Top 113 Quotes & Sayings by Jason Day

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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Jason Day

Jason Day is an Australian professional golfer, PGA Tour member and winner of the 2015 PGA Championship. He is a former World Number 1 in the World Golf Ranking, having first achieved the ranking in September 2015. Day first broke into the world's top ten in June 2011, rising to world number nine after his runner-up finish at the U.S. Open. In February 2014, Day won his first WGC title, the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship and would win it for a second time in 2016. With his 2016 win, he joined Tiger Woods and Geoff Ogilvy as the only multiple winners of the WGC Match Play. He went on to win his first major tournament at the 2015 PGA Championship, scoring a record 20 strokes under par and rising to number three in the world rankings.

You've got to come out and fire on all cylinders and get yourself up the leaderboard and show people that you're there and you're ready to win.
Just to be able to say you're No. 1, you are the best golfer on the planet, just for one day, would be the best thing ever. Knowing that you were the best in the world would be pretty neat.
If you're going to have a bad attitude, you may as well not even tee it up that week because you probably won't play good anyways. — © Jason Day
If you're going to have a bad attitude, you may as well not even tee it up that week because you probably won't play good anyways.
The biggest waste of time of my life was playing 'Call of Duty.' But I got really good at 'Call of Duty' - a little bit too good at that time.
My goal is to be the No. 1 golfer in the world, and I want to chase Tiger.
There's a lot of spotlight that comes along with being the best in the world.
I tend to watch the score board a lot.
My sister ran away for four years; she was living on the streets. I didn't know where she was, and then I was getting in trouble.
To be able to know that I can push myself a little further than you think you can was so important. And that it's a mental barrier more than anything. You can break through it.
I think the stress of being No. 1 in the world is more of a motivating factor for me just because I don't want to lose it.
Rest is huge because if you're sleep-deprived, that can definitely run into the mental side of the game and can definitely hurt your game if you're playing tournament golf.
Golf is so selfish - it's so much about how do we get better and get to the next level.
It's very stressful being the No. 1 player in the world. You're in the limelight a lot. You've got more things to do when you get to tournaments, more things to do off weeks. But I wouldn't change it in any way because this is exactly where I want to be. I want to try and stay here as long as I can while I can because nothing beats this feeling.
It really is amazing that some days you'll come out and you'll feel like you can beat anyone, and then some days you come out and you've got no confidence in the world, and you can't break an egg with a hammer.
If you don't believe in yourself, somewhere or another, you sabotage yourself. — © Jason Day
If you don't believe in yourself, somewhere or another, you sabotage yourself.
'Golf Digest' had all the old school swings, and my favorite swing, ever, was Nick Faldo's swing. And it had all the greats, Ernie Els and Nick Faldo and all that stuff, and I had the pictures of their swing sequences on my wall.
The only two things that I think about in life is my family and golf. That's all I want to think about.
I've got to come into the day enjoying myself and go from there.
I need to improve my shorter stuff with my irons, from 100 to 175 yards. If I can hit a few more greens with those clubs and tighten up the proximity to the hole, that would help a lot.
I'm trying to adapt - they say you have to adapt to vertigo.
I look back on the influence my dad had on my life and career, and I just try to take the best parts of what he had.
I think I definitely like the solitude of golf.
I don't like to use the word 'legacy' because it sounds a bit like I'm full of myself, but I am trying to see how far I can take myself, how far I can push being the best in the world.
I have two mini dachshunds, Lola and Charlie.
I've got to really try and manage my patience out there.
When you have a lot of confidence and you feel like nobody can beat you, it's game over for everyone else.
My dad was the way he was, but he also gave me a motto: never say die. Just to keep pushing and pushing, fighting until the end. He put it in my head that you're always going to fight, and you're always going to beat them.
I've got good vibes up here in the Akron area, Cleveland area.
I was very poor when I was young.
I need to get better with my 3-wood and hybrid. Those are the clubs I missed the majority of my fairways with.
I use this app that keeps my handicap. As professionals, we don't keep handicaps. But as a kid, I was so excited about seeing how low I could get my handicap. So that's one app I really do use a lot.
If my dad was alive, I wouldn't have gone to boarding school, and I wouldn't have had the success I've had.
I'm motivated to be No. 1.
I remember not having a hot water tank, so we had to use a kettle for hot showers. So, you know, we would put the kettle on and go have a shower, and then my mum would come bring three or four kettles in, just to heat them up. And it would take five, 10 minutes for every kettle to heat up.
There is no real way to prepare yourself for having a child other than just getting thrown in the deep end pretty quick.
I didn't have a dollar to my name in 2006.
A lot of people underestimate rest, especially sleeping and recovery time.
It just flat-out sucks losing. It really - it doesn't feel good. — © Jason Day
It just flat-out sucks losing. It really - it doesn't feel good.
Sometimes your immune system gets a little heated, and you're more susceptible to getting some illnesses that way.
I've never been more motivated to be No. 1 in the world. I've never been more motivated to try to extend that lead from one to two. All the hard work that I've put into my game right now has paid off, but I've got to keep working hard to win as much as I can.
I have to work harder than what I am now to make sure that I stay on top of this and stay on top of the world and be competitive in major championships.
I'm still trying to be No. 1 in the world, like everyone else is out there.
I honestly thought I was going to win a major championship quicker than what I did, but it clearly took a little bit longer than expected.
I'm getting better and better each year that I'm playing golf on the world stage, and finishing runner-up only teaches you how to continue being patient - something that is key to our game.
I'm proud to partner with organizations that place an emphasis on and share my interest in giving back to the community. RBC has a rich history of doing this through their sponsorship of golf and the extensive ambassadorial program they have in place.
For some reason, every time I get a little bit under the weather, I've got zero patience.
I don't feel as though I am under any pressure to return to Australia, given I won the PGA Championship, and I am just hoping everyone back home will understand my situation. I just want to make sure I am there for Ellie and that she has my support when she has our second child.
I want to win every single tournament that I'm playing in.
This is a great thing, to make a living as a professional golfer, isn't it?
As I get older, my body isn't bulletproof, and it's starting to break down. And I'm still young, so it's something that I have to maintain, something that I have to work extra, extra hard, just as hard as my golf game, I have to work on my body as well.
When I get to 40, I'm going to re-evaluate everything and then go from there. Because when I get to 40, I would like to see where I'm at in my career because I might want to go, 'You know what, I'm done. I'm just happy with everything,' and I'm going to go off my merry way, and I'll probably never pick up a golf club ever again.
I look at that 10 PGA Tour wins, and I say to myself, 'That's not enough,' and it isn't enough for me. It's just 10. I want more than 10. — © Jason Day
I look at that 10 PGA Tour wins, and I say to myself, 'That's not enough,' and it isn't enough for me. It's just 10. I want more than 10.
It's quite nice to play on a golf course that, even though it is links, that there's not much wind, which is good.
Family comes first, and golf is second.
It's like Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy had a baby, and I was it. I've got Rory's length, and I'm hoping that I've got Jordan's touch.
Anything can happen, so you have to control your attitude and stay strong.
You can't pick up a golf club if your thumb hurts.
You could have all the tools in the world, but if you really don't want to be there, or if there's something that's off course that's playing on your mind... the game of golf is so mental, and if you don't have everything in the right order, it's very difficult to win golf tournaments.
The vertigo is a difficult thing: it just comes and goes whenever it pleases. I wasn't expecting it. I've had it before, and there have been years between stretches, and unfortunately it happened at the U.S. Open, and that knocked me off my feet.
It's O.K. to fail. Just keep putting yourself there. Once I started saying that and really believing that, over time, it just gradually gave me confidence.
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