Tom Watson Quotes (65 Quotes)

Golf will grow so long as it's fun.

Bruce has been a good friend, a good companion and we've been a good team. He's also got a great sense of humor.

I'm very grateful to have been able to make those critical putts at the right time. The greens tested your skill with the flat stick. I finally got used to in the last round.

That's what I'm out here to do. Compete and win. It makes the winter months a whole lot better.

Hale has dominated this tour. Probably the only reason I came out of last year as Player of the Year wasbecauseIrwin's back went out on him at the U.S. open and he couldn't play for a while. He's the cream of the crop out here.

Today was uneventful, I hit very little close and when I did nothing went in. I need to have a good putting day to have a chance and salvage the tournament.

I had my troubles today. It was just one of those days I played a little sloppy.

We'll have an idea on how to prioritize each one of these items. Taking some off the table completely, and see if there's an opportunity to add anything to the project list.

The last time he spoke with Bruce face-to-face was a few weeks ago at Bay Hill. We talked about death and the fear of death, ... He said he was not afraid to die. And I said, you know, I'm not afraid, either. I believe there are other dimensions beyond the dimensions in which we live.

We tournament golfers are much overrated. We get paid to much.

It's really kind of rough right there, and I think that will add a lot to that corner, ... When people come to town, they'll see a new building and they'll see progress. And that's what we want.

We're moving in the right direction, ... We need to emphasize not just low costs, but amenities like our riverfront development. We're trying to carve out an economic niche with plant-made pharmaceuticals that will create higher-paying jobs. And we're hoping to increase our intellectual capital with cancer research at the hospital's cancer center.

Your headlights and all the other bulbs in your vehicle see a very consistent voltage. You don't get the voltage spikes that tend to burn out bulbs and shorten their lives.

You hear that winning breeds winning. But no winners are bred from losing. They learn that they don't like it.

You can't ignore things like that, ... We've got a culture here that has depended on an educational level that is not appropriate for the times we're living in.

I got it going pretty good today and overall the week was pretty good. Now I'm going home and rest.

No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.

He just keeps on winning. He's got a perfect body for a golf swing. When he's got his swing under control, he's always the man to beat out here. He's so accurate. I don't see him slowing down too much. He's amazing. He's 60, but he's going to continue to win.

I could sense a little fatigue in that I got a little careless, mentally careless, out there today. But the conditions are perfect. With soft greens and no wind it's easy to get to the hole. I think the winning score will be pretty low.

Everyone else had come to see Tiger. He was twenty-one years old, a multi-multi-millionaire, and already a one-name athlete, as in Michael or Shaq, Deion or The Shark. Only, at that moment Tiger was bigger than all of them. Even Michael. He was nine weeks removed from one of the most stunning performances in the history of sports, a twelve-shot victory in the Masters that had left people in golf groping for words to describe what they had seen. And what they had seen was impossible. He's a boy among men, ... And he's teaching the men a lesson.

He had obvious symptoms for almost a year before the diagnosis. Bruce knew he was in trouble when he went into a bar one time, ordered a drink and the guy said, 'I'm not serving you, you're drunk.' That woke him up.

Damn this disease. Damn it.

That's great. The golf course is long for us old folks.

If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively, then the design strategy is flawed.

Lots of bittersweet things have happened to me since Bruce's diagnosis in January. The bitterness is that there's nothing to hang on to. Your hope is to find an island before you run out of time.

Watson quoted himself to the writers, telling them what he writes in notes of bereavement to others. May the memories of the one who has passed on fill the void that they left, ... There's another poem, by St. Augustine, that says, 'Don't cry for me but remember the most important things of my life and what I represented in my life and make that your memory of me, not my death.' I think that's important. We have grief. I'm sure I'll cry. I'll cry a lot before it's over.

Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum.

Woods sees himself as an icon, one for the ages. That was evident in the stone-cold way that he went about winning his first U.S. Open and third major title, with the most dominating four-round performance in the history of major-championship golf. His winning margin was 15 strokes -- two better than the record for a major set by Old Tom Morris at the 1862 British Open against a field of about a dozen -- and his manner of winning was intimidating. Woods hit longer, straighter drives than anyone else. He flew iron shots that held on Pebble's small, firm greens. He never three-putted. This made even the most accomplished players look uncomfortable and unworthy. Tiger has raised the bar, ... and it seems that he's the only guy who can jump over that bar.

Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.

Subaru stands as a leading example of a company that understands the power of reaching out directly to the community. We are very proud to be working with them to launch an exclusive multi-platform campaign created specifically for the Logo audience.

I don't know what it is. I'm not in David's head.

It takes a lot of money to play golf, ... and we want to be a sport for everybody. The First Tee is one way to introduce young people to golf.

I'd rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the woods it can move anywhere; it can come right up behind you.

I'm running for mayor because someone has to step up and give voters a viable alternative.

The lower-voltage hybrids will give you better efficiency than you'd get with a conventional vehicle, but they still don't provide the power you need to do full hybridization. For that, you've got to jump to something higher at least 200V. Given the spectrum of voltages available in the electrical system, you get all the efficiency from the higher voltages, so why spend your time on the 'in-between' voltages

I'm not gonna get it close. I'm gonna make it.

That's terrific. The golf is long for us old folks, and that's a heck of a score.

Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference.

They better watch out because Jack and I have always been good partners. We've been good partners in money games, practice rounds and we've been good partners in the Ryder Cup, so watch out boys.

When I left Bruce here last year, he was crying in the parking lot, ... He thought that was going to be his last Masters. Of course, it was. The last time he caddied for me was at the UBS Warburg Cup on Sea Island last fall. On Sunday, we went to the bar and had a beer together, knowing that might have been the last time, too, which it was.

That's Jim's other love, besides his family and golf. He knows his music and helped me with my career, which is amazing considering Jim can't sing, doesn't play an instrument and is the world's worst dancer.

I started way too late. I struggled on the front nine and then I gave myself good putts at the end.

A lot of guys who have never choked have never been in the position to do so.

I didn't expect to be here doing this today. It was a round that I'll always remember.

As many years experience as I have, I've been able to see a lot of different conditions and have been able to deal with them. Right now my swing feels pretty good, so I'm trusting it and I guess it doesn't matter what type of condition I'm playing under. I feel as if I can compete.

They give the effect of sunlight streaming through the blades, even on the city's dreariest days. I'd rather have sunshine, but when the weather stinks, the tubes help.

We've got to teach parents to expect their children to go on to college. There's a culture here of manufacturing. And we need manufacturing jobs. But we need a higher level of education to attract better jobs.

I really didn't expect to win. I didn't expect to make 10 birdies like I did.

You don't win golf tournaments when you do that.

The person I fear most in the last two rounds is myself.