Top 95 Majors Quotes

How can I intimidate Tiger Woods? I mean, the guy’s got 75 or whatever PGA Tour wins, 14 majors. He’s been the biggest thing ever in our sport. How could some little 23-year-old from Northern Ireland with a few wins come up and intimidate him.

I want to win a major, and hopefully I can win the four majors in one year.

Why did they do it? Beats the hell out of me. I was just a scared kid from Kentucky, and these guys had been up in the majors for a while. I guess it was because I was just such a helluva nice kid – if you’ll accept that.

If money titles meant anything, I’d play more tournaments. The only thing that means a lot to me is winning. If I have more wins than anybody else and win more majors than anybody else in the same year, then it’s been a good year.

The majors are going to be circled in, just like everyone else, but I’ve got to focus on every single week.

When Ozzie Virgil became the first Dominican player in the majors, his nationality was barely noticed. What the press and fans talked about was his skin color. He was the first black player on the Detroit Tigers, and a great deal of attention was paid to him as someone who crossed the color line.

We can argue about major championships and whether Tiger will ever surpass Jack’s 18 majors, but what can’t be argued is this: Tiger Woods is the most dominant, most skilled player we’ve ever seen.

There isn’t a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he’s such a great kid.

The majors, they have to control the distribution, the record outlets, the radio and, in some cases, even the venues. And downloading and pirating have also put pressure on the majors.

There’s no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.

I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.

Race to Dubai winner, playing in Ryder Cups, winning majors – these are all great parts of a career you want to have.

I wanted to be the Six Million Dollar Man as a child. I learned how to raise each eyebrow independently, just like Lee Majors.

Majors are important but so is every other tournament I play.

Willie Wells, Ray Dandridge, Leon Day, Buck Leonard, Quincy Troupe, Satchel Paige – earlier than when he was called up – Oscar Charleston and Josh Gibson. You see what kind of talent we had, and guys in the majors knew it too.

Majors are important but so is every other tournament I play.

I wasn’t ready for the majors when I joined the Pirates in 1955. I was too young and didn’t know my way around.

You count a man’s U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That’s something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.

For some reason, I can really tune in in the majors, and I have no idea why. They really get my attention.

Roland Garros is the only one of the four majors that is 15 days, and that is too long.

I think when you get to majors, there are definitely certain names and certain people that you’ve got to beat, and most of the time certain names and people pop up on the leaderboard. But that’s the game, and that’s what we’re here for.

There are plenty of guys who played great golf, had great careers and only won a few majors.

I was an undergrad math major and a grad student in computer science. I’m hugely introverted, not atypical of math majors.

You count a man’s U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That’s something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.

Wanting more majors, wanting more wins, almost feels like I think I’m being too greedy.

Playing in Japan suits me the best, but what I need is in the Majors. I felt that in order to do my job, I needed to change my job location.

I wasn’t ready for the majors when I joined the Pirates in 1955. I was too young and didn’t know my way around.

When I got to Cal, they tried to put me in safe classes, things I could succeed at. I went to Cal for an education. That’s definitely problematic. You see athletes taking majors that don’t add up to anything.

I’m liberal, but I watch the three majors. Obviously I watch MSNBC, also CNN and Fox, which is what I would call ridiculously to the right.

To be able to hold all four majors – the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, PGA – all concurrently I think is the Grand Slam. But a lot of people have a different opinions on that. People think you have to win it in the same calendar year.

The majors, they have to control the distribution, the record outlets, the radio and, in some cases, even the venues. And downloading and pirating have also put pressure on the majors.

I’ve started to show the consistency in majors I had in regular tournaments back in 1998-2000 when I was contending nearly every week.

Robinson was important to all blacks. To make it into the majors and to take all the name calling, he had to be something special. He had to take all this for years, not just for Jackie Robinson, but for the nation.

I would not have an event before the majors. I would build them up. It very rarely happens that a player plays the week before, wins the event, and then goes on to win the slam.

You know, majors are tricky. There’s a lot of pressure, and there’s a heavy load on individuals.

You still just got to play your game. No matter where you’re at, you’ve got to play your game, especially in majors. When you try to push and try to make things happen, that’s when you can make some big numbers at the majors.

I’m 37, I’m pretty fit and feel I have another eight years left – which means there’s 32 Majors still to go at.

It’s why Nick Price was my favourite golfer growing up. He managed to win majors, get to world No1 but did so with a nice-guy image. He showed that the two are not mutually exclusive.

Just because I keep getting close and don’t win these Majors, I must not panic.

Some people thought I’d be on the PGA Tour, that I’d win tournaments, play in majors, contend in majors, win majors. I thought they were crazy.

Now I’m giving up a little in the week-to-week tournaments but reaping the benefits in the majors.

I am happy to join Selina Majors in providing women with a fully comprehensive training program designed specifically for them. I was trained by men, and while that worked for me, I know a more supportive community for women wanting to join our profession will increase the participation.

I noticed the drama majors on campus when I was at Notre Dame. They just seemed to be freer spirits than the rest of us. There was joy in their work; they were the only ones studying something whose work made them happy. I envied that.

There are plenty of guys who played great golf, had great careers and only won a few majors.

We had staffed up to do ‘Doom 4’ internally in parallel with ‘Rage’. We also had our mobile and ‘Quake Live’ departments. We were taking a lot of steps to kind of provide a little bit more scope and protection for ourselves. And we certainly were listening to offers from all the majors about acquisition.

The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That’s when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists.

I wanna have more majors than Jack Nicklaus.

I need to play well in the majors; that’s been my key. That’s been something that I’ve created a pattern in the majors, and I just need to keep improving.

You know, I was once named Minor League Player of the Year… unfortunately, I had been in the majors for two years at the time.

These are pinnacles of our sport: majors. It’s where you want to play your best. There is something special about them. Two-week-long event, best-of-five.

I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don’t just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries.

I went to the University of Maryland for a year and was considering maybe, you know, being a medical doctor but decided my other interest was maybe flying airplanes in the Navy and just kind of changed my mind and changed schools and changed majors and decided to focus a hundred percent on that.

‘The Book of Love’ is the kind of James L. Brooks mainstream movie that the majors are ignoring.

The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That’s when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists.

I was an undergrad math major and a grad student in computer science. I’m hugely introverted, not atypical of math majors.

While I continue to work towards another opportunity with the Majors, I’m excited to grow my partnership with SeventySix Capital.

You still just got to play your game. No matter where you’re at, you’ve got to play your game, especially in majors. When you try to push and try to make things happen, that’s when you can make some big numbers at the majors.