waiting for something bad to happen.

I haven't watched a lot of football at all. Easiest thing for me was to take my mind away from the game all together and focus on the things that I need to get right. And football wasn't one of those things.

I just thought at Wimbledon I was very nervous.

I'm not worried about the Masters. I never worry about this tournament or that tournament.

Sometimes you don't play well or you don't score, and in those times, the pressure comes from all around you as well as from yourself.

It's impossible, when one team and one player is afraid of something that might happen in a match, they will not play well, they will not have 100 per cent confidence.

And I think before I was so focused on speed or I was so focused on trying to hit this great putt that I just wasn't reacting to what I was doing. I react when I hit an iron shot, why can't I do that when I'm over the putter?

I think when it's a high-stress situation, my tennis definitely takes a big dip.

I think anytime you put the weight of the world on yourself saying, 'I have to perform,' or, 'I have to get a completion. I have to throw a touchdown,' nine times out of 10, I think you're going to fail.

In the beginning, I thought the Federer comparisons were cool, but after a while, I wasn't happy with it. It's not the best thing you can hear as you're trying to develop, as it puts extra pressure on a young kid.

However much I try, I can't shake off the effects of the yips.

The favourites and the stronger teams have a lot of pressure during the group phase because everybody just takes it for granted that they will reach the round of 16.

I believe all teams choke in certain situations.

It's hard to play with any kind of confidence when you feel like if you miss one shot, if you make one mistake, you're getting pulled.

You can put too much pressure on yourself. You can start forcing balls, maybe trying too hard. You make things too complicated.

Forgetting stuff is just human, especially when other things are on our minds.