Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Brooks Koepka - Page 2

I'm going to have wedge when guys are going have a 6-iron, plain and simple.

There are some things you have to accept come with being really good at something: more attention, more eyes on you, every move you make - whether good or bad, you have to answer. If that's the price of where I want to get, it'll be worth it.

A lot of guys are known for the stuff they do off the golf course and who they like to hang around. It's pretty obvious who's doing that and who isn't.

Golf's my job; it's not my life. It's something I've enjoyed, but I also like to get away from the golf course.

I play fairly aggressively week to week and fire at a lot of pins. So I might miss more greens than other pros, but I'm still only a few yards from the hole when I do. That being said, when I really need to hit a green in regulation, I'm confident in my swing.

I honestly just want to take a selfie sometimes.

I see the young guys coming out of college. They are bombing it past me. They hit it so far, they are leaving me in the dust.

I've always felt like I was going to win a British Open at St. Andrews. That place is suited for me.

I'm not the biggest on social media.

I love travelling. I'll go anywhere. I think it's so much fun.

Sitting on that couch eating and gaining 20 pounds isn't exactly fun - there's only so much you can do.

I don't mind being by myself, even in a foreign country.

You're always working to try and climb that ladder.

I haven't had too many tragedies in my family where there has been a loss or even an accident. I've been lucky in that sense.

I don't get sore. If you're working out every day, you're not going to be sore.

I'm just really good at blending in. If you look at how I've grown up, I wasn't the best, so hanging back comes more naturally.

Golf doesn't really have many big guys.

You start comparing yourself to other people, you end up trying to be that person. You've got to be your own person, do it your own way. You can be motivated by somebody, but you don't have to take after them.

A lot of golfers take the club back with almost no upper-body rotation - they're all arms. And even when they do rotate back, it's usually on a flat shoulder plane. If your shoulders turn back fairly level with the ground, it's hard to swing down from inside the target line and hit an accurate shot.

I got into a car accident and couldn't play baseball, hockey, and basketball. We stuck with golf for a little while, and it's panned out. I think it was a blessing in disguise.

To be No. 1 is something I've dreamed of as a kid.

I'm not somebody who's going to panic if things go the wrong way.

You tell me I can't do something, I'm going to do it.

If you look at some of the strongest athletes in the world, they're gymnasts. And they're the most flexible. You can be very strong, very flexible, and still be able to move.

I'm about the size of a cornerback, maybe a free safety.

I learned how to play golf over in Europe; I learned how to manage being on the road.

You can't hide when you're on the top of the leaderboard. You can't hide my name.

You've got guys who will kiss up, and I'm not gonna kiss up. I don't need to kiss anyone's butt. I'm here to play golf.

I'm not going to let everyone in, but when I do open up, I trust you. I let you fully in. My close friends, my family, and everyone around me can really appreciate it, and sometimes it's not the easiest to open up to people.

I get in that zone, even if I'm relaxing or whatever, where I just zone out. I don't even hear anybody. You could ask me a question five times, and I don't even hear it.

To me, traveling in the United States isn't that much fun. I like to go elsewhere and experience different cultures.

I don't like people; I don't let too many people into my life.

I feel like if you outwork everybody, you're giving yourself the best opportunity every time you go into an event. You want to outwork everybody, and you want to beat everybody. Put in the work, and the results will come.

A question I get asked a lot in pro-ams is how I'm able to swing the club as hard as I do. Honestly, I'm not swinging that hard. I'm using about 75 percent of my maximum effort.

I just kind of keep doing what I'm doing, keep plugging away, kind of hide behind closed doors sometimes, which is nice, kind of the way I'd like to keep it.

I've always been, I guess, pretty cool.

Being 21, 22 years old... traveling the world and getting to play golf is pretty neat.

I don't care what anyone thinks about me.

I'm not always smiling when I'm on the golf course. Sometimes, hey, listen, people have regular jobs. You go to them when they're working, and you catch them not in the best moment either. So I understand how people could perceive me. But come get to know me, and I'm totally a different person.

Golf's weird because it's individual, and there's nobody to blame but yourself, but then, golfers also have this it's-everybody-else's-fault thing where you don't take ownership.