Fred Funk Quotes (47 Quotes)

I work at it really hard, ... I try to take care of myself. I'm focused. I want to play. I think that's the biggest difference. Age doesn't really matter.

That made it pretty neat, but it gave a lot of blind holes and shots that you didn't really have much control over, ... And with the firmness of the course, it made it that much more difficult.

The wins and the achievements are shallow victories compared with what you do, or what you feel, when you can help someone else, and to see the impact. It was great to win The Players Championship. It was great to be in the top 30, and be on the winning team at the Presidents Cup. But it doesn't feel nearly as good as how it felt today.

There's a lot of pride out here. You don't expect this golf course to play that hard. It used to be that if you weren't playing well, you could always make some birdies. I've made two birdies all week.

My worry was I'd get shut out, especially after wearing a skirt,

It was one of those things where you are thinking you have to do more than you have to coming down the back nine. I tried some shots a little too aggressively and paid the price, made some bogeys. All of a sudden I lost the lead. I did birdie the last two holes, but it was too late at that point.

Obviously there must have been some beer factor in there.

After the experience of playing on the Presidents Cup team last year, my only goal this year was to make the Ryder Cup team. For me, it was more important to play in the Ryder Cup than the British Open.

Major-wise, it's pretty comparable, ... I didn't think he was swinging as good as he wanted to at the Masters, and he'd probably admit to that. U.S. Open, he really played pretty solid. British Open, obviously that venue he loves. He's awfully good. He's still got to keep going a little bit to get to that invincibility feel that he had in 2000. But he's putting a pretty good spin on it right now.

Knowing one of his most dependable players was hurting, Nicklaus gave Furyk to Woods on Friday. Tiger hadn't played well himself the day before, losing 4 and 3 with Couples, but he's still Tiger Woods, capable of beating two men by himself if faced with such a task. Sixteen holes later, Captain Jack looked like a genius. Again. He really wanted to be Tiger's partner, and Tiger can't help but get motivated by that, ... Jim won't get caught up in the atmosphere or the pressure that goes with playing with him. You get Tiger a guy who is hitting on all cylinders mentally and won't get intimidated by that atmosphere, and that's a big plus.

I'm the little engine that could, ... I played good. It was still timing. There were a lot of great putts made. Freddie made some great putts and he got shut out.

This is a slam dunk this year. All the stars have lined up. It's an unbelievable venue at Congressional, the date -- the week before the U.S. Open -- for most players it's a really good date. ... There are very few courses we play on the tour that have the aura and history that Congressional brings.

Woods and Furyk would ultimately go 36 holes against Singh-Appleby, rallying from 2 down with two to play for a crucial halve in the morning, then triumphing on the 18th in a tense four-ball that pulled the Americans even heading into Sunday. I don't know why it took so long to figure out, ... It looks great right now -- you hit yourself in the head and say, Why didn't we think of this before' It really worked out well.

We want to win for each other. I hate reading that we're not a team. Just because we got beat at Ryder Cup doesn't mean we're not a team. But people read into it.

Again, timing's everything, ... It was very difficult to make putts. You saw a lot of putts go right up to the hole and break off. Freddie and Tiger hit a bunch like that. It's just difficult trying to read these things and you don't know where they go.

' 'I hope we're done with it. We'll see, ... 'I guess I'm getting old. I'm just happy I can go to the Champions Tour.

He was dreading every golf swing he had to take.

I think they should be here. .... If you qualify for one of these, you got to be laying on your death bed before you can't come to one of these events. It really hurts the field.

I was hoping he'd win because I would've been part of history, part of the Grand Slam, and he's a good friend,

That's the only hole that's overdone. It was difficult before. Now you walk off the green with a 3 and feel like you stole something, and it shouldn't be that way.

We play against guys we play with in the Ryder Cup week in and week out. We're all friends. Why the media want to generate any of this hatred - that's the problem. You even read stuff about Tiger and Phil disliking each other. How come they're always hanging together and playing ping-pong

They called and told me I was in the Skins Game and I said, 'Which Skins Game The one over Thanksgiving

It's been a great week having my image on all the ticket specials in the paper all the time. It wouldn't have been as special if it wasn't the hometown.

Sometimes, when a guy is in that zone, it's like he's playing a different golf course than the rest of us. Usually it's Tiger. But (yesterday) it was Stephen Ames.

It bothered me for a long time, ... I had that tournament and I let it go. It still upsets me.

I guess it's the golf course. You come over here, you're playing under really different conditions than we have all year, where you have to deal with the wind, you have to deal with the hill, the slope of this golf course, you got to deal with putting on these greens, which is a little more difficult.

As the game has progressed to what I consider a pure power game, this golf course still stands up. It's a position golf course, and it's a penal golf course. If you miss it off-line, you're penalized big-time.

It came down to 18 and I didn't think with the wind and those conditions that I could get home, but I hit a really good drive and a really good three-wood to get it up there. I didn't think birdie would win it, but you just never know in the Skins Game.

You've got to be in the right place to score on it. The greens are such small targets. It's a really good golf course, because it doesn't favor big hitters.

It's a good feeling here. The people are great. It's a shame the tournament has been later in August the last few years. When it was early in June, you'd get throngs of people out here.

He said, Finally, a tournament that somebody won and it meant a lot to hit fairways and greens instead of how far they're hitting it,' ... That felt pretty good.

We were watching the best golf anyone is going to play -- 13 and 14 were as good as golf gets.

For selfish reasons, I really wish we were having a weak field, so I would have a better chance.

The last four or five years have been my best. The others have meant a lot to me, but The Players Championship is my defining win.

It's a shot-maker's golf course. And it's not a one-dimensional type golf course.

If you give the touring pros a time to have a thought process on the tee -- do I hit a driver, do I want to hit driver, is it a 3-wood -- all of a sudden, they've got to think instead of just pulling the driver and wail at it and hit it as hard as they can. And that creates a little more tension, a little more anxiety for the guys, and if you're not on your game, you're not going to perform as well.

I'd say normally any TOUR event is close. It's very rare that any of them are runaways. The guys are pretty evenly locked. It's very seldom a guy gets on a roll with his putter to the point where he can really separate himself from the field like Tiger (Woods) has done a few times and Ernie did here, and Duval.

I like this kind of golf course, ... I love when you see at the end of the tournament that the top 25 is a mixed with different types of games. I think that means they have a good golf course and a good setup.

I really feel like I can help the Champions Tour. But at the same time, I'm competitive out here. It's kind of hard to say, okay, that's over and let's go to a new chapter. But I'm not sure. I'm going to have to re-evaluate.

It was a smoking-hot day, and they had one window air conditioner that couldn't keep up, ... At the time, he was still on his ventilator in his wheelchair. I remember introducing myself, and he had an infectious smile. He's such a good-looking kid. You go in there with the attitude that you're going to be the highlight of his day, and he was the highlight of my day. I walked out of there and said, 'I've got to do something for him.'

I can't overpower a golf course, ... I have to go out and pick and choose my spots and try to stay out of trouble, just manage my game better than a lot of guys out here. I've got to be on my game.

We just hate reading that we're not a team of togetherness, ... just because we get beat at the Ryder Cup.

We've got our 13th man with the home field. They have been fired up for a long time

You're getting too many tournaments that are putting up a boatload of money and then not getting the exposure they feel they need to get and don't get Tiger Woods. That's the only one they really care about. Tiger just sells the tournament by himself if he's there.

I played good, but still, it's the timing, ... There just weren't that many putts made.

It was an honor that I thought was even bigger than making the team on your own, ... for him to think enough of me to be on the team. Just to come out and play for Jack again is pretty neat.

Long story short, he lost his heart rate three times but he ended up surviving.