Tom Kite Quotes

#1. I wish my name was Tom Kite.

Ian Baker-Finch

#2. I very rarely saw Tom Kite around. I've talked to Tom about it. I don't think Michael Jordan needed to be on the captain's cart with Kite; he needed to be walking in the gallery, supporting them from outside the ropes.

Payne Stewart

#3. Youre always going to have some individual incidents that arent going to show off the Ryder Cup in the true form and spirit that it was made.

Tom Kite

#4. Golf course design is exciting.

Tom Kite

#5. You can only play one hole at a time.

Tom Kite

#6. You can always find a distraction if you're looking for one.

Tom Kite

#7. I won my tournament. I won the Silver Medal.

Tom Kite

#8. We went around and looked and talked to a lot of foundations with those charities and decided upon the Children's Hospital. They had a golf tournament at the time, but it was a small event that didn't raise a significant amount of money.

Tom Kite

#9. Leaders goal: Don't be afraid of vulnerability & transparency, (without being pitiful). People respond to authenticity.

Brian Houston

#10. It is a very positive event, being nervous. It allows you to do great things.

Tom Kite

#11. There are days when I go out on the court and I feel like I can't miss a ball.

Maria Sharapova

#12. But I'd say that probably 70 percent of the bunkering is more to give you an idea of the direction that you want to go or to save your ball from going into worse places.

Tom Kite

#13. The only thing that relieves pressure is preparation.

Tom Kite

#14. You know what I mean? Real and unreal, beautiful and strange, like a dream. It got me high as a kite, but it didn't last long enough. It ended too soon and left nothing behind."
That's how it is with dreams," said Priscilla. "They're the perfect crime.

Tom Robbins

#15. It's fun to get out in the field. I really enjoy that. It's fun creating.

Tom Kite

#16. The corporate outings were fun, but after doing them for 25 years, they got to be a little old hat.

Tom Kite

#17. I'm beginning to know myself. I don't exist. I'm the space between what I'd like to be and what others made of me. Just let me be at ease and all by myself in my room.

Fernando Pessoa

#18. Portability is for canoes.

Jim McCarthy

#19. Now the Kids Classic is one of the major fund-raisers for Children's Hospital. Since we started seven years ago, we've raised more than $1 million for the hospital.

Tom Kite

#20. It's a heck of a lot harder to stay on top than it is to get there.

Tom Kite

#21. You still remember the bad rounds here, but they don't stay with you as long. The Champions Tour is great, it's competitive and it's a wonderful show, but it's not the real big league. The real big league is the PGA Tour, and we all know that.

Tom Kite

#22. Give luck a chance to happen.

Tom Kite

#23. A lot of the bunkering is designed more to save you than it is to penalize you.

Tom Kite

#24. Our reporters do not cover stories from their point of view. They are presenting them from nobodys point of view.

Richard S. Salant

#25. It's a piece of property that, if you're going to have a development out here, you need to have a golf course because you need to take care of the effluent water being created by the development.

Tom Kite

#26. Never have a club in your bag that you're afraid to hit.

Tom Kite

#27. Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a television screen is not going to be tomorrow's leader. Television watching is passive. Reading is active.

Richard M. Nixon

#28. Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.

Tom Kite

#29. When I woke up Sunday morning at the Open and stepped outside and felt the wind and rain in my face, I knew I had an excellent chance to win if I just took my time and trusted myself.

Tom Kite

#30. Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested.

Tom Kite

#31. That was madness. You're never going to bring one of those down with a handgun.

Sean Penn