John Daly Quotes

It wasn't until last year that I figured out the problem: I just don't love competitive golf. What I love is the game itself. I love being outdoors, practicing, and smelling the freshly cut grass at 6:00 a.m. as the sun rises. But I didn't love travel, or pressure, or the mean-spiritedness of my competitors.

This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.

I've always said the players don't build up rivalries themselves, people from the outside build up the rivalries. I just want to play good golf. I want to try and keep winning golf tournaments.

I've had opportunities. But winning a major is not only about playing well. It's about having 'winner's luck.' I had winner's luck in 1999 at Medinah, but it didn't take me all the way.

If professionalism in golf equals athleticism, then athleticism should be promoted and showcased, and that means allowing the clothes that promote it.

Putting allows the touchy golfer two to four opportunities to blow a gasket in the short space of two to forty feet.

No putt is too short to be despised.

If everyone were like him (Mitch Williams) I wouldn't play. I'd find a safer way to make a living.

I think today's athletes generally are spoiled by what's happened to salaries, but I also think that golfers have maintained the best demeanor of any sport.

Аs long as I've got an audience out there to play for, I'm going to continue to play. I have at least enough people that I can go out on the road for 10, 11 weeks at a time.

I was very combative as a creative person at that time [while The Ben Stiller Show]. I didn't understand how to play politics with the studios. I didn't know how to creatively collaborate with the people who were paying the bills, and that came up all the time on every project I was doing, and it took me a really long time to figure out how to collaborate in a healthy way.

Dr. Parent has been a great influence on my mental game. ZEN GOLF is the best book at connecting golf and the mind together. It's for everyone, it really helps, and you're really going to enjoy it.

Faldo has lost a lot of respect from players because of what he said.

I'm a tough guy, but I'm a good guy, I'm durable because when you play football they want you being tough, not just because you sprain your ankle crying "Mama, mama!"

"Play it as it lies" is one of the fundamental dictates of golf

I feel like I've always played within the rules. I would never do anything to break the rules. I believe in fair play.

If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it.

Most people who play golf have one big trouble: they think too much. To get any real mileage out of this game you've got to sit on your imagination.

If Tiger Woods slamming his club into the ground is the biggest worry wehave, our sport isinprettygood shape.

Each one of us, as long as life stirs is us, may play a part in extricating ourselves from the power system by asserting our primacy as people in quiet acts of mental or physical withdrawal-in gestures of non-conformity, in abstentions, restrictions, inhibitions, which will liberate us from the domination of the pentagon of power.

In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.

I had always suspected that trying to play golf in the company of big-time pros and a gallery would be something like walking naked into choir practice.

People ask me, 'Would you ever want to play professional golf?' And I'm like, 'No. No, no, no, no. Just because I can hit a good shot every now and then doesn't make me a pro.'

Playing well or playing bad, I have to play aggressive. I must play aggressive.

The rewards of golf, and of life too I expect, are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules.