Top 66 John Daly Quotes

I hate a mess.

Golf is day-to-day. It’s shot to shot; it’s not four days at a time.

If I go gambling the slots, some of my friends will come with me and play along with me. It’s not like I’m starting out with $500 a pull or $1,000 a pull. I go in there and play $25, and if I win, I play $100s.

I’m the luckiest human being that ever walked.

I’ve been honest with a lot of the problems I’ve had in life. Everybody has problems. They can relate to that.

I wanna have more majors than Jack Nicklaus.

I was young and dumb back in the ’90s, but I had a lot of fun.

I love the fans here in Australia.

I think what I realized is that I can’t believe I made it to 50 years old.

We weren’t the kind of family that talked about our problems. We were a close family, in a kind of faraway way. It wasn’t a being-with-each-other kind of close. We all went our own ways.

I guess you can say I always liked to take chances. Sometimes it works out. Sometimes it doesn’t.

Life is full of challenges and surprises, and I’ve had my share.

My dad being not the greatest dad in the world has made me a better parent.

In my life, I’ve seen everything, and one thing I know for sure is you can’t win in the federal court. You’re going against the government of the United States. You don’t beat a federal court, a federal judge, and the FBI – there’s no way.

I have osteoarthritis so bad… I can walk up a hill; I just can’t walk down one.

It’s amazing what a little money can do when it’s spent on the right reason.

I’m a kind of go-getter.

I’ve screwed up a lot, but I’ve always admitted it.

I’ve always said that I play for the fans.

I make a lot of bogeys and a lot of birdies.

Watch out for guys like Scott Piercy and Danny Willett. They both play really good on fast, fast greens.

The fans have always helped me get through good things and bad things on and off the golf course.

I think people relate to me because of the ups and downs I have had. I mean, I’ve shared a lot of strong emotions in my life, that I think maybe ’cause they believe I’m not scared to tell everybody I’m a human being.

I just don’t enjoy poker that much.

Osteoarthritis is a tough thing, brother. If my knee was broke, I would have had it fixed. But my situation is totally different. It’s painful as hell is all I can say.

I’m about a 20-handicapper with a guitar. I can only play three songs on my own album. I did the lyrics, not the music.

I love the European tour. I always have. But my home is the United States. That’s where I would rather play.

It’s nice to finally be my own person.

Coming down the 18th, your heart’s pounding, and the hair is sticking straight up on your arms – there’s no feeling like it.

I’m happy being around my family.

I’m not the most religous person in the world, but I think the good Lord up there has blessed me.

I’ve known Donald forever, and I know the bad things they say about Donald Trump is not true because I’ve known him as a friend for so long. I’ve seen what he’s done for all types of people. I know how many people call him a racist and all this, and it just makes me sick because he’s not.

I can’t stand to work out. I can’t stand to do a sit up; you know, I can’t stand to run.

I’m an OCD neat freak. I can’t stand messes. I make my bed every morning. Laundry. I do it all.

I can sit here and hit all the balls and chip and putt all day long, but if you’re not playing competitive golf… there’s nothing better than competitive golf.

My life is to play golf, sit home with the wife and kids, and do things with the family more than I used to.

I’ve always been a quick putter, so I should never get the yips. But I got ’em. I got ’em bad.

I don’t mind hitting the ball bad, but when I feel like I’ve hit the ball pretty good for four days and shoot an 81, it’s not golf.

I hate getting haircuts. It’s like going to the damn dentist, man.

I learned through the ‘Jack Nicklaus Lesson Tee,’ the cartoon. Back then, it was 1970 or ’69 when it came out. Learned the grip that way and everything in the cartoon… So that’s kind of how it all started for me.

I try to think of myself as a lion, bringing down the kill, controlling the jungle. A lion controls his jungle.

The U.S. Open is not John Daly’s style of golf.

I’ve had it with the USGA and the way they run their tournaments. The USGA loves to embarrass guys who play in their tournaments.

I’m not a big gambler anymore. I like to do it. I enjoy it instead of trying to make money off of it, because I realized you can’t make money gambling.

It sucks getting old.

I guess when we get older, we try so hard to get our game back. Sometimes it happens, and sometimes it doesn’t.

I’ve tried to lose weight two or three times, and every time, my golf game was horrible.

I wasted a lot of my talent in the ’90s because the money was so big, and I was making so much money, I didn’t care to practise as much. That is my only regret.

My knee is screwed. I had the meniscus cut out.

I never had any alcohol on the golf course that I remember, except for one time, and that was the L.A. Open.

I’m a fighter. I’m a survivor, and I’ll get through anything people can throw at me.

I think my worst enemy is me.

I’ve had surgery on my knee and both feet and my elbow.

Everybody fights demons. Some are worse than others.

A bad day on the course doesn’t have to mean a bad night and a bad week and you get to scream at your agent.

I don’t like watching golf on TV. I’d rather play.

In ’92 I got my first coach and had it for two, three years. My wife hated it.

I know I’m not the only guy that’s had problems in life. And it seems to me that a lot of athletes shy away from talking about things that may have happened to them or their families.

Perception’s not reality.

I look at the PGA, and it was like winning the lottery.

I don’t want to be average.

Anybody who knows me… when I’m tired, I sleep with my eyes open.

I’m a guy who’s either going to go full bore, or I’m not going to do it at all.

I’ve had enough of worrying about everybody else. Now I’m taking care of me.

It just seems like the Democrats always have a problem when a Republican gets in office.

I’ve always said that it’s none of my business what other people think of me.