Zach Johnson Quotes

Looking back, as far as looking when I was a kid and what I dreamed about doing as far as playing on the PGA Tour and winning on tour, I've got those taken care of.

I wanted to become good at golf because I saw a lot of really successful people being good at it - and I planned on being successful.

I think Tiger Woods is a determined young man who really wants to play.

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

I just feel like I have a lot to prove.

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

I never think I am successful. If I am successful, then I should be retired.

If you get depressed about being the second-best team in the world, then you've got a problem.

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

I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.

It's a really scary thing, having your dreams come true and seeing everything you ever wanted happening, getting the attention for it and then not knowing how to handle it properly.

There is so much I want to do in women's golf, and I'm living my dream.

It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.

I've always had a loud mouth, and for that I've gotten a lot of attention. I did falter in some big competitions in my career, but being counted out and not being seen as a threat is something I'm used to.

I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.

I have so much to live up to as well as live down.

I guess I don't have a grandiose view of the world in general, and I never believe it when someone else has a grandiose moment.

When you're losing, there's that survival instinct. But when you're handling success, people think it's easier, and they think losing's harder. But handling success, to me, always creates more issues. Are you in touch with reality? With perception?

I got a lot of notoriety early on. Much of my career I was just trying to prove I was as good as the world thought I was.

The questions that loom can be intimidating. 'What kind of moves is she gonna make? What is she gonna do?' There is this pressure that you're supposed to keep impressing.

I don't have to prove anything else in this MMA world.

If you win, everyone asks what's your secret, when most of the time you did exactly the same in the ones you lost.

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 knew no matter how good I did, no matter everything that I pushed for, there's always gonna be some type of doubt. Some people want to put limitations on what I can do.

I don't know why, but despite winning how many world championships, how many Tour stages, and being 31 years old, some people still thought I had to prove myself, you know. So I had to do the Track Worlds to try to prove myself.