Top 138 Quotes & Sayings by John Daly - Page 2

I've had enough of worrying about everybody else. Now I'm taking care of me.

It's nice to finally be my own person.

I'm an OCD neat freak. I can't stand messes. I make my bed every morning. Laundry. I do it all.

Coming down the 18th, your heart's pounding, and the hair is sticking straight up on your arms - there's no feeling like it.

I was always the one asking everybody else if they were O.K. I never talked about my problems. I didn't want to admit I had problems. I just let 'em build up. I didn't want anybody to know I was hurtin'.

Patrick Reed has become a hell of a player.

I can sit here and hit all the balls and chip and putt all day long, but if you're not playing competitive golf... there's nothing better than competitive golf.

I'm a kind of go-getter.

My father gave me some Jack Nicklaus MacGregor clubs when I was six years old. He cut down some of the shafts, but they were men's clubs, so they were heavy.

I love the fans here in Australia.

I know there's a lot of guys would love to see me fail.

In '92 I got my first coach and had it for two, three years. My wife hated it.

We weren't the kind of family that talked about our problems. We were a close family, in a kind of faraway way. It wasn't a being-with-each-other kind of close. We all went our own ways.

I still wake up every day, so I'm winning.

I'm about a 20-handicapper with a guitar. I can only play three songs on my own album. I did the lyrics, not the music.

I don't want to be average.

Pretty much my whole career, I have been aggressive. I have always been a guy that goes at pins. That's kind of the way I've been all my career, and I don't know, really, if I can change.

I wasn't a silver-spoon kid on the golf course growing up.

It's a lot easier knowing you can't do something than knowing you shouldn't.

You need 100 percent concentration on golf to succeed.

A bad day on the course doesn't have to mean a bad night and a bad week and you get to scream at your agent.

Golf is day-to-day. It's shot to shot; it's not four days at a time.

A lot of people would love my career. I'm not satisfied with it.

I'm not the most religous person in the world, but I think the good Lord up there has blessed me.

I've always been a quick putter, so I should never get the yips. But I got 'em. I got 'em bad.

I'd like my first Ryder Cup appearance to be in the United States.

Golf is my passion, and so is great barbecue.

I'm really good at math and history, but I suck in English.

I'm the luckiest human being that ever walked.

I make a lot of bogeys and a lot of birdies.

I like to have this gut to put my elbow on it when I putt because I did it for so long. I just feel healthier this way.

I know I'm not the only guy that's had problems in life. And it seems to me that a lot of athletes shy away from talking about things that may have happened to them or their families.

It seems there always something coming up for me during Masters week, but that's not an excuse to play good or bad golf.

Money is just paper that gets us through life.

I've had surgery on my knee and both feet and my elbow.

I wasted a lot of my talent in the '90s because the money was so big, and I was making so much money, I didn't care to practise as much. That is my only regret.

I've always said that I play for the fans.

I don't like watching golf on TV. I'd rather play.

I've always said that it's none of my business what other people think of me.

I guess when we get older, we try so hard to get our game back. Sometimes it happens, and sometimes it doesn't.

It's nice to worry about playing golf and not all the other stuff.

I wasn't this nervous playing golf when I was drinking. It's the first tournament I've won on the PGA Tour in a sober manner, so it's a great feeling knowing I can do it sober. I don't think two years ago I could have pulled this off.

I learned you can't drink whiskey and play golf.

I've got the drinkers and the smokers and the eaters on my side.

How you frame an issue shapes how it is viewed by others. Great advocates frame their ideas as problems that need solutions.

Everyone has addictions and my problem is that I have 5,000 of them. If it's not drinking, it's gambling; if it's not gambling, it's eating anything from burgers, doughnuts to M&Ms. The only addiction I don't suffer from is chasing women.

There are probably some things I could do to keep my flexibility up, but I'd rather smoke, drink diet Cokes and eat.

Most change initiatives either fail or fall far short of original (perhaps unrealistic) expectations. More often than not, resistance is cultural in nature, the result of what James O'Toole so aptly characterizes as "the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom."

I enjoy the oohs! and aahs! from the gallery when I hit my drives. But I'm getting pretty tired of the awws! and uhhs! when I miss the putt.

I don't think I've ever stepped into a gym - they won't let me smoke there. I just thank God Miller Lite isn't as fattening as most beers. If I cut back on beer, though, I'd look anorexic.

Seems I used to do everything like I was on a mission. If it was alcohol, I wanted to drink till I couldn't see straight. If it was golf, I wanted to beat everybody's brains out. If it was driving, I can get there faster'n you can. It's not anybody's fault, I guess. I was stubborn as hell. I had no direction.

Life is nothing but a memory. People who dwell on the bad ones aren't going to have a whole lot of good ones coming up.

I will just put four or five extra packs of cigarettes in my bag and I will be fine.

I can tell you one thing. I've done this my way. I don't have anybody to blame for this win but me, and I love it.

Do I have to know rules and all that crap? Then forget it.

I hit the ball as hard as I can. If I can find it, I hit it again.

My slogan is who needs fitness when you've got great equipment.

This fitness thing is blown out of proportion. What am I going to do on a treadmill - smoke a cigarette and drink a diet Coke?

I believe nicotine plus caffeine equals protein.

I was never able to have three of four beers. One's too many, and ten just ain't enough. Basically it's the way I've been since high school.