Billy Casper Quotes

Think ahead. Golf is a next-shot game.

Play the shot you've got the best chance of playing well.

Think of golf as chess. You have to think two or three moves ahead every time you hit the ball. Over every shot, you should be thinking, 'Where do I need to put this ball in order to make my next shot as easy as possible.

But I'd say that probably 70 percent of the bunkering is more to give you an idea of the direction that you want to go or to save your ball from going into worse places.

I'm a tennis fan, so I like Roger Federer. He's always two or three steps ahead, so he's hitting a shot, but he's also thinking about the next two shots. So I try to be in that frame of mind - to always be ahead.

Golf is a percentage game, and I play the percentages.

Don't just play your way around the course. Think your way around way around the course.

Certainly, if you can't manage your game, you can't play tournament golf. You continually have to ask yourself what club to play, where to aim it, whether to accept a safe par or to try to go for a birdie. You can't play every hole the same way. I never could.

Mary Joe Fernandez rarely has a bad loss. She never tries for stupid shots.

Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.

Golf is a thinking man's game. You can have all the shots in the bag, but if you don't know what to do with them, you've got troubles.

I learned that round four of a major is really not too much different than rounds one through three. I didn't keep to my game plan in the '08 U.S. Women's Open for the final round. That won't happen again!

In doing everything, from coming up with the ideas and putting them on paper till doing the final edits, you are always thinking the next three steps, you're always thinking what next, what next, what next?

I have to think about the future because, not that I'm bored with it now, but I can't live now, it's not my place to live now. I've got to live ahead of myself.

I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are coming at us.

In the business world, if you're not looking ahead, you're missing something.

Don't play for one run unless you know that run will win a ballgame.

I'm always good at seeing five, ten steps ahead. Like, really thinking ahead, you know? Reverse engineering, whatever it is, you know.

I was always trying to stay one to two steps ahead of the game.

The goals will come; we just have to think about working ahead of the next game.

You always look ahead to what you'll do next.

We need to be able to answer not yesterday's challenges but to tomorrow's challenges.

When I plan ahead, I don't just plan what I'm doing tomorrow. I also plan what I'm doing five years from now.

The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead.

The two most fundamental strategic choices are deciding where to play and how to win.