Top 44 Paige Spiranac Quotes

My strength is short game. I love the creative side to it. You can hit a wedge a million different ways. The flop is my fave.

Everyone knew I was home-schooled. Everyone always said I was weird, and they’re kind of right. And I think people can always tell that I’m a weak link. So if you are going to bully someone, I’m an easy target.

People seem to think I got where I am because of the clothes that I wear. That’s unfair to me and unfair to all of my accomplishments.

The numbers don’t lie, so make sure to come in with an open mind when it comes to building your bag. For example, the brand that helps you drive it longer and straighter might not suit you best when it comes to your short game.

I want to be less of a role model and more of a mentor. I don’t ever want kids to put me on a pedestal and feel like they can’t talk or reach out to me. I want to be there for them.

I’m called rude things, and people say nasty stuff. It’s disrespectful, and as women we don’t deserve that.

I always seek people’s approval and I’m always never good enough.

I’ve never felt like I fit in. I always feel like I’m walking in the wrong direction or swimming upstream.

It’s hard for women every single day; we have to be nice, but not too nice, ambitious, but not too ambitious. It puts a lot of pressure on what we should and can be.

To be a professional golfer in the 21st century, you must be an athlete.

I was a tomboy. I played football and wasn’t afraid to get dirty. Shopping? Not for me.

I realized that I could save the world and I would still get hate. I’m never going to try and please other people. All I can do is live my truth and be a good person, and I will feel right and fulfilled. That’s what matters.

Golf is the absolute worst place for me to be because I am the exact opposite of everything that a golfer should encompass, should be, and I’m not.

I love myself and I love my body.

Different women feel empowered in different ways, and it’s not right to tell someone what they can and cannot do.

My weakness is hitting it straight under pressure.

I always feel like an outcast… it’s just always been very different to everyone else.

I started playing golf after a broken knee led me to quit my career as an elite gymnast. It wasn’t long before I became one of the world’s top-ranked amateur players.

Golf is really tricky. I feel like you either have to be a broadcaster, or a professional golfer or a golf instructor. If you’re not one of those things you don’t really fit in the game.

The gymnastics community is toxic. You just do what they say no matter what. It’s really scary.

I want people to see that golf is fun and it’s cool. You don’t have to be a professional golfer to enjoy it.

People say I haven’t accomplished anything, but I feel like I’ve done a lot. I’m an ambassador for the Cybersmile Foundation, which is an anti-bullying organization.

I’m very passionate about the game, but I don’t want to do it as a living. I feel confident in the path that I’m taking now and I didn’t feel confident in the path that I was taking with golf – I just realized that I don’t want to play professionally.

You know what, I was one of the top 25 amateurs in the world. I had a pretty good college career.

But one of my absolutely favorite things to do is go to comic book stores on the weekends. I’m a huge comic book nerd.

If someone is misrepresenting my playing career, I try to correct them. If they say something mean about me I’ll let them know it hurts my feelings. But I’ve noticed that the best thing for me is to show love back to them and show positivity and by doing that you gain a fan.

I’m introverted, and all my friends make fun of me because all I do is work out and play golf. I’m a grandma: stay in most nights and asleep by 9:30.

I love golf, I think it is a great game but I think there are a lot of things that need to change. I think it needs to become more progressive, more inclusive.

It wasn’t until last year that I figured out the problem: I just don’t love competitive golf. What I love is the game itself. I love being outdoors, practicing, and smelling the freshly cut grass at 6:00 a.m. as the sun rises. But I didn’t love travel, or pressure, or the mean-spiritedness of my competitors.

I may not go down in history as the best female golfer to ever play, however my intent is to do whatever I can to grow the game.

Golf is elitist, it’s stuffy, it’s exclusive and I hate that because I am not that and I was never welcomed in and I’m still not welcomed in.

I’ve done golf and fitness shoots, but in those I’m still fairly covered up.

Over the years, golf has evolved from a leisurely game of stick and ball into a competitive sport for highly skilled athletes. Players not only spend countless hours fine-tuning technique on the course, but also improving strength, stability, and endurance in the gym.

Growing up, I had a hair condition where my hair would fall out easily, and I had bad asthma.

In the age of millennials, women’s rights, and female empowerment, I hope my voice helps to encourage the next generation of great female athletes and golfers to possibly stop social injustices and prejudices from creeping into the game that I fell in love with at such a young age.

Because of the increased physicality of the sport, golf apparel companies began incorporating more performance-based materials into their designs, as well as updating styles that had fallen out of fashion over the years.

All I ever wanted was to be a golfer on the LPGA tour. That’s still my dream, but getting there has turned out to be a lot more complicated than I thought.

You may not even realize how much your off-the-rack clubs are affecting your game.

I respect and understand that golf is enveloped in tradition and that certain rules and regulations must be upheld.

When you have a lot of followers, you get the good and bad. So I had a career out of it. But unfortunately, I had people hating on me every single day.

For me, working with kids is one of my favorite ways to give back, and I refuse to let public opinion about whether I’m a ‘winner’ stop me from being a positive role model and mentor.

Whenever I’m stressed out or having a bad day, the one thing that gets me happy or back into like a good place of mind is being on the golf course. I love being out there, especially really early in the morning getting the first tee time out and just playing by myself. It’s so peaceful.

I actually was a competitive gymnast for the first part of my life. From age 6 to 12, I dedicated pretty much everything to that, until I got injured really badly.

Turns out, the enjoyment I receive from growing the game through content creation and collaborations, and the work I do with the Cybersmile Foundation around cyberbullying, is leaps and bounds above what I got out of playing competitively.