Quotes from Tom Watson

My career was one of just taking it step by step. I didn't know how I was gonna fare on the professional circuit when I qualified. I didn't know whether I was gonna make a dime. I didn't know anything but this one thing: I had some dreams, and I was gonna work harder than anybody out here to ply my trade.

I hope that I've been able to treat people with the respect they've shown me. That's basically the tenet you try to live by. I haven't been successful at it all my life, but that's what I strive for.

Some guys have trouble sleeping the night before an important round. I never have. Invariably, I sleep longer and better, and have more dreams, when I'm in contention and feeling pressure.

From the time I won the Kansas City Match Play championship at age 14, I never wanted to be anything but a golfer.

It's time for old players like me, old fogies like me, to give it up and let the young players have a chance.

When you come off that last hole and you've just finished a good round of golf, life is good. When you come off that last hole and you messed it up through four or five holes and just played a lousy round of golf, it's just not a very good day. It just isn't.

The cows hovered over the mountain Creating a huge pooping fountain

I'm no genius, but I'm smart in spots, and I stay around those spots.

That's one of the things you get when you're playing golf. You get bad backs, bad necks.

Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand..

such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges..

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

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

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

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

Isao Aoki is one of the three best players in the world from 100yards. Maybe the best

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

I'm not accepting of whiners.

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

The golf swing is a violent swing. You twist, and your spine is under continual stress when you're making a golf swing. Your neck, your spine, your hands, your knees, everything.