Quotes from Johnny Miller

People need to know that when I was interviewed when I played, I would really pat myself on the back when I did well and tell you how good I was playing, but I'd also tell you when I choked or I was playing terrible. I told it like it was.

When people pick the best drivers of all time, nobody ever picks Lee Trevino. But when he played, like at Tanglewood at the '74 PGA, he missed one fairway in 72 holes.

When I was at my peak, I would go into streaks where I felt like it was almost magic, that I could knock down the pin from anywhere with my irons.

It's not what you accomplish in life that matters; it's what you overcome.

The mental aspect of golf is what makes golf such a great sport.

There are plenty of guys who played great golf, had great careers and only won a few majors.

I don't think anywhere is there a symbiotic relationship between caddie and player like there is in golf.

Most announcers play pattycake, pattycake with the players they're covering.

Look, I'm not trying to be critical when I'm on the air.

It's not so much what you accomplish in life that really matters, but what you overcome that proves who you are, what you are, and whether you are a champion.

Sports are 90% inspiration and 10% perspiration.

I always felt that I would rather be out fishing or home with my family than at some cocktail party with a group of VIPs.

For me, 'choking' is just another term in golf.

I was always known as the 'Desert Fox.'

If I had been in the gallery, I'd have gone home.

It's been a great run. I've done everything I can do announcing wise.

Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.

You can be a guy who won 18 majors, but that doesn't mean you'll be a great Ryder Cupper. That's the rarest golf there is.

I usually listen to my gut, so to speak, and my wife.

Tiger's swing when he won the Masters by 12 shots - I loved that swing.

The hardest weeks for me are when I get to a course that I've never been to before or one that has been through a redesign.

Golf is the greatest sport of all to see if you can handle pressure.

All my friends were retiring, and it got to the point where I was like, 'Hey, how come I'm not retiring?'

It's not what you accomplish in life, but what you overcome.