Rickie Fowler Quotes

Some people thought I'd be on the PGA Tour, that I'd win tournaments, play in majors, contend in majors, win majors. I thought they were crazy.

I've worked so hard, I've won a lot in my junior career, did great things in my amateur career, was 6-0 in match play in NCAAs, won NCAAs two years in a row, got third individually one year, and now I have three wins out here on the PGA Tour.

I turned pro and won Rookie of the Year on the South African Tour and then it took me two tries at the qualifying school on the European Tour and to get my card and the rest is history.

I won the 2007 U.S. Open and 2009 Masters in my late 30s, largely because of my confident driving.

Time management is probably the biggest thing I've had to learn to deal with being on the PGA Tour, whether it be media or figuring out how many weeks to play in a row. That's been the biggest adjustment, coming from amateur and college golf.

Obviously, signing on with Puma right when I turned pro, it's been a great fit for me to show off my colorful lifestyle as far as where I grew up and how I grew up, growing up on a public driving range and growing up around action sports my whole life. Not exactly the normal road that guys take to get to the PGA Tour.

I am very proud of what I have done since I turned professional. It's been great to become the first teenager to win three times, to have played in some Majors and the Masters, and to have twice broken into the world's top 50 and stayed there for a bit of time.

I have aspirations to try and compete professionally. Any golfer that competes in tournaments would be lying if they said they didn't.

Man, I'm in the World Golf Hall of Fame. Don't forget that, now. I'm in the World Golf Hall of Fame with all the players. That little old golf I played was all right, wasn't it?

There are plenty of guys who played great golf, had great careers and only won a few majors.

My ultimate goal is to be the best player in the world. If I'm the best player in the world, I'll be the face of American golf. It will come with the territory. That's where I want to be. If I want to be there, I have a lot of guys I have to beat out, in the U.S. and the world.

I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.

I look at that 10 PGA Tour wins, and I say to myself, 'That's not enough,' and it isn't enough for me. It's just 10. I want more than 10.

I could never have imagined that, so early in my career, that I'd be ticking off boxes that I've dreamed about since I was a little girl.

If you could just turn pro and go immediately to the PGA Tour, that would be one thing. But that's not how it works. And that's not the lifestyle I want.

Race to Dubai winner, playing in Ryder Cups, winning majors - these are all great parts of a career you want to have.

I think being somewhat of a workaholic - and it's not healthy by any stretch - but I think you place your self-worth on your career, and as far as I was concerned, my career was crap.

I've accomplished everything I ever wanted to do in my career.

I've got an awesome career happening, and I absolutely am so stoked with how it's all worked out.

I hope to keep being competitive until I retire, and I hope that's here. It's Barca or nothing.

I don't want to look back on my career at some point and say, 'What a pity, I came close a few times, but it was never good enough.'

I wanna have more majors than Jack Nicklaus.

Whatever I have achieved in the industry is something I consider to be amazing.

The dream for me was always the Masters and after my freshman season on the Houston golf team I knew CBS was the only way I'd get there.

You want to look back on your career and see what you've achieved, not just have a fancy car and a big house.