Tom Watson Quotes

• Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum.

  Tom Watson

  Motivational, Thinking, Momentum

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• I learned how to win by losing and not liking it.

  Tom Watson

  Winning, Losing

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• 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

  Sports, Golf, Games

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

  Tom Watson

  Confidence, Mean, Golf

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• My golf swing is a bit like ironing a shirt. You get one side smoothed out, turn it over and there is a big wrinkle on the other side. Then you iron that one out, turn it over and there is yet another wrinkle.

  Tom Watson

  Golf, Wrinkles, Swings

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• There is no surer or more painful way to learn a rule than to be penalized once for breaking it.

  Tom Watson

  Golf, Way, Painful

  Tom Watson (1980). “The Rules of Golf Illustrated and Explained”, Random House Trade

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• Sometimes you have to lose major championships before you can win them. It's the price you pay for maturing. The more times you can put yourself in pressure situations, the more times you compete, the better off you are.

  Tom Watson

  Wrestling, Winning, Pay

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• I never hesitated to promote someone I didn't like. The comfortable assistant - the nice guy you like to go on fishing trips with - is a great pitfall. Instead I looked for those sharp, scratchy, harsh, almost unpleasant guys who see and tell you about things as they really are. If you can get enough of them around you, and have patience enough to hear them out, there is no limit to where you can go.

  Tom Watson

  Work, Nice, Fishing

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

  Tom Watson

  Golf, Two, Lasts

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

  Tom Watson

  Golf, Guy, Position

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• Muirfield without a wind is like a lady undressed. No challenge.

  Tom Watson

  Golf, Wind, Challenges

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• Golf will grow so long as it’s fun.

  Tom Watson

  Fun, Golf, Long

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

  Tom Watson

  Design, Needs, Flaws

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• All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think.

  Tom Watson

  Ignorance, Men, Thinking

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• This game is so elusive. You try to maintain the peaks and level up the valleys.

  Tom Watson

  Golf, Games, Trying

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• 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

  Moving, Fighting, Fire

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• If you have an ego of any sort, this course [Augusta] will take it and shove it down your throat.

  Tom Watson

  Golf, Ego, Throat

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• Having played the Old Course many times since my first visit in 1981, I am now of the opinion it is one of the best and most beautiful tests of links golf anywhere in the world.

  Tom Watson

  Beautiful, Golf, World

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• After playing Ballybunion for the first time, a man would think that the game of golf originated here.

  Tom Watson

  Golf, Men, Thinking

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• Ballybunion is the course on which many golf architects should live and play on before they build golf courses.

  Tom Watson

  Golf, Play, Architect

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