Hale Irwin famous quotes

03-25-2025

Golf is the only-est sport. You're completely alone with every conceivable opportunity to defeat yourself. Golf brings out your assets and liabilities as a person. The longer you play, the more certain you are that a man's performance is the outward manifestation of who, in his heart, he really thinks he is.
-- Hale Irwin

#Sports #Heart #Golf
I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.
-- Hale Irwin

#Opponents #Talent #Underestimate
It's a long, hard, difficult process to make it to a national championship.
-- Hale Irwin

#Long #Championship #Process
Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.
-- Hale Irwin

#Games #Emotion #Behavior
My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
-- Hale Irwin

#Mom #Dad #Athlete
People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.
-- Hale Irwin

#People #Who You Are
People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are.
-- Hale Irwin

#Believe #People #Would Be
Do I want to tackle a 230-pound guy who's running like a deer? Heavens no, no one in their right mind would. But there is something that drives me and compels me to stick my head in there and give it my best shot.
-- Hale Irwin

#Running #Giving #Guy
Feeling tired should almost never be an excuse, because your body has huge reserves of energy. But if you eat badly, stay out late, drink too much, and so on, you'll pay a price on the course.
-- Hale Irwin

#Tired #Feelings #Energy
On the PGA Tour, guys finish in the top 10, make a ton of money and think they're great players. In my era, you had to win. We didn't settle for anything else.
-- Hale Irwin

#Winning #Player #Thinking
You can talk about strategy all you want, but what really matters is resilience. On the last nine holes of the Masters or the Open, there's going to come at least one point when you want to throw yourself in the nearest trash can and disappear. You know you can't hide. It's like you're walking down the fairway naked. The gallery knows what you've done, every other player knows and worst of all, you know. That's when you find out if you're a real competitor.
-- Hale Irwin

#Real #Golf #Player
I still have the desire to succeed, and I've always felt success is measured by what you've done in the win column, not top 10s.
-- Hale Irwin

#Winning #Desire #Done
Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work.
-- Hale Irwin

#Careers #Iron #Made
The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.
-- Hale Irwin

#Football #Independent #Thinking
New Zealand has a great reputation in America for golf.
-- Hale Irwin

#Golf #America #Reputation
Competitiveness is a personality thing and competitive people don't become pushovers the day they turn fifty.
-- Hale Irwin

#People #Personality #Age
You can talk about strategy all you want, but what really matters is resiliency.
-- Hale Irwin

#Golf #Want #Matter
I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour...I always felt that was too young of an age for that.
-- Hale Irwin

#Fall #Golf #Age
If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.
-- Hale Irwin

#Expectations #Littles #Nervous
To be successful in anything, a person must always want to be better, not only than your opponent but better than your last performance. Done correctly, being competitive is a wonderful way to always try to be a better person by learning from your mistakes and capitalizing on your successes.
-- Hale Irwin

#Softball #Sports #Motivation
I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
-- Hale Irwin

#Sleep #Mind #Bed
I can forgive the body breaking down. It's a little tougher to forgive that mental lapse.
-- Hale Irwin

#Forgiving #Littles #Lapses
The best quick tip in golf is to focus on your rhythm and balance.
-- Hale Irwin

#Golf #Focus #Balance
The USGA doesn't want to recognize the fact that today's players are better than ever. They seem willing to do anything to prevent us from shooting scores that would make us appear better than the great names of the past.
-- Hale Irwin

#Golf #Past #Player

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