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Golf's Holy Grail - a genius course.
I was always known as the 'Desert Fox.'
For me, 'choking' is just another term in golf.
Sports are 90% inspiration and 10% perspiration.
If I had been in the gallery, I'd have gone home.
If you don't like my announcing, you don't like me.
I was always groomed by my dad to win the U.S. Open.
I played so bad, I got a get-well card from the IRS.
I usually listen to my gut, so to speak, and my wife.
The dollars aren't so important... once you have them.
Look, I'm not trying to be critical when I'm on the air.
Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.
Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.
The mental aspect of golf is what makes golf such a great sport.
Nobody ever heard Jack Nicklaus say 'I don't know' about anything.
I was tough on myself when I didn't finish off a tournament right.
Nobody ever heard Jack Nicklaus say "I don't know" about anything.
Golf is the greatest sport of all to see if you can handle pressure.
In golf, 'close' is like the north and south rim of the Grand Canyon.
It's been a great run. I've done everything I can do announcing wise.
Tiger's swing when he won the Masters by 12 shots - I loved that swing.
Everybody has some part of their game that is easily influenced to choke.
It's not what you accomplish in life that matters; it's what you overcome.
Most announcers play pattycake, pattycake with the players they're covering.
I've always felt how players handle the pressure was the most interesting part of golf.
I've played with amateurs for a million years, and they just don't hit many flush shots.
Seve wore his emotions on his sleeve. You could see how much the guy cared about winning.
I grew up in an era where the perfect drive was a line drive, with quite a bit more spin.
There are plenty of guys who played great golf, had great careers and only won a few majors.
Match play really exposes your character and how much of a will to win you have in your heart.
NBC sort of let me do my thing. They never told me what to say and what not to say. It was pretty weird.
I don't think anywhere is there a symbiotic relationship between caddie and player like there is in golf.
All my friends were retiring, and it got to the point where I was like, 'Hey, how come I'm not retiring?'
I always felt that I would rather be out fishing or home with my family than at some cocktail party with a group of VIPs.
You can be a guy who won 18 majors, but that doesn't mean you'll be a great Ryder Cupper. That's the rarest golf there is.
The hardest weeks for me are when I get to a course that I've never been to before or one that has been through a redesign.
When Nicklaus plays wells well, he wins. When he plays badly, he finishes second. When he plays terribly, he finishes third.
I never really wanted to be No. 1 and a big shot, have people playing up to me all the time. I wasn't comfortable with any of it.
When I was at my peak, I would go into streaks where I felt like it was almost magic, that I could knock down the pin from anywhere with my irons.
It's not so much what you accomplish in life that really matters, but what you overcome that proves who you are, what you are, and whether you are a champion.
I remember, when I won at Tucson by nine shots in 1975, I would say the average iron shot I hit that week was no more than two feet off line. It was unbelievable.
I've had two lives. The golfing part... the younger generation sort of heard about me but maybe didn't realize I wasn't too bad at times. Then the announcing part.
I try to really say what I think is happening, and I'm pretty forthright. I obviously hold back some things. But pretty much, what I see and feel, I say on the air.
When people pick the best drivers of all time, nobody ever picks Lee Trevino. But when he played, like at Tanglewood at the '74 PGA, he missed one fairway in 72 holes.
Every day I try to tell myself that this is going to be fun today. I try to put myself in a great frame of mind before I go out - then I screw it up with the first shot.
Pebble is a piece of sacred ground. They say it's the greatest meeting of land and water in the world. This course was heaven designed - just the way it fits on the land.
If you are a bad putter, you will not make a putt. If you have a tendency to chili-dip wedges, you'll be chili-dipping them all over the place for sure. Whatever your weakness, it will come up in spades during the Ryder Cup.
I do like to point out the trick putts, the ones that look like they go one way but actually go another. I think the audience likes to know when a putt looks like it's two inches outside left, but it's actually two inches outside right.
People need to know that when I was interviewed when I played, I would really pat myself on the back when I did well and tell you how good I was playing, but I'd also tell you when I choked or I was playing terrible. I told it like it was.
I don't want to brag, but I do more homework on the course than any other announcer. I chart the greens to get all the breaks. I walk down into the greenside bunkers. I walk into the fairway bunkers to see whether a player can reach the green from them.