Trent Dilfer Quotes

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

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.

I'm quite good at golf. I'm not amazing, but I play a lot.

The game of golf doesn't come rushing back to you. Last week I made a couple of fundamental mistakes that I probably wouldn't have made in the heat of the battle back when I was in my heyday, and those things have got to come back.

If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.

Golf is supposed to be fun, but I don't think anything is fun if you're not doing it reasonably well.

I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made - my swing is pretty hot.

Hit the ball pretty solid. Haven't played a lot of golf this year, so was really unsure of what it would be like. I've been playing pretty well lately, especially hitting the ball solid.

I used to play golf. I wanted to be a better player, but after a while, I realized I'd always stink. And that's when I really started to enjoy the game.

You go out on the practice range, and something kind of clicks, and you start hitting the ball very crisply. And you're sure that you've found it, the holy grail - that all you have to do is hold your hand in a certain way. Then you go out on the golf course, and it's completely disappeared.

I wanted to become good at golf because I saw a lot of really successful people being good at it - and I planned on being successful.

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

The mediocre golfer generally is one who is too lazy to play better.

If a caddie can help you, you don't know how to play golf.

People ask me, 'Would you ever want to play professional golf?' And I'm like, 'No. No, no, no, no. Just because I can hit a good shot every now and then doesn't make me a pro.'

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

Really in all my years on Tour, in the U.S. Open I probably played great golf in two of them, out of maybe 20, so it's a lot of work.

Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.

My golf score is really bad. I don't know. I'm definitely not a good golfer. Off the tee box, I can drive it about 275, and I'm in the fairway about 99% of the time. It's my next shot that needs work.

For me, take Tiger Woods. I always thought he was great, but I never truly understood how good he was until I had the chance to go to Tiger Woods Golf Camp. He taught me how to swing and was hitting the ball, and this dude was unreal.

It was cool for a couple of weeks, but how much bad golf can you play?

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.

This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.

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