Tom Watson
Tom Watson
Professional golfer who was a six-time PGA Player of the Year.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGolfer
Date of Birth4 September 1949
CountryUnited States of America
contention dreams feeling guys longer sleeping trouble
Some guys have trouble sleeping the night before an important round. I never have. Invariably, I sleep longer and better, and have more dreams, when I'm in contention and feeling pressure.
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The beautiful thing about the game of golf is you can play good golf and compete well into your later years, and you can't do this in basketball or football or baseball. But in golf, it's a longer live sport.
fun golf long
Golf will grow so long as it’s fun.
long ibm company
In other words, I realized that for IBM to become a great company it would have to act like a great company long before it ever became one.
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We're moving in the right direction, ... We need to emphasize not just low costs, but amenities like our riverfront development. We're trying to carve out an economic niche with plant-made pharmaceuticals that will create higher-paying jobs. And we're hoping to increase our intellectual capital with cancer research at the hospital's cancer center.
given
I guess I have never been much of a complainer. You just take what is given you, and don't complain about what you can't affect.
I always could putt. Part of my makeup, I always could putt.
age kansas match time won
From the time I won the Kansas City Match Play championship at age 14, I never wanted to be anything but a golfer.
certain life presence
You don't have to go to church to be spiritual, but there are certain times in your life that you know there is a presence of something very spiritual.
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I have a special feeling for Blue Hills CC, where I won perhaps the most important tournament of my life when I was 14 - the Kansas City Match Play Championship. It gave me a dream of becoming a professional golfer.
lived love played
I love the way the game of golf is lived and played in Scotland. I always have.
ball time
Any time you play in a USGA Championship, if you don't drive the ball on the fairway, you're dead. You're done.
quotes tournament
We tournament golfers are much overrated. We get paid to much.
A lot of guys who have never choked have never been in the position to do so.