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"If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can."
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"Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble."
"You can be in Tokyo or Alberta at four in the morning in your hotel and you can still practice if you feel like it. A trombone cannot do that at four in the morning."
"Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast."
"Don't do anything in practice that you wouldn't do in the game."
"You can't hire someone to practice for you."
"Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice."
"Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest."
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"But it's very difficult, I can tell you I played the Czech Open a few times and it's very difficult just to go on to a scene where the course is prepared differently when the greens are fast and he's not used to it and they're hard as a rock and he's not used to it."
"But to be fair, if you take players from my era to now, the game has changed and the players have many more shots. They use them differently than we did. The speed of the game has changed."
"I just travel all the time. And I was just looking at the schedules now and starting the first week of October I will be every weekend with somebody at tournaments through Christmas. So it gets very difficult to just go away and not do that."
"If you go to school and practice for five days a week, it still gives you two days you can go and see your friends, you can go to the movies, you do whatever you like to do."
"I think talent is dangerous to have if you take it for granted. If you use it well and put hard work with it together, it's hard to catch that guy. And I think that's what you're seeing right now."
"I was between 2 and 3 in the world for two, three years. That's not exactly where I wanted to be."
"I'm certainly not sorry that there were some things I missed. You may think you're missing something at that time but later when you look at it, you didn't miss anything."
"I don't make a habit of watching tennis matches, but I try to watch all the major finals. I try to make time for that. So unless I have something going with the kids where I can't, I try to watch, and I enjoy that."
"Because in order to beat Jimmy, I had to get around the ball a little bit quicker so I wasn't always on defensive and catching the ball on last stride, that I had little more time. Once I was able to get little bit quicker, then it has helped me a lot."
"I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange."
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