Johnny Miller
I was always groomed by my dad to win the U.S. Open.Collection: Dad
Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.
It's been a great run. I've done everything I can do announcing wise.
I always felt that I would rather be out fishing or home with my family than at some cocktail party with a group of VIPs.
If I had been in the gallery, I'd have gone home.
Nobody ever heard Jack Nicklaus say 'I don't know' about anything.
There are plenty of guys who played great golf, had great careers and only won a few majors.
Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.
Match play really exposes your character and how much of a will to win you have in your heart.
Look, I'm not trying to be critical when I'm on the air.
The mental aspect of golf is what makes golf such a great sport.
For me, 'choking' is just another term in golf.
I don't want to brag, but I do more homework on the course than any other announcer. I chart the greens to get all the breaks. I walk down into the greenside bunkers. I walk into the fairway bunkers to see whether a player can reach the green from them.
Most announcers play pattycake, pattycake with the players they're covering.
If you don't like my announcing, you don't like me.
In golf, 'close' is like the north and south rim of the Grand Canyon.
All my friends were retiring, and it got to the point where I was like, 'Hey, how come I'm not retiring?'
I was always known as the 'Desert Fox.'
I've had two lives. The golfing part... the younger generation sort of heard about me but maybe didn't realize I wasn't too bad at times. Then the announcing part.
Everybody has some part of their game that is easily influenced to choke.
I usually listen to my gut, so to speak, and my wife.
I try to really say what I think is happening, and I'm pretty forthright. I obviously hold back some things. But pretty much, what I see and feel, I say on the air.
I've always felt how players handle the pressure was the most interesting part of golf.
NBC sort of let me do my thing. They never told me what to say and what not to say. It was pretty weird.
I was tough on myself when I didn't finish off a tournament right.
When I was at my peak, I would go into streaks where I felt like it was almost magic, that I could knock down the pin from anywhere with my irons.
I remember, when I won at Tucson by nine shots in 1975, I would say the average iron shot I hit that week was no more than two feet off line. It was unbelievable.
I never really wanted to be No. 1 and a big shot, have people playing up to me all the time. I wasn't comfortable with any of it.
Guys who chum it up are just OK. Guys who are great players are loners.
You can be a guy who won 18 majors, but that doesn't mean you'll be a great Ryder Cupper. That's the rarest golf there is.
The hardest weeks for me are when I get to a course that I've never been to before or one that has been through a redesign.
I do like to point out the trick putts, the ones that look like they go one way but actually go another. I think the audience likes to know when a putt looks like it's two inches outside left, but it's actually two inches outside right.
People need to know that when I was interviewed when I played, I would really pat myself on the back when I did well and tell you how good I was playing, but I'd also tell you when I choked or I was playing terrible. I told it like it was.
Golf is the greatest sport of all to see if you can handle pressure.
I grew up in an era where the perfect drive was a line drive, with quite a bit more spin.
When people pick the best drivers of all time, nobody ever picks Lee Trevino. But when he played, like at Tanglewood at the '74 PGA, he missed one fairway in 72 holes.
Tiger's swing when he won the Masters by 12 shots - I loved that swing.
I've played with amateurs for a million years, and they just don't hit many flush shots.
It's not so much what you accomplish in life that really matters, but what you overcome that proves who you are, what you are, and whether you are a champion.Collection: Softball
It's not what you accomplish in life that matters; it's what you overcome.Collection: Motivational
When Nicklaus plays wells well, he wins. When he plays badly, he finishes second. When he plays terribly, he finishes third.Collection: Golf
I played so bad, I got a get-well card from the IRS.Collection: Funny
Pebble is a piece of sacred ground. They say it's the greatest meeting of land and water in the world. This course was heaven designed - just the way it fits on the land.Collection: Golf
Every day I try to tell myself that this is going to be fun today. I try to put myself in a great frame of mind before I go out - then I screw it up with the first shot.Collection: Fun
Nobody ever heard Jack Nicklaus say "I don't know" about anything.Collection: Golf
The dollars aren't so important... once you have them.Collection: Golf
Sports are 90% inspiration and 10% perspiration.Collection: Success
If you are a bad putter, you will not make a putt. If you have a tendency to chili-dip wedges, you'll be chili-dipping them all over the place for sure. Whatever your weakness, it will come up in spades during the Ryder Cup.Collection: Weakness
Golf's Holy Grail - a genius course.Collection: Golf
I'm searching for the perfect swing. I'm searching for something that's not there. I tried twetny different things today and nobody else out there would have done that. This game is too tough. If I'd have known, I'd have taken up tennis or something. I have a chance. But if you're a betting guy don't bet on me.Collection: Taken