Hale Irwin Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“New Zealand has a great reputation in America for golf.”

“The best quick tip in golf is to focus on your rhythm and balance.”

“Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.”

“Do I want to tackle a 230-pound guy who's running like a deer? Heavens no, no one in their right mind would. But there is something that drives me and compels me to stick my head in there and give it my best shot.”

“I still have the desire to succeed, and I've always felt success is measured by what you've done in the win column, not top 10s.”

“If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.”

“It's a long, hard, difficult process to make it to a national championship.”

“The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.”

“I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.”

“On the PGA Tour, guys finish in the top 10, make a ton of money and think they're great players. In my era, you had to win. We didn't settle for anything else.”