Hale Irwin Quotes
People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.
People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are.
If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.
Competitiveness is a personality thing and competitive people don't become pushovers the day they turn fifty.
I can forgive the body breaking down. It's a little tougher to forgive that mental lapse.
On the PGA Tour, guys finish in the top 10, make a ton of money and think they're great players. In my era, you had to win. We didn't settle for anything else.
Feeling tired should almost never be an excuse, because your body has huge reserves of energy. But if you eat badly, stay out late, drink too much, and so on, you'll pay a price on the course.
I still have the desire to succeed, and I've always felt success is measured by what you've done in the win column, not top 10s.
Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work.
I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour...I always felt that was too young of an age for that.
My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.
