Greg Norman Quotes

You create your own luck by the way you play. There is no such luck as bad luck. Fate has nothing to do with success or failure, because that is a negative philosophy that indicts one's confidence, and I'll have no part of it.

On 18 you've got to drive it up a gnat's ass.

If I had won ... all those other championships, my life might be totally different, but I didn't win. It's not going to affect my life.

I don't see myself playing or adjusting my schedule for senior tournament golf.

I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father.

Putting is a very personal affair.

You don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, but you want to get rid of the bathwater so the baby can swim the next couple of days and be OK.

When you're playing poorly, you start thinking too much. That's when you confuse yourself.

There is no room on the golf course for anger or self-pity.

I'm not interested at all in playing more than 12, 15 tournaments a year on an annual basis because like all the old guys out here on this Tour, we've played golf for nearly 30 years of our lives.

What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough.

To me I've just really, really found a relaxed, peaceful side of my life and I'm enjoying it.

Know your strengths and take advantage of them ...

I am a winner. I just didn't win today.

Aptitude starts with attitude.

I think it's great the opportunity is given to all of us really to come out and play major championships after the real major championships have gone beyond us.

I wouldn't call it bitter. I think it's just sweet. I've always believed my life seems like it's gotten better and better as each decade has gone by. So I don't see any I don't see any bitterness about it.

People in this room must have back problems, I'm sure some of us do, and it is really, really one of the worst pains and debilitating parts of your body that you can actually have because you really can't do anything in your life when you have it.

You know, like I said, I'm not going to adjust my Senior Tour schedule.

When I turned 50, I said to myself, well, if this is what it's like turning 50, I can't wait to turn 60 because I still felt very, very mentally and physically good, outside my back surgery.

It's not the victories that count to me. It's the quality of how you deliver your losses and the quality of how you deliver your victories.

Our success is a direct result of knowing how to market a brand and having the right people representing the brand.

Well, I think any national championship is an extremely important championship to play in.

I always wanted to be the best I could be at whatever I did. I didn't want to be the number one golfer in the world. I just wanted to be as good as I could be. I work hard, I push myself hard, and I probably even expect too much of myself.

The players have competed on the level the last 25 or 30 years are always going to be the players that compete at a high level. These guys practice hard, they work on their game, they still hit the ball extremely well.

I can honestly say in my entire career, I've never gone around a golf course and not mis-hit a shot, but today I never missed a shot. I hit every driver perfect, every iron perfect. I'm in awe of myself.

I've always lived to seize the moment, to squeeze every drop of expectation out of myself for whatever that moment gives you.

My doctor asked me how many golf balls I had hit in my career. I'm lying there in bed calculating somewhere between four and five million golf balls I had hit to do that on my body.

Let's do something to wake these people up.

Being away for the weekends, and me being the international player that I have been for those 30 years, I've spent a lot more time flying around the world, playing different golf tournaments around the world.

That's why we have practice rounds. We make the adjustments as we go around, try and find out how to play the golf course the best we can. No big deal, it's nothing to me, it's the same for me as it is to everybody and we're all trying to understand it.

So my game is solid. So that obviously makes me feel confident, that like anybody else in this field, you name them, I feel like I've got the ability to win the golf tournament just as much as they have, and that's the way I'm going to take it.

I would say that it's quadruple what I've had when I've won major championships in the past. I've gotten faxes and phone calls from all over the world. It's been overwhelming. It's really changed my opinion of humanity.

We've got to abide by the rules. We have to protect it. The game of golf at a professional level is so clean. We are our own judge, jury and executioner. If we don't do what we think is right, the game might get away from us.