Quotes from Paige Spiranac

I started playing golf after a broken knee led me to quit my career as an elite gymnast. It wasn't long before I became one of the world's top-ranked amateur players.

When it comes to the golf industry, I know that people see me as a gimmick.

I've done golf and fitness shoots, but in those I'm still fairly covered up.

I feel like everyone in golf is just playing this part of this perfect golfer when in reality it's nothing like that.

All I ever wanted was to be a golfer on the LPGA tour. That's still my dream, but getting there has turned out to be a lot more complicated than I thought.

I want people to see that golf is fun and it's cool. You don't have to be a professional golfer to enjoy it.

Golf is the absolute worst place for me to be because I am the exact opposite of everything that a golfer should encompass, should be, and I'm not.

I probably do more community service than any other professional golfer.

To be a professional golfer in the 21st century, you must be an athlete.

I'm a content creator, so I like to read the comments, and I like to engage, because if people aren't interested in what I'm doing, then I'm not doing a good job.

If someone is misrepresenting my playing career, I try to correct them. If they say something mean about me I'll let them know it hurts my feelings. But I've noticed that the best thing for me is to show love back to them and show positivity and by doing that you gain a fan.

Growing up, I had a hair condition where my hair would fall out easily, and I had bad asthma.

Every child thrives on encouragement, but beware of forcing it. I've seen too many family relationships crumble because of excessive ambition on the course or the range.

You may not even realize how much your off-the-rack clubs are affecting your game.

I'm very passionate about the game, but I don't want to do it as a living. I feel confident in the path that I'm taking now and I didn't feel confident in the path that I was taking with golf - I just realized that I don't want to play professionally.

Turns out, the enjoyment I receive from growing the game through content creation and collaborations, and the work I do with the Cybersmile Foundation around cyberbullying, is leaps and bounds above what I got out of playing competitively.

I'm not refined, I'm raw and real and I wear what I want and I have always been so different and golf is not that way.

I respect and understand that golf is enveloped in tradition and that certain rules and regulations must be upheld.

I was a tomboy. I played football and wasn't afraid to get dirty. Shopping? Not for me.

It's only when we stop looking exclusively to the podium for our heroes and start looking all around us that we'll make the greatest progress toward a better tomorrow.

The gymnastics community is toxic. You just do what they say no matter what. It's really scary.

I actually was a competitive gymnast for the first part of my life. From age 6 to 12, I dedicated pretty much everything to that, until I got injured really badly.

I may not go down in history as the best female golfer to ever play, however my intent is to do whatever I can to grow the game.

I've never felt like I fit in. I always feel like I'm walking in the wrong direction or swimming upstream.