John Daly Quotes

I hate golf to be tricked up. To me it's a fun game.

I'm not the most charismatic, maybe emotional, fun-packed individual on the golf course; I get that.

I think you only hold U.S. Opens on great courses.

I've played with amateurs for a million years, and they just don't hit many flush shots.

When you're on a golf course, a couple of things are very interesting. No matter who you're with and who you're playing with, people want each other to do well.

Everyone I built a course for thinks they have the best golf course in the world and I'm very pleased and proud of that.

Well, I think that Augusta is not the same golf course that I grew up on. Bobby Jones' philosophy was giving you space off the tee; if you put it in the right side of the fairway, you ended up getting the right angle to the green.

A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.

But we do have a golf course near by and I play fairly regularly.

The USGA is terrific. I've designed my course in Bedminster to the highest standards of the USGA, and it's a very special course.

Playing from deep grass is a fact of life in professional golf.

Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club.

I experienced American golf courses when I was younger and played a lot of USGA and AJGA tournaments.

I don't follow golf! I don't keep up with golf or know who is coming or going. I am just here to play the game and be done with it.

I've had the luxury of playing golf around the world, and I've spent a lot of time evaluating how to play all kinds of courses.

There are golfers everywhere who may never get a chance to play a links course in Scotland, a tree-lined course in America or the sand belts of Australia. Hopefully I can bring some of those elements into their backyards.

Pace of play has been an issue for golf at all levels for a long time and I'm committed to being a part of the solution, not the problem.

TPC Louisiana, where the Zurich Classic is held, is an outstanding course.

I enjoy hard golf courses.

Part of the attraction to golf may be that it's just a score on the sheet and there's not much you can do about it.

I only properly played golf when I was 15 or 16. The best course I've done? Pebble Beach in California.

When it comes to the golf industry, I know that people see me as a gimmick.

I enjoy traveling and playing some of the well-known courses sometimes, but basically, I have a good time at Barton Creek.

Having played the Old Course many times since my first visit in 1981, I am now of the opinion it is one of the best and most beautiful tests of links golf anywhere in the world.

She hates everything that is not what she longs for.