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Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course
Sep 29, 2025
It's amazing how much of this is mental. Everybody's in good shape. Everybody knows how to ski. Everybody has good equipment. When it really boils down to it, it's who wants it the most, and who's the most confident on his skis.
Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.
I run to see who has the most guts.
When I'd get tired and want to stop, I'd wonder what my next opponent was doing. I'd wonder if he was still working out. I'd tried to visualize him. When I could see him working, I'd start pushing myself. When I could see him in the shower, I'd push myself harder.
Competitive toughness is an acquired skill and not an inherited gift.
The most important attribute a player must have is mental toughness.
Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena..who errs, who comes short again and again; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who spends himself in a worthy cause.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.
It is not the critic who counts
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.
If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.
If you think you can't, you're right.
Attitude determines how well you do it.
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
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