Fred Couples Quotes

Everybody teaches a system. I just try to shoot where I'm aiming. I play by sight and feel not by technical thoughts.

As far as swing and techniques are concerned, I don't know diddly squat. When I'm playing well, I don't even take aim.

I just play, that's all. When I'm in the field, I always connect with what I'm doing. I can't explain it. I can't control it. It just happens.

A lot of times, my best games are when I'm not even thinking.

I think the people that are best at something, they don't think about it much. That's the whole key to being good at anything.

When I'm in my groove there is no thinking. Everything just happens.

When I write an email where I outlined a whole scene, it just came out of my unconscious, it comes from a deeper place. The same thing happens when the actors go, take after take, and just get lost in it. When you're in a house, you don't think about being in the house; you're just there.

I believe that one version of the good in life can be defined by the moments I sometimes had playing tennis as a sixteen-year-old. You'd be out on the court and for an hour, two hours, sometimes an entire roasting hot day, and every single thing you hit would go in. Hit that ball as hard as you wanted, wherever you wanted, and it went in.

Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.

There is a part of your brain that has to stop when you're acting. You have to be in the moment and dare to fly. Words can't be on your mind.

Things slow down, the ball seems a lot bigger and you feel like you have more time. Everything computes - you have options, but you always take the right one.

Genius is a grace. The true man of genius acts by movement or by impulsion.

Honestly I just shoot the ball and it goes in.

I don't think about technique. I just pot the balls.

I try and watch the ball closely. I've played the game for many years now, and I know my talent will take over if I just watch the ball and enjoy myself out there.

I know my talents well - I know my head well - so when I go onto the pitch, I know perfectly what I have to do.

When you're out there and playing, things are going fast. You've just got to trust your instincts and what got you there.

In a moment, or type of pressure, you just go out, and I play like I always do. Because it's a big moment, I'm not going to shy away and not show my talents. I'll show what I can do and show it every game.

If you have an open shot, and you're a shooter, and you've put hours and hours on the practice court shooting the ball, you shoot the ball in the game. It's just that simple.

I like to think I'll be quite instinctive as a leader.

The more reps you get, the more you calm down and the less thinking you're doing. Then you just go out and play.

In any sport, you're at your best when you're playing without thinking too much.

I'm a good putter. Like good shooters, just keep shooting. I'm just going to keep putting, and they're going to start going in.

For me, I've just got to go out there, not overthink things, just play within myself and just allow the game to come me.

There's no emotion. I just see the gap and, instinctively, go for it.