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I'm not being used to create the trickle down effect in racquetball, unlike Tiger Woods being used to create such effect in golf. If you go to the IRT website, you don't know that I'm champion. I mean you'll see my image but you'll not know what I've done in the sport. Although, me being Canadian makes it difficult for them to embrace me as champion. I don't know, it feels like we take 10 steps forward and 8 back in racquetball.

I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor.

I'm not going to lie, I love TV. I watch a ton of it - golf, HGTV, football.

I'm not much interested in sport just as sport. I wouldn't be interested in making a golf film or baseball or fishing film.

I'm not much of a golfer, I don't have any friends and all I like to do is go home and be alone, and not worry about ways not to lose.

I'm not very good at practice. But if you tell yourself you love the hole and love hitting it on the fairway, it's a big difference.

I'm now unemployed. It's a weird feeling with no work, but at least there's still golf. Standup comedy is like my core, it's what I do. But I want to be a pro golfer. It's a love/hate relationship with golf. I can come away feeling so serene, and yet, it's the thing that I can let get to me to throw a club and say curses that don't even exist. I'm obsessed with something that won't let me master it. I don't know. I need therapy.

I move around and play different golf courses. I just enjoy it.

I'm playing like Tarzan-and scoring like Jane.

I'm really going to do my homework. I'm going to be down there on the practice tee finding out if a guy's wife beat him up the night before, important stuff like that. Stuff that people want to know.

I'm still no good at ball-and-stick games. If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke.

I'm swimming every day and I'm even trying to get the golf swing working again - but that might take a little bit longer.

I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.

I'm used to the golf course playing soft, so tomorrow I'm going to have to pay attention a little bit more.

I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.

I'm very surprised - midway through my second glass of red wine last night, I really didn't think I'd be standing here with a trophy in my hands.

I'm working as hard as I can to get my life and my cash to run out at the same time. If I can just die after lunch Tuesday, everything would be perfect.

In a generation or two, or maybe sooner, young golfers of true sporting instinct will wonder why all this handling of the ball is necessary. It will seem to them that the game is not as good as it might be.

I never had any thought the whole week. I figured my caddie [Jerry Beard] knew the course a lot better than me, so I put out my hand and played whatever club he put in it. I'd say, "How hard do I hit it?" He'd tell me and I'd swing. The guys who come down here once a year and try to get smart with Mr. Jones' course are the dumb ones.

Indeed, the highest pleasure of golf may be that on the fairways and far from all the pressures of commerce and rationality, we can feel immortal for a few hours.

I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. It's like a color movie. First I 'see' where I want it to finish, nice and white and sitting up high on the bright green grass. Then the scene quickly changes and I 'see' the ball going there: its path, trajectory, and shape, even its behavior on landing. Then there is this sort of fadeout, and the next scene shows me making the kind of swing that will turn the previous images to reality.

I never knew what top golf was like until I turned professional. Then it was too late.

I never played much golf as a kid. I caddied quite a bit but never got serious into golf until about age 15.

I never rooted against an opponent, but I never rooted for him either.

I never taught my girls to play golf; they all played softball

I never used golf as a job. I used it as a game. I always thought if I played the game well, my financial rewards would be there, but it came from, because I played well. But I had to play well to get the financial rewards.

I never got on the course with my dad, but to be playing golf with my kids - that's a dream.

I never pray to God to make a putt. I pray to God to help me react good if I miss a putt.

I never mixed with golfers when I was playing, mainly because I didn't want to talk golf all night.

I never play golf because it takes too long, and the business connections it produces can be made just as easily over an early breakfast.

I never went into a tournament or round of golf thinking I had to beat a certain player. I had to beat the golf course. If I prepared myself for a major, went in focused, and then beat the golf course, the rest took care of itself.

I never worried about money, except that I knew that all I had to worry about was golf. As long as I could play, I was going to make money.

In fishing, golf and gardening, if you don't have a healthy tolerance for your own ineptitude, then it isn't for you.

In golf, driving is a game of free-swinging muscle control, while putting is something like performing eye surgery and using a bread knife for a scalpel.

In golf, as in no other sport, your principal opponent is youself.

In golf, you have to stay patient and calm. On the race track you can let loose, but in golf you can't and you must be calm.

In golf, 'close' is like the north and south rim of the Grand Canyon.

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

In golf, a player can step and mar the line of his adversary's putt. A player can also hit his adversary or his caddie intentionally with his ball and claim the hole - but it isn't usually done.

In golf, as in life, you get out of it what you put into it.

In golf, just because a person is big and cut and ripped, doesn't mean they have a physical advantage.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.

In golf your strengths and weaknesses will always be there. If you could improve your weaknesses, you would improve your game. The irony is that people prefer to practice their strengths.

In my case what happened next in 1999 was that I fell apart over that back nine. When I saw I was in genuine contention that year I felt like throwing up. That remains probably the most nervous I've ever been on a golf course.

In my day we simply didn't believe that it was possible to play as well as these young fellows do. We thought that strength denied touch and that you could not consistently hit the ball both long and straight. It's been proven that you can.

In my retirement I go for a short swim at least once or twice every day. It's either that or buy a new golf ball.

In my life, I'd like to play more golf and, and get a decent handicap.

In my opinion, no young player can develop his or her game to its highest potential if he or she rides around the course in a golf cart.

In no other sport must the spectator move.