Tom Kite Quotes

When I woke up Sunday morning at the Open and stepped outside and felt the wind and rain in my face, I knew I had an excellent chance to win if I just took my time and trusted myself.

You can always find a distraction if you're looking for one.

You still remember the bad rounds here, but they don't stay with you as long. The Champions Tour is great, it's competitive and it's a wonderful show, but it's not the real big league. The real big league is the PGA Tour, and we all know that.

I love it [Practicing in Texas]. You can find anything. You can practice rain, you can practice wind, you can practice on hard pan, you can practice on lush gold courses, you can find all the conditions you will ever encounter in Texas.

It was a lot of fun to play today. It was a great day and a great crowd.

[Another pro golfer on the program, Tom Kite , also recalled Stewart fondly.] He was always loud and boisterous and fun to be around and showed his emotions, ... He loved the interplay with the gallery and he loved the interplay with his fellow competitors.

or run like hell back to the Champions Tour.

I'm expecting to do reasonably well. I don't know what that is yet. I'm just kind of feeling my way.

If there is anything you ever need, just call. I'm a good listener.

On top of all that, I'm a blessed man. I truly am.

I have lots of confidence on this course. It's one of the best driving courses we play on the Champions Tour. Just enough rough to give you some problems.

This has been way too long a drought. I played terrible last year. I've worked hard on my game and felt very much in control of my swing this week.

This was way to long of a drought. These last two wins, it's been kind of sparse. When I first came out here and won five or six events, I was thinking this Champions Tour thing was pretty easy.

I played terrible last season. I have been working hard on my game and it's nice to see it fall into place this week.

A lot of the bunkering is designed more to save you than it is to penalize you.

But I'd say that probably 70 percent of the bunkering is more to give you an idea of the direction that you want to go or to save your ball from going into worse places.

Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested.

Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.

Give luck a chance to happen.

Golf course design is exciting.

Now the Kids Classic is one of the major fund-raisers for Children's Hospital. Since we started seven years ago, we've raised more than $1 million for the hospital.

We went around and looked and talked to a lot of foundations with those charities and decided upon the Children's Hospital. They had a golf tournament at the time, but it was a small event that didn't raise a significant amount of money.