Johnny Miller Sayings

#1. I don't think anywhere is there a symbiotic relationship between caddie and player like there is in golf.

Johnny Miller

#2. Look, I'm not trying to be critical when I'm on the air.

Johnny Miller

#3. It's not what you accomplish in life that matters; it's what you overcome.

Johnny Miller

#4. There's a gift in your lap and it's beautifully wrapped and it's not your birthday. You feel wonderful, you feel like somebody knows you're alive, you feel fear because it could be a bomb, because you think you're that important.

Aimee Bender

#5. If I had been in the gallery, I'd have gone home.

Johnny Miller

#6. I hate people who talk about themselves, as you do, when one wants to talk about oneself, as I do.

Oscar Wilde

#7. Seve wore his emotions on his sleeve. You could see how much the guy cared about winning.

Johnny Miller

#8. In any area of human endeavour, there is going to be mediocrity. You're going to find people who get money that they shouldn't get.

Bill Bryson

#9. 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.

Johnny Miller

#10. Nobody ever heard Jack Nicklaus say 'I don't know' about anything.

Johnny Miller

#11. I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.

Henry Rollins

#12. Sports are 90% inspiration and 10% perspiration.

Johnny Miller

#13. Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.

Johnny Miller

#14. Be lovely and do no harm.

Louise Erdrich

#15. For me, 'choking' is just another term in golf.

Johnny Miller

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

Johnny Miller

#17. The dollars aren't so important ... once you have them.

Johnny Miller

#18. Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn.

Leo Tolstoy

#19. 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.

Johnny Miller

#20. Sometimes I wonder what the difference is between being cautious and being dead.

Sue Grafton

#21. 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.

Johnny Miller

#22. When Nicklaus plays wells well, he wins. When he plays badly, he finishes second. When he plays terribly, he finishes third.

Johnny Miller

#23. Match play really exposes your character and how much of a will to win you have in your heart.

Johnny Miller

#24. I played so bad, I got a get-well card from the IRS.

Johnny Miller

#25. The mental aspect of golf is what makes golf such a great sport.

Johnny Miller

#26. Most announcers play pattycake, pattycake with the players they're covering.

Johnny Miller

#27. 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.

Johnny Miller

#28. In golf, 'close' is like the north and south rim of the Grand Canyon.

Johnny Miller

#29. Come on, let's go see if Aires taught you pool like he did math.

Katie McGarry

#30. 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.

Johnny Miller

#31. Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.

Johnny Miller

#32. If you don't like my announcing, you don't like me.

Johnny Miller

#33. Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.

Iris Murdoch