Fred Couples Quotes

When I'm playing well, I don't even take aim.

For me, I've just got to go out there, not overthink things, just play within myself and just allow the game to come me.

As far as swing and techniques are concerned, I don't know diddly squat. When I'm playing well, I don't even take aim.

I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

If I'm in the middle of a take and I start to think about what I'm doing, I just mess up and I have to stop and so I find that for me, you really need to trust your instinct.

I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where to place the ball, things like that.

Sometimes things just fall out of your head on the paper, and if you're smart, you learn not to touch them.

It's important not to think too much about what you do.

Honestly I just shoot the ball and it goes in.

When you're out there thinking too much, that's when you can throw the ball away a lot of times. Just play. When I don't think, I have fun.

A lot of times, my best games are when I'm not even thinking.

The shot will go smoothly only when it takes the archer himself by surprise.

I just play the game. I hit a shot and wait for the next guy to hit his. I don't think between shots-that's my nature.

I think I'm true to myself - you hear that actors have like plans. I'm gonna do this type of movie, then I'm gonna play this kind of character, and that'll get me from A to B. I've never done that. I honestly just follow my gut and I don't think you can go wrong with that.

You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.

How many situations can be resolved with less thinking?

Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.

I just feel my way through. If I had to give an acting class, I wouldn't know what to do.

If I just go out and play, the rest will take care of itself. That's what my parents taught me. They haven't been wrong yet.

It's always best not to be thinking a hell of a lot while you're acting, because you want it to be as spontaneous as possible, not too intellectual. Just behaving and listening to other people who you're doing scenes with. I always like the latter when it looks easy, even though it may not be.

We didn't talk about devil on the set. My mother and I didn't talk about it. Billy Friedkin and I didn't talk about it. It was a closet subject. But it was the best thing that happened because I had no idea what I was going.

You always go by your gut. That's the best you can do. You go by what you feel, and you say yes or no based on what it inspires in you.

When I'm in my groove there is no thinking. Everything just happens.

I don't have much of an organization at all. I listen to my heart.

Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.