Quotes from Paula Creamer

I take being a role model very seriously.

I believe you have to have balance in your life.

If what I say or what I do affects others who look up to me as a role model, that pleases me so much.

I think I do my own thing. I start my own trends. I see a lot of girls doing what I've been doing. Pink. Nobody wore pink, and now everybody wears it. It's flattering.

Women in pro-ams are always telling me about all the business deals they've struck on the golf course playing with their male work colleagues.

My parents have always been there to really support anything I wanted to do or learn - they provided the opportunity for me. I was very blessed in that sense.

Find a good teacher that will keep the game fun. Work hard and don't be afraid to have success or disappointment. That is what golf is all about.

There is etiquette in golf, but it's not any harder to learn than what to do at a dinner party. Actually, it's probably easier. And these days, there are a lot more women out there than there used to be. It's not like when I was young. I was always the only girl on the range.

I learned that round four of a major is really not too much different than rounds one through three. I didn't keep to my game plan in the '08 U.S. Women's Open for the final round. That won't happen again!

Someone has to take the garbage out, someone has to cook the food, and someone has to clean the dishes. I want to do all of that.

There are so many lessons in life that can be learned through golf. I am not afraid to say that I am still learning some of them and probably will continue for some time.

There is so much I want to do in women's golf, and I'm living my dream.

I like it when, you know, 3-under wins, you know, 20-under par, it just brings so many other people into contention.

I think about what I've accomplished and my career. I care about how many wins I have and whether I'm accomplishing my goals.

I care about my quality of life and money.

I have been an avid reader of 'Golf Digest' ever since I started playing this great game.

I've never gotten cash out of a machine. I use my credit cards, so I don't need to do that.

Practice, work out, proper nutrition, lots of work on my short game. In golf, that's really where the strokes come off the scorecard.

I don't really have a 'favorite' person to play with. I like to play with the player that is playing the best, but it doesn't always work out that way.

My job is what millions of people do for recreation. How can you not like that?

I've always said, the harder the golf course, the better I play.

I wasn't enjoying golf much. I was kind of getting a little bit tired, I was getting a little bit moody, and I was constantly getting angry. That's not me. And when I saw that I knew I had to change.

I've always wanted to win in my hometown.

I needed to grow up and do things all adults do. It was time to stop having everything spoon fed to me. It was about being independent.