John Daly Quotes

Golf can be tougher than tennis when things go wrong, because you can't explain things by saying that your opponent played better than you. It's a cruel sport in that way.

I sort of set myself really high standards which is good and bad. If I know that I've done all I can to prepare, that's when I race the best and in '09 I was going through a lot of emotional ups and downs and I was never as fit as I would have liked to have been. So I never felt comfortable.

I think we all have had better days in competition.

Majors are important but so is every other tournament I play.

If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.

A ballplayer doesn't make excuses.

You learn as a player not to listen to the criticism. Many of the people who put out that criticism might not be as accomplished, might not understand the game as well from the inside-out.

So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with... always saying how you deal with good, is just as important as how you deal with bad.

There are always going to be questions - I know that. I'll let my playing answer my questions.

When I go to competitions, I don't have so much confidence that I don't worry or get nervous about the other skaters doing well.

When things aren't going as well as you might like them to be, it's always a question as to whether my personality... fits what an NFL quarterback should be. It's not anything I'm not used to.

A long time ago, a sports reporter wrote that I wasn't strong in the free-skate, that I was more of a short-program skater. And that bothered me because I work so hard every day just for a person to judge me on a couple of bad skates and deem me a bad free skater. That's absurd!

Early in my career, if I didn't get the ball, or if something would happen, or the media would say something, I'd take it personally.

As a player you get scrutinised and rightly so, sometimes it's what comes with a move that I've made. I've just got to take that on the chin and concentrate on me.

I think every time you step on the field you have a certain amount of pressure on you to succeed.

Sometimes I score, sometimes I don't, so people are here to judge, but I know my qualities, and I try to give everything to win and help my team-mates.

I never think that I have to be at top every time. Obviously, I have to do well in every game and series; that's what I try to do. I try to improve and work on the swing and variation in my bowling.

Guys like Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Kevin Garnett, they'll take bad criticism in a good way.

There's always a pressure on performing the best.

I didn't execute to a tee. But my coach always told me if I went out there and did my own thing, it's OK as long as I win.

I know where I'm ranked, but I don't look at it that much, I don't study it that much. You really can't look at it that way, you've got to try to win as many matches as you can, and it's cliche, but you've got to take it one at a time.

He always ran away from the battle with himself. Even in his own heart's privacy, he excused himself, saying, "If she hadn't said so-and-so, it would never have happened.

Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.

In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.

There is hardly any man so strict as not to vary a little from truth when he is to make an excuse.