Top 74 Quotes & Sayings by Gary Woodland
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
I loved baseball, and I was the best at basketball. Golf was sort of third on my list.
No matter what I've done, from when I was a young kid, I always believed I would be successful.
I make 18 three-footers after every round. It's just something that helps me focus on routine, and helps me hear the ball go in the hole. It's something I do every day.
I'm a huge sports guy, so getting messages from guys I grew up watching and following - Scott Van Pelt, Chris Paul, Charles Barkley, Adam Schefter - was really special.
I have a boxer and I'm getting another boxer. I have a girlfriend, Gabby Granado, who lives with me as well.
I come from Kansas; we're steak-and-potato boys. I grew up on meat.
Basketball, you're not always going to have your best, but you find ways. If I'm not shooting well, I can pass, I can play defense. There's other things I can do. I can take that to golf.
I've never played Cypress. And everybody says it's amazing. That's one course I'd like to play.
I kept hearing about my 54-hole record and I kept telling myself that records are made to be broken.
I could handle the basketball but I wasn't quick enough to move defensively. Offensively, I was fine. I could get around, I could do stuff, but defensively I wasn't quick enough. I couldn't keep up. That was the biggest thing. And that was at the Division II level.
It's been my experience that success in golf comes from not letting your mind wander from the shot you're about to hit.
I love to be at Topeka Country Club. It's where I grew up. That's one course I'd play every day.
I worked my whole life and dreamed my whole life of being a professional athlete.
It's nice to see the results. You work so hard and you want to see results to back up the work that you've done.
I think I proved what I always believed. That I'm pretty good.
I can't play video games because I have that addictive personality. If I started playing video games I wouldn't stop.
I always just wanted to be successful. I didn't know what it was, what I was going to do.
Adrenaline is a huge deal. All of a sudden you start hitting the golf ball a little bit farther. You learn to stay within yourself and what you have to do to calm yourself down and stay within your game plan.
People probably growing up said U.S. Open wouldn't suit me, because I'm a long hitter, I'm a bomber.
My dad had me on the golf course. It was just something I could do with my dad.
If I'm not driving the golf ball, now I can rely on something else to really get me through. It took me a while to get my game to that position, but I feel like I'm comfortable doing that now.
I'm comfortable playing aggressively.
I love Quail Hollow. I think it's one of the big boy golf courses we play. I just don't think there's really a bad hole on it.
It's frustrating not to play well.
I'm becoming a more complete player where I believe I can compete more week in, week out, especially in major championships.
I'll never forget where I came from, and I'll never forget who I am.
It took me a lot to learn to control adrenaline; and other sports you use adrenaline to your advantage.
My dad never forced me to do anything. But if I did it, if I decided to go play catch or basketball, he was hard on me. You had to do it the right way if you were going to do it. He never let me win.
I wouldn't be where I am without my dad.
I thought the opportunity to play golf 12 months a year would give me a chance to go where I wanted to go.
When I got hurt and had surgery on my left shoulder, my arm was in a sling for over a month but I could play Ping-Pong right-handed. I started playing and got addicted.
And the question about if I ever dreamed of making the putt on the last hole of a U.S. Open when I was a kid, no, I didn't. But I hit a lot of game-winning shots on the basketball court when I was a kid.
Being a father now puts life in perspective. My whole life it's all been about trying to win. And now I'm trying to make a better life for my son than I've had.
I'm always thinking and so even if I'm not on the golf course I'm mentally thinking.
I never let myself get ahead of myself.
Obviously I have no problem wearing pants in competition, but sometimes we're out here in the summer and it's so hot.
I always wanted to play at the highest level. I didn't care what sport it was; I just wanted to play at the highest level.
For years, I felt like I was just whacking at the ball, trying to see how far I could hit it, especially with the driver. Whatever the coach I was working with at the time told me to do, I would just go along with it.
When I see the ball going in the hole, I'm a completely different player.
I love to play three-quarter iron shots. They take a lot of extra movement out of the swing, which increases my chance of hitting it solid with the face square to the target.
I can hit a lot of drivers, be aggressive, and attack from the fairway.
I'm not going to abandon the power game, but I'm going to be sure use it to my advantage.
I rely on my ball striking more than anything.
There are going to be bad things in your life, a lot of ups and downs, but the only thing you can control is your attitude. And if you do that, in the end good things will happen.
Life's not always going to be bells and whistles.
I've always been a pretty good ball-striker, I've relied on my ball-striking in my whole career, my athletic ability. But the short game and putting has kind of held me back in majors.
I'm trying to get better on and off the golf course at all times so I think it's a work in progress all day long.
I don't have to be perfect with my ball-striking, because I have other things that can pick me up, that's been a big confidence boost for me, knowing I don't have to be perfect; I can still contend and have a chance to win.
I like to play aggressively, and it just lets me go for even more shots.
There's men and women who sacrifice and do so much for us so I can go out and play a game of golf and live my life under freedom.
Everybody expects you to play well, and when you don't have the results, that's tough.
I think of all my iron shots as punches - not punch shots, but how much pressure I'm applying to the hit.
But being a father is as good as it gets.
Taxes are nice in Florida.
I feel I'm a top player, I do.
Enjoy the pressure. Enjoy the stress. Enjoy being uncomfortable. And don't shy away from it, embrace it.
My dad worked nights. When I got home from school I was able to go hang out with my dad and play some golf.
Obviously I rely on my driving.
I went to school to Washburn to play basketball, and I always believed if basketball didn't work out I could fall back on golf.
My dad never let me win. I didn't beat him at golf until I was 13. I didn't beat him at basketball until I was 15. When we played each other, he was big and mean.
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