Top 52 Quotes & Sayings by Fuzzy Zoeller

If I hadn't become a golfer, I doubt I'd be wealthy, because I don't have the sort of ego that drives a person all day long. I might have wound up driving a tractor.

Playing with friends is a victory.

The greatest thing about golf, there's no end to it unless you're dead. You just go from here to the Senior Tour.

They talk about Amen Corner but there's so much more to it than what meets the eye on this golf course.

A million thoughts went through my mind. What little mind I have.

I think I can be competitive. Heck, anybody who can walk to the first tee here has a chance.

I'm not a great player, but I'm a damn good one.

I hate golf to be tricked up. To me it's a fun game.

There is something magical about that green coat. I mean that sincerely. It's a very special week, and being able to wear that green jacket. It's made my whole career. It's special.

When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game.

If the pressure is getting to you, whistle. In a barely audible way. It's the best way I know of to let go of tension. Music gets your mind off the situation, and the act of whistling melts the tension out of your body.

You would think that Freddy Couples-Nick Price would be the team to beat, but I'll tell you in skins, it's a matter of just hitting it at the right time.

Vodka does not ease back pain. But it does get your mind off it.

It was Jack's and Tom Watson's day yesterday. But today, it's another day.

It's kind of exciting again. I'm doing everything right, right now. I'm driving the ball well and I'm hitting some pretty good irons and giving myself opportunities.

The key factor in the vodka category is smoothness, and smoothness is what our vodka has.

What's appropriate in America anymore?

At the British Open, I had my opportunities, but the ball just didn't want to go in the hole on the back nine.

I have to make things right with Tiger first before anything else.

I realize I'm not a machine. I'm going to make mistakes.

Life is not a bowl full of cherries, there's good and bad stuff.

Every shot makes someone happy.

It's fun when the ball is going in the hole and things are going right, but it's a miserable game when things aren't going well.

When things are going good they just keep going good.

I've been on the tour for 23 years and anybody who knows me knows that I am a jokester.

I might not come home with hardware, but I'm winning.

I'm glad I don't have to make a living farming. Too much hard work. Too many variables you don't have control over, like, is it going to rain? All I can say is, god bless the real farmers out there.

It's nice to walk into a club and see your picture. Then you know you've done something good.

When you have strings, everybody pulls you here and pulls you there.

Newspapers do a good job telling me what happened yesterday, but they'd be a lot more impressive if they could tell me what's going to happen tomorrow.

There's a lot of great people out here, I just appreciate it and hope everybody has had fun because I've enjoyed my ride.

Every time I got close, somebody seemed to play a little better.

Have a little fun. A few laughs.

A lot of amateurs are terrified of going up against a player who is clearly better than they are. They never play their best, because they aren't comfortable. There's one surefire way to get over that, and it's to ask yourself, 'What if I beat him?' Imagine the possibility.

I wasn't sure I'd ever win again. Every time I got close, somebody seemed to play a little better.

When you play against the best, it brings the best out in everybody.

I win everyday I'm out there.

Everybody saying you can't do this, you can't do that. I don't know why. Guess if you listen to it, you can convince yourself of it.

Golf isn't first on my list anymore. There are a lot of things ahead of golf and I have to go ahead and do those things so I can play golf. I'm tired of hurting. Tired of fighting pain.

I hope everybody's had fun, because I've enjoyed my ride. I can tell you that. Now it's time to step aside and let some other young kid come in and win. Hopefully, they will, too.

I've never been to heaven and, thinking back on my life, I probably won't get a chance to go. I guess the Masters is as close as I'm going to get.

I never had any thought the whole week. I figured my caddie [Jerry Beard] knew the course a lot better than me, so I put out my hand and played whatever club he put in it. I'd say, "How hard do I hit it?" He'd tell me and I'd swing. The guys who come down here once a year and try to get smart with Mr. Jones' course are the dumb ones.

What the hell, I paid my dues.

You've got to gamble every once in a while in a round of golf. I'm not afraid to screw up.

I accept the fact that I'm going to miss it sometimes. I just hope I miss it where I can find it.

There are days when I can hear men tying their shoe laces in the gallery.

You've got to have the guts to not be afraid to screw up. The guys who win are the ones who are not afraid to mess up. And that comes right from the heart.

That little boy is driving well and he's putting well. He's doing everything it takes to win. So, you know what you guys do when he gets in here? You pat him on the back and say congratulations and enjoy it and tell him not serve fried chicken next year. Got it? [...] Or collard greens or whatever the hell they serve.

You've got to have the guts not to be afraid to screw up.

Because you pray after you play.

Every golfer has a little monster in him. It's just that type of sport.

Arnie, you're going to have to buy a bigger jet.