Golfers

"I love to compete. That's the essence of who I am."

"I don't see myself as the Great Black Hope. I'm just a golfer who happens to be black and Asian. It doesn't matter whether they're white, black, brown or green."

"My goal is to remain healthy my entire career, and a healthy diet seems like a good start."

"I think the best thing is being able to play golf competitively for a living. Ever since I was a little boy, that's something I've always wanted to do, and now I get a chance to live out my dreams."

"I've done it before. It won't be the last time. You're going to go years where you just don't win. That's okay, as long as you keep trying to improve."

"I am pretty health-conscious, so when my girlfriend and/or I make dinner--no, I don't have a cook!--we choose the healthier options: lean meats, steamed veggies, fish, etc. Of course, there are always those cravings for the "bad foods" that I do give in to once in a while!"

"My body is a little bit sore from all of the practicing and playing and training, and your mind gets a little tired of it, too. It's nice to be able to recharge and come back fresh for the remainder of the year."

"We have a lot of fun every year, and I really enjoy being part of junior golf and the development of these players."

"I don't want to be the best black golfer, I want to be the best golfer, period."

"You can always become better"

"Buddhism teaches that a craving for things outside ourselves causes an unhappy and pointless search for security. It teaches me to stop following every impulse and to learn restraint. Obviously, I lost track of what I was taught."

"Life isn't all Golf."

"Tiger Woods was raised from infancy to be a great golfer and is not just intact but graceful and charming. The ranks of great golfers, swimmers and Dominican shortstops are not more noticeably skewed to the deranged than the general population."

"If you're paying any attention at all, you'll see that the first person who ever publicly got away with being mixed was Barack Obama. Tiger Woods came close, but he never got away with it. Both blacks and whites questioned Woods."

"He didn't seem concerned about his injuries at the time, which is not uncommon in traffic collisions. Many times people tend to be in shock. It's a traumatic experience. It's not uncommon for people to be focused on unimportant things or even if they are in pain, they may not feel it until much later"

"It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus."

"The older you get the stronger the wind gets—and it’s always in your face."

"I would never deny that Jack Nicklaus is the greatest player who ever lived."

"My heart was beating. I got sick in my stomach and my hands were sweating — everything you feel when you are under pressure. I've been nervous before, but nothing like this."

"I'm going back to my tour where I belong. The attention was more than I expected. The golf course wasn't a problem. It was just the things around it. All the preparation I've done in the last month weighed on me."

"Ron Sirak, a golf writer and friend, was quoted as saying, "Annika is no longer a female golfer. She's a golfer." That's truly all I ever aspired to be."

"I just feel that there's a little bit of lack of respect and class just to kind of leave a tournament like that and then come out and practice here, especially being the hostess. You know, I don't know the situation, if it's injury or whatever it is. It's just -- it just seemed really weird."

"An old friend once told me, you don't go fill up your car with gas at night and then park it in the garage."

"The harder I practice, the luckier I get."

"Winning doesn't come cheaply … you have to pay a big price."

"Which looks like a mixture of lacrosse and second-degree manslaughter."

"My first wife was a great housekeeper. She kept both houses."

"He's got a touch of a gay florist."

"People have accused me of being so far up Tiger's arse that he can barely make a full swing, but I maintain that he is a special person."

"I am sorry Nick Faldo couldn't be here this week. He is attending the birth of his next wife."

"If you try hard enough, anything can happen."

"Golf is such a wonderful game, I love it to death."

"I don't smile much, and I never laugh. It's just something that's in me. If you'd been through what I've been through, you wouldn't be smiling, either."

"When I played golf in Arizona, I noticed I was at a good level and I could compete against the best in the world. I became a professional player and got closer to my dream"

"When I noticed that my priorities changed, I was very excited to get marry and have kids. It was clear to me that I had to retire. It was very nice because I made a decision for the right reasons. I retired in Morelia, Mexico while we played a very important tournament, it was in my country, my people, my friends and sponsors, it was beautiful, she smiled."

"I’ve worked hard on all aspects of my game but coming into this season I knew my irons have always been where I can improve the most, I started the year and felt like I was hitting my irons the best I ever have then suddenly I wasn’t putting as well as I normally do, which has been my strength"

"Sticking to my process means believing in the work I’m doing and the ability to put it all [strengths and weaknesses] together. I’m still kind of bummed about my first nine holes at Massereene on Thursday and my back nine here [at Galgorm] yesterday. But besides that, everything was positive, so that’s what I will take with me."

"I try to lower my expectations because you get pretty excited. You have a lot of family and you want to win, you want to play so well and do well, But I’ve learned to calm down a little bit and lower my expectations."

"I loved it, A lot of drivers off the tee, which I think is great. A lot of character. Greens are massive, so a lot of long putts. And they’re fast … probably a lot of 10-feet-and-in putts for par and long lag putts."

"The Olympic Games are very special to me and I’m a patriotic Australian, so to have an opportunity to work with the best Australian players on the biggest stage in sport is incredibly powerful"

"I’m rapt to see that golf is in the Olympics as I think it has the potential to help grow our game globally as well as in Australia. Our best Australian players continue to fly our flag so well internationally and I know they will do so in Paris 2024 hopefully coming away with a medal or two. That’s what I’d love to see."

"I knew she wasn't going to make a mistake, so I had to go for it and give myself the best chances for birdies"

"I feel like you put a little bit more pressure on yourself because you want to perform and not disappoint anybody"

"Plastics are useful, but the downside of this convenience is that plastics cause serious problems like the destruction of ecosystems.”"

"We found the most efficient degraders came from the local landfill.” Nature was indeed evolving ways of dealing with the problem, one that we could someday use"

"LPGA is my dream, and it’s the highest stage for professional golfers. My goal is to put out my best performance to show myself and to show the people that believe in me that I'm able to be performing well on that stage, I will be also very proud because I'm Chinese player and I will be proud to follow their steps. To be on Tour with Ruoning and Xiyu would be really exciting for me.”"

"I want to thank Tony and Jeanne Pritzker and UCLA for considering us for this prestigious award, which could help us surpass our last technical hurdle before moving across the finish line,”"

"We are providing a service to process this material at a price that is comparable to [the cost of sending it to] landfills,”"

"This technology can become the pillar of what would enable people around the world to mine landfills for plastics as a new carbon source,” Wang said. “We don’t have to drill for oil anymore to make the things around us.”"

"“If we want to continue living on this planet, we have to solve the plastic pollution problem and we have to solve it within our generation. Humans have the incredible ability to innovate to survive at times when it matters. Now is one of those times.”"

"When I retired a couple of years ago and decided to get certified teaching, I told myself that I would want to help our golfers here. I just want to inspire and motivate them and it’s time for me to give back teach them what I know. When I was going to turn pro and wanting someone to talk to about it, I really didn’t have anyone to go to, so I figured things out for myself."