Nancy Lopez Quotes

Dr. Parent has been a great influence on my mental game. ZEN GOLF is the best book at connecting golf and the mind together. It's for everyone, it really helps, and you're really going to enjoy it.

Golf is the crack of sports. If you hit five good shots, you know you can hit six good shots. The next time you hit six good shots, you know you can hit seven.

The most successful way to play golf is the easiest way.

I play golf five days a week. I find that if I play seven days a week, I get stale.

The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.

Feel is the most perplexing part of golf, and probably the most important.

If I can figure out this wedge stuff and become a really good wedger, I'll be the number-one player in the world.

If I'm not driving the golf ball, now I can rely on something else to really get me through. It took me a while to get my game to that position, but I feel like I'm comfortable doing that now.

The average golfer's problem is not so much the lack of ability as it is lack of knowledge about what he should be doing

One of the worst mistakes you can make in golf is trying to force the game.

My grandpa would take me to the driving range and, I don't know, it didn't take me long to realize I'm a little different with golf. I have an eye for seeing things differently. Somehow I just see shots in my head.

The first time I played a PGA Tour event at Tucson was 1975. I came off the course on Sunday feeling very good about myself. I'd finished at even par, and I knew I could play even better if I worked at it.

The next time I cry about golf it will only be with joy. It's not worth crying over golf for any other reason. After all, it's only a game.

I've seen the bottom and I know the difference between good golf and bad golf.

I'm pretty much a self-taught player. My swing hasn't changed a whole lot, I don't think. But I watch a lot of people.

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.

As long as I keep enjoying my golf, then hopefully I'll be able to play well.

I don't hit it very far; I don't overpower a golf course, but I think I'm a pretty decent putter. At Augusta National, putting is premium.

I caddied for a guy who was a very good player, and he gave me a set of clubs, just a starter set: 5-iron, 7-iron, 9-iron, putter and driver. I just loved it. How I developed my swing was to just grab a club and start banging balls.

I want to improve my bunker, fairway and putting status because that's been my weakness over the last three years. If I can just focus on this, then everything else will come.

There is nothing in this game of golf that can't be improved upon if you practice.

Pretty it's pretty good for me because I'm over here in the winters. It's really improved my golf game.

When I'm swinging well, nobody hits the golf ball any better than I do.

My boring, mundane, diligent kind of golf works sometimes. Actually, it works all the time. And sometimes, on the greatest stages, it really does flourish.