Tom Watson Quotes

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Tom Watson

Profession : Golfer

Birth : September 4, 1949

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.

Tom Watson

Golf is a game of ego, but it is also a game of integrity: the most important thing is you do what is right when no one is looking.

Tom Watson

Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum.

Tom Watson

I'm very happy with my life. I am what I am. I don't worry about anything that I can't control. That's a really good lesson in life.

Tom Watson

I'd rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the woods it can move anywhere; it can come right up behind you.

Tom Watson

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

Tom Watson

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.

Tom Watson

Golf will grow so long as it's fun.

Tom Watson

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

Tom Watson

I always could putt. Part of my makeup, I always could putt.

Tom Watson

I've said many times, 'You learn to win through not liking to lose.' And that's what I mean by learning how to win.

Tom Watson

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

Tom Watson

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.

Tom Watson

I love the way the game of golf is lived and played in Scotland. I always have.

Tom Watson

I have a special feeling for Blue Hills CC, where I won perhaps the most important tournament of my life when I was 14 - the Kansas City Match Play Championship. It gave me a dream of becoming a professional golfer.

Tom Watson

I played team sport as a kid and loved it. I played basketball and football throughout high school into college in the intramurals and I loved it. There was nothing like a team.

Tom Watson

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

Tom Watson

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

Tom Watson

I'm not accepting of whiners.

Tom Watson

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

Tom Watson