Tom Lehman Quotes

#1. That's my No. 1 goal. I want to be part of (captain) Tom Lehman 's team.

Fred Funk

#2. I started playing golf because I wanted to be good. After a while, you have to come to a decision of, 'Am I good enough or not?' If you say 'yes,' then it's a simple step towards deciding to be as good as you can be.

Tom Lehman

#3. The most beautiful thing about art is that there is no saturation point in creating!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. The game itself, I think, plays into the strength of my game, which has always been tee to green, hitting the ball consistently in play and managing my game. Putting has always been the one thing that's been a bit more erratic.

Tom Lehman

#5. When I putt well, I do very well. When I putt poorly, I struggle to be in the game.

Tom Lehman

#6. Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.

Marcus Aurelius

#7. There is no single concept of nature; it embraces everything that is fluid, changing, and mysterious. Ultimately, however, to "know nature" on earth is to live within it and to revere it in every way.

Carolyn Merchant

#8. The most satisfying accomplishment for me was winning the British Open in 1996. But the most rewarding times were the times on the mini tours.

Tom Lehman

#9. I've got one Aussie flag on my car. It would be nice to have two.

Tom Lehman

#10. What is "normal"? Everyone is unique. "Normal" is just a lie. There's no such thing as "Normal

Me

#11. When you - when you play golf with somebody, you spend four hours or more walking with somebody, usually, you learn something about them that you didn't know before.

Tom Lehman

#12. I think it's easy to enjoy anywhere that you play where you feel like you got a chance to win a lot.

Tom Lehman

#13. I just can't stomach playing poorly. More than anything, I hate not getting the most out of my game.

Tom Lehman

#14. Life with out purpose is like a sailboat with out it's sail, with out one ... you'll get nowhere.

Timothy Pina

#15. I think if you look at most successful people, if you ask most of them, their biggest influence was their dad.

Tom Lehman

#16. I think if you are going to base your whole life on what you do on the golf course, you are up for a lot of ups and downs.

Tom Lehman

#17. I think that more than the winning, the weeks where I don't play well are what drive me the most.

Tom Lehman

#18. It's okay to be afraid. Just don't let it get the best of you. If you do, it will slowly creep inside you until you're completely paralyzed. Fear has that effect, unless you bravely face it head-on. When you accept fear, it actually makes you stronger.

Kevin J. Donaldson

#19. Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop
Than when we soar.

William Wordsworth

#20. I think you only hold U.S. Opens on great courses.

Tom Lehman

#21. To have faith doesn't mean you get any less frustrated when you don't do your best, but you know that it's not life and death. Take what you're given, and when you continue to work hard, you will see results. That will give you the confidence you need to keep going.

Tom Lehman

#22. Like most kids, my dad played. He would drag us out to the course and make us shag balls for him and caddy and all that kind of stuff.

Tom Lehman

#23. I play with a lot of guys who say they're a five handicap, and they shoot 110. And then you play with guys who say they are a 20 and they shoot 75.

Tom Lehman

#24. The attack on Clinton on terrorism is entirely politically inspired by the right-wing of the Republicans, and has no basis in fact whatsoever.

Sidney Blumenthal

#25. I think that major championships are as much about attitude as they are anything else.

Tom Lehman

#26. The world is not a great place because racist people come with a race type of agenda, and it don't make the world great, it makes it worst than ever.

Werley Nortreus

#27. I was way more nervous on the opening day of the Ryder Cup than the first round of any major. Every Ryder Cup match is like being in the last group on Sunday in a major.

Tom Lehman

#28. There are times when you feel like you give a great effort, you have prepared properly, and you got less than what you wanted. So on the one hand, you should feel really good about that and just let the results be what they are. On the other hand, you can't be happy with it when you finished 19th.

Tom Lehman

#29. I think the attitude I was trying to learn myself was to really try hard, to give a great effort, to really care, and to let the results go where they are going to go. But at the same time, I don't have to be happy, and I shouldn't be happy, with less than my best.

Tom Lehman

#30. Having nerves and feeling the pressure just gets you focused and gets your concentration level where it needs to be. I harness that nervous energy into a positive way.

Tom Lehman

#31. Knowing how to keep a friend is more important than gaining a new one.

Baltasar Gracian

#32. I had played in a tournament with the captain of the University of Minnesota's golf team, and he thought I was good. He called his coach, and the coach called me and recruited me. A five-minute phone call changed my life.

Tom Lehman

#33. I think one of the big issues with, you know, people who have strong faith in addition to competing is that conflict between accepting things the way they are, and wanting to compete and get better, and at what point are you in the right balance.

Tom Lehman