Top 52 Quotes & Sayings by Johnny Miller

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American athlete Johnny Miller.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

John Laurence Miller is an American former professional golfer. He was one of the top players in the world during the mid-1970s. He was the first to shoot 63 in a major championship to win the 1973 U.S. Open, and he ranked second in the world on Mark McCormack's world golf rankings in both 1974 and 1975 behind Jack Nicklaus. Miller won 25 PGA Tour events, including two majors. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1998. He was the lead golf analyst for NBC Sports, a position he held from January 1990 to February 2019. He is also an active golf course architect.

American - Athlete | Born: April 29, 1947

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All my friends were retiring, and it got to the point where I was like, 'Hey, how come I'm not retiring?'

Johnny Miller

I never really wanted to be No. 1 and a big shot, have people playing up to me all the time. I wasn't comfortable with any of it.

Johnny Miller

I don't want to brag, but I do more homework on the course than any other announcer. I chart the greens to get all the breaks. I walk down into the greenside bunkers. I walk into the fairway bunkers to see whether a player can reach the green from them.

Johnny Miller

Match play really exposes your character and how much of a will to win you have in your heart.

Johnny Miller

I was always groomed by my dad to win the U.S. Open.

Johnny Miller

I always felt that I would rather be out fishing or home with my family than at some cocktail party with a group of VIPs.

Johnny Miller

I've always felt how players handle the pressure was the most interesting part of golf.

Johnny Miller

I usually listen to my gut, so to speak, and my wife.

Johnny Miller

I've had two lives. The golfing part... the younger generation sort of heard about me but maybe didn't realize I wasn't too bad at times. Then the announcing part.

Johnny Miller

I try to really say what I think is happening, and I'm pretty forthright. I obviously hold back some things. But pretty much, what I see and feel, I say on the air.

Johnny Miller

The mental aspect of golf is what makes golf such a great sport.

Johnny Miller

I was tough on myself when I didn't finish off a tournament right.

Johnny Miller

If you don't like my announcing, you don't like me.

Johnny Miller

Tiger's swing when he won the Masters by 12 shots - I loved that swing.

Johnny Miller

Guys who chum it up are just OK. Guys who are great players are loners.

Johnny Miller

Everybody has some part of their game that is easily influenced to choke.

Johnny Miller

If I had been in the gallery, I'd have gone home.

Johnny Miller

In golf, 'close' is like the north and south rim of the Grand Canyon.

Johnny Miller

People need to know that when I was interviewed when I played, I would really pat myself on the back when I did well and tell you how good I was playing, but I'd also tell you when I choked or I was playing terrible. I told it like it was.

Johnny Miller

The hardest weeks for me are when I get to a course that I've never been to before or one that has been through a redesign.

Johnny Miller

Look, I'm not trying to be critical when I'm on the air.

Johnny Miller

Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.

Johnny Miller

You can be a guy who won 18 majors, but that doesn't mean you'll be a great Ryder Cupper. That's the rarest golf there is.

Johnny Miller

When I was at my peak, I would go into streaks where I felt like it was almost magic, that I could knock down the pin from anywhere with my irons.

Johnny Miller

For me, 'choking' is just another term in golf.

Johnny Miller

I grew up in an era where the perfect drive was a line drive, with quite a bit more spin.

Johnny Miller

There are plenty of guys who played great golf, had great careers and only won a few majors.

Johnny Miller

Golf is the greatest sport of all to see if you can handle pressure.

Johnny Miller

Most announcers play pattycake, pattycake with the players they're covering.

Johnny Miller

When people pick the best drivers of all time, nobody ever picks Lee Trevino. But when he played, like at Tanglewood at the '74 PGA, he missed one fairway in 72 holes.

Johnny Miller

Nobody ever heard Jack Nicklaus say 'I don't know' about anything.

Johnny Miller

Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.

Johnny Miller

I remember, when I won at Tucson by nine shots in 1975, I would say the average iron shot I hit that week was no more than two feet off line. It was unbelievable.

Johnny Miller

NBC sort of let me do my thing. They never told me what to say and what not to say. It was pretty weird.

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I've played with amateurs for a million years, and they just don't hit many flush shots.

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I was always known as the 'Desert Fox.'

Johnny Miller

It's been a great run. I've done everything I can do announcing wise.

Johnny Miller

I do like to point out the trick putts, the ones that look like they go one way but actually go another. I think the audience likes to know when a putt looks like it's two inches outside left, but it's actually two inches outside right.

Johnny Miller

Sports are 90% inspiration and 10% perspiration.

Johnny Miller

Every day I try to tell myself that this is going to be fun today. I try to put myself in a great frame of mind before I go out - then I screw it up with the first shot.

Johnny Miller

The dollars aren't so important... once you have them.

Johnny Miller

When Nicklaus plays wells well, he wins. When he plays badly, he finishes second. When he plays terribly, he finishes third.

Johnny Miller

Seve wore his emotions on his sleeve. You could see how much the guy cared about winning.

Johnny Miller

I'm searching for the perfect swing. I'm searching for something that's not there. I tried twetny different things today and nobody else out there would have done that. This game is too tough. If I'd have known, I'd have taken up tennis or something. I have a chance. But if you're a betting guy don't bet on me.

Johnny Miller

I played so bad, I got a get-well card from the IRS.

Johnny Miller

Golf's Holy Grail - a genius course.

Johnny Miller

If you are a bad putter, you will not make a putt. If you have a tendency to chili-dip wedges, you'll be chili-dipping them all over the place for sure. Whatever your weakness, it will come up in spades during the Ryder Cup.

Johnny Miller

It's not so much what you accomplish in life that really matters, but what you overcome that proves who you are, what you are, and whether you are a champion.

Johnny Miller

Pebble is a piece of sacred ground. They say it's the greatest meeting of land and water in the world. This course was heaven designed - just the way it fits on the land.

Johnny Miller

It's not what you accomplish in life that matters; it's what you overcome.

Johnny Miller

Nobody ever heard Jack Nicklaus say "I don't know" about anything.

Johnny Miller

I don't think anywhere is there a symbiotic relationship between caddie and player like there is in golf.

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