Fred Couples Quotes

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.

I started playing golf because I wanted to be good. After a while, you have to come to a decision of, 'Am I good enough or not?' If you say 'yes,' then it's a simple step towards deciding to be as good as you can be.

In my life, I'd like to play more golf and, and get a decent handicap.

I sort of play golf because a lot of my friends are into it, but I'm awful - my handicap is about six or seven thousand.

The next time I cry about golf it will only be with joy. It's not worth crying over golf for any other reason. After all, it's only a game.

I always thought of myself as some sort of athlete until I started playing golf a couple years ago.

There is nothing in this game of golf that can't be improved upon if you practice.

My driving and irons are the best part of my game. Growing to be 5-foot-11 has certainly helped.

I play golf - badly.

See, as much as I love the game, golf was my vehicle to competition. And I love to compete.

Pretty it's pretty good for me because I'm over here in the winters. It's really improved my golf game.

My boring, mundane, diligent kind of golf works sometimes. Actually, it works all the time. And sometimes, on the greatest stages, it really does flourish.

To have the opportunity to work with Tiger Woods was just so awesome. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the challenge. I enjoyed the good parts where he was winning. And I enjoyed the challenge to help him get better. But six years was enough.

There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks.

I want to keep playing good golf.

I feel like I've improved at everything I've done every single year - except golf. Golf, I've managed to stay exactly the same.

My golf game is lacking big time.

I think I shot 78 one time. My golf game is so overrated.

It's no secret that I'm a fan of hitting a lot of balls.

If I can figure out this wedge stuff and become a really good wedger, I'll be the number-one player in the world.

I see things written about the golf swing that I can't believe will work except by accident .

It takes six years to make a golfer: three to learn the game, then another three to unlearn all you have learned in the first three years. You might be a golfer when you arrive at that stage, but more likely you are just starting.

If a man can shoot 10 birdies, there's no reason why he can't shoot 18. Why can't you birdie every hole on the course?

President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner have agreed to play a round of golf together. Imagine the two of them at the end of that golf game? Boehner will be crying over his score and Obama will be giving three explanations as to why his score is actually better than it appears.

I've said a thousand times, you can't go into a shop and buy a good golf game.