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Aptitude starts with attitude.
Putting is a very personal affair.
I am a winner. I just didn't win today.
Happiness is a long walk with a putter.
You expect success, you respect failure.
Let's do something to wake these people up.
On 18 you've got to drive it up a gnat's ass.
Know your strengths and take advantage of them.
Play the shot you've got the best chance of playing well.
There is no room on the golf course for anger or self-pity.
I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father.
What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough.
You know, like I said, I'm not going to adjust my Senior Tour schedule.
I'm Allergic to grass. Hey, it could be worse. I could be allergic to beer.
If you're serious about improving your play, be brutally honest with yourself.
I don't see myself playing or adjusting my schedule for senior tournament golf.
When you're playing poorly, you start thinking too much. That's when you confuse yourself.
Well, I think any national championship is an extremely important championship to play in.
To me I've just really, really found a relaxed, peaceful side of my life and I'm enjoying it.
When you see that many people with a smile on their face, then you must be doing something right.
Our success is a direct result of knowing how to market a brand and having the right people representing the brand.
You only get out of it what you put into it. If you are a sheep in this world, you're not going to get much out of it.
I've always lived to seize the moment, to squeeze every drop of expectation out of myself for whatever that moment gives you.
If I had won...all those other championships, my life might be totally different, but I didn't win. It's not going to affect my life.
I'm a very intense person. When I go after something, I want to go after it with everything I have. I want to push myself to the edge.
It's not the victories that count to me. It's the quality of how you deliver your losses and the quality of how you deliver your victories.
You don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, but you want to get rid of the bathwater so the baby can swim the next couple of days and be OK.
I always wanted to be the best I could be at whatever I did. I didn't want to be the number one golfer in the world. I just wanted to be as good as I could be.
I think it's great the opportunity is given to all of us really to come out and play major championships after the real major championships have gone beyond us.
I screwed up. It's all on me. I know that...All these hiccups I have, they must be for a reason. All this is just a test. I just don't know what the test is yet.
I mean, I can actually say goodbye to the game of golf, never hit another golf shot the rest of my life and I'd be happy because I can get back in life without any rotation.
My doctor asked me how many golf balls I had hit in my career. I'm lying there in bed calculating somewhere between four and five million golf balls I had hit to do that on my body.
When I turned 50, I said to myself, well, if this is what it's like turning 50, I can't wait to turn 60 because I still felt very, very mentally and physically good, outside my back surgery.
I'm not interested at all in playing more than 12, 15 tournaments a year on an annual basis because like all the old guys out here on this Tour, we've played golf for nearly 30 years of our lives.
I can honestly say in my entire career, I've never gone around a golf course and not mis-hit a shot, but today I never missed a shot. I hit every driver perfect, every iron perfect. I'm in awe of myself.
I wouldn't call it bitter. I think it's just sweet. I've always believed my life seems like it's gotten better and better as each decade has gone by. So I don't see any I don't see any bitterness about it.
Being away for the weekends, and me being the international player that I have been for those 30 years, I've spent a lot more time flying around the world, playing different golf tournaments around the world.
I've really got no complaints about the way I played, just extremely frustrating with the putter and I'm sure there's a lot of other players saying the same thing except the guy who's going to win the golf tournament.
The players have competed on the level the last 25 or 30 years are always going to be the players that compete at a high level. These guys practice hard, they work on their game, they still hit the ball extremely well.
I would say that it's quadruple what I've had when I've won major championships in the past. I've gotten faxes and phone calls from all over the world. It's been overwhelming. It's really changed my opinion of humanity.
Sometimes things work out on the golf course and sometimes they don't. Life will go on. You try to understand what happens, but maybe today I don't want to know. I just screwed up so maybe I should just put it behind me.
Every time you lose, you think that life's unfair. You think of the bad breaks. But when you're winning and playing well, you still get those bad breaks, only you overcome them. It just depends on how strong your mind is.
We've got to abide by the rules. We have to protect it. The game of golf at a professional level is so clean. We are our own judge, jury and executioner. If we don't do what we think is right, the game might get away from us.
You create your own luck by the way you play. There is no such luck as bad luck. Fate has nothing to do with success or failure, because that is a negative philosophy that indicts one's confidence, and I'll have no part of it.
The game of golf doesn't come rushing back to you. Last week I made a couple of fundamental mistakes that I probably wouldn't have made in the heat of the battle back when I was in my heyday, and those things have got to come back.
Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level - neither too low nor too high. A good goal should be lofty enough to inspire hard work, yet realistic enough to provide solid hope of attainment.
I always wanted to be the best I could be at whatever I did. I didn't want to be the number one golfer in the world. I just wanted to be as good as I could be. I work hard, I push myself hard, and I probably even expect too much of myself.
So my game is solid. So that obviously makes me feel confident, that like anybody else in this field, you name them, I feel like I've got the ability to win the golf tournament just as much as they have, and that's the way I'm going to take it.
Obviously it's my second senior event, and I'm tired obviously coming back from the British Open, from surgery, which was priority No. 1, did that successfully, and each week since the British Open I've felt in pretty good control of my golf game.
People in this room must have back problems, I'm sure some of us do, and it is really, really one of the worst pains and debilitating parts of your body that you can actually have because you really can't do anything in your life when you have it.