Sergio Garcia Quotes

It's kind of exciting again. I'm doing everything right, right now. I'm driving the ball well and I'm hitting some pretty good irons and giving myself opportunities.

You can't really measure your game. You can shoot seven under and lose and you can shoot even and win.

It's so hard to make a good tee shot after a birdie.

Elmcrest CC, in Cedar Rapids, is where it all started when I was growing up. The tree-lined course has a very demanding layout that requires you to be accurate off the tee and avoid a number of well-placed water hazards on some of the holes.

On a par 5, I can shoot a six. And on a par 3, I can shoot a six, too!

You know what's funny, I really hate Par 3's. I feel like you have to be perfect from jumpstreet. But on Par 5's, you can mess up a little bit, but you still have time to adjust before you get to the hole and still end up with a birdie or a par.

Obviously, if you make birdies, you can move up quickly.

You've got so much confidence if you start making big putts because you know you just need to hit the greens, and you've got yourself a good opportunity for the birdies.

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

Golf is a game in which you yell 'fore,' shoot six, and write down five.

At Pebble Beach, even on your good shots, you've got to hit it to the correct side of the holes to save pars.

The name of the game is put the ball in the hole.

Every time you tee off as a professional golfer, whether people say it or not, your first prerogative is to make the cut. You can't win if you don't make the cut.

I don't remember too many rounds where you get shots given to you. Usually, ones are taken away.

At the British Open, I had my opportunities, but the ball just didn't want to go in the hole on the back nine.

My golf score is really bad. I don't know. I'm definitely not a good golfer. Off the tee box, I can drive it about 275, and I'm in the fairway about 99% of the time. It's my next shot that needs work.

Shoot a lower score than everybody else.

I hope we've got a lot of fairways and greens. We'll go from there.

I don't know how many times I've been 114 yards from the hole and made double bogey. Well, I hit a great drive, but it doesn't matter. It's only the next shot that matters.

Whether you're driving it short or you drive it far, you got to be in the fairway because the rough's brutal, and if you get out of the rough into some of these bunkers, you can get some funky lies.

The par putts sometimes are bigger than the birdie putts.

In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.

The first time I played a PGA Tour event at Tucson was 1975. I came off the course on Sunday feeling very good about myself. I'd finished at even par, and I knew I could play even better if I worked at it.

Golf is a game to me. Other players work extremely hard all year long. I work hard before Augusta. I know I get good results when I practice, but it also wears me out. It literally wore me out even when I was in my 20s.

Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.