Raymond Floyd Quotes

Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don't grow up.

Golf is the only game I know of that actually becomes harder the longer you play it.

I don't like anything that's "just an escape." To me the best part of golf is that, unlike my tennis game, I can actually get better. I've probably reached my plateau in tennis, but in golf I have a lot of room for improvement. I really enjoy working on my game. I like practicing. I chart my rounds.

I never played a round when I didn't learn something new about the game.

It's more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I'm naive, where I'm a novice.

In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.

I've matured, I understand the game much more, which can be natural as you grow up.

As a kid, you don't know what's going on at the time. But once you get older, you start to realize it.

You never stop learning from this game. That's the crazy thing.

You gotta learn a lesson as you go through life.

The decision to go to Milan, as everyone knows, made me mature as a man. It was a big chance and perhaps too big for the man I was at the time.

We all have to go through our own experiences of growing up.

I grew up pretty fast because I had a lot of older brothers and sisters.

I'm learning from every game and trying to make a difference.

Even if you've never picked up a club, or if you've been playing for a long time, there's always something new to learn from playing golf. That's the beauty of the game. You never stop learning.

I was always taught, even as a kid, playing against grown men, you get better.

You only learn if you're given a crack at things.

Sometimes you have to let young people develop.

I've always had the speed, but the experience comes along naturally.

My kids have really brought me into maturity on another level and I really appreciate them for that.

For me, I've gotten better at that since I've gotten older. I never was good at that when I was younger.

One thing I can say is that as I've gotten older, I've gotten younger. I've grown up but I've kind of immatured (but matured!) but I've allowed myself to be a kid. When I was a kid, I was so much of a professional and carried myself that way. It was crazy.

Golf is not, and never has been, a fair game.

I'm a firm believer that before you can go anywhere, you have to conquer the level that you are at, just like young kids do it today with video games, they have to finish one level to go to the next one. Conquer one level at the time, and only then you'll get where you want to go to.

When I was a kid, I slept on rubber sheets, but now, I'm a man. And I can take the wetness!