Tom Kite Quotes


"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."
- Tom Kite
"You can always find a distraction if you're looking for one."
- Tom Kite
"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."
- Tom Kite
(Related: Time, Chance, Open, Rain, Wind)

"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."
- Tom Kite
(Related: Money, Time, Children, Golf)

"The corporate outings were fun, but after doing them for 25 years, they got to be a little old hat."
- Tom Kite
(Related: Corporate, Fun, Old, Years)

"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."
- Tom Kite
(Related: Children, Kids, Now, Years)

"Never have a club in your bag that you're afraid to hit."
- Tom Kite
"It's a piece of property that, if you're going to have a development out here, you need to have a golf course because you need to take care of the effluent water being created by the development."
- Tom Kite
(Related: Development, Being, Care, Golf, Property, Water)

"Golf course design is exciting."
- Tom Kite
(Related: Design, Golf)

"Give luck a chance to happen."
- Tom Kite
(Related: Chance, Luck)

"Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success."
- Tom Kite
(Related: Success, Fear, Failure)

"Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested."
- Tom Kite
(Related: Discipline, Being)

"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."
- Tom Kite
(Related: Idea, Direction, Want)

"A lot of the bunkering is designed more to save you than it is to penalize you."
- Tom Kite