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A bad attitude is worse than a bad swing.

Payne Stewart

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Payne Stewart
Age: 42 †
Born: 1957
Born: January 30
Died: 1999
Died: October 25
Golfer
Springfield
Missouri
Attitude
Swing
Swings
Golf
Worse

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If somebody asks for my opinion, I tell them my opinion, whether it's what they want to hear or not.
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I don't think it's healthy to take yourself too seriously.
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We grew up with so much love in our family.
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I think that we all have something in common in that we have dreams. The thing about dreams is sometimes you get to live them out.
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We live in such a sheltered environment in the United States. I've been fortunate enough to have traveled all over the world, and I've seen things you only read about and see on the news.
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These guys who keep on playing but aren't winning, you've got to sit them down and let them figure it out and perform a little gut-check on themselves.
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Then I would have an occasional cigarette and then I started back dipping. I started dipping last year. My family has asked me again to stop, and I'm trying my best to do that.
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But in the end it's still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you've missed the point.
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This thing is for the game of golf, yeah, but trust me, the Europeans don't have that mentality.
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I didn't hesitate to kiss my father in public. And that's how I tried to raise my children. We're physical.
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Raymond Floyd. The man knows how to control situations. He was experienced. He didn't let me get overly excited he kept me in check. It allowed me to free myself up, and I played really well with him.
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Not that money is a driving force. It's an honor to play for your country.
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I'm 42 now, what I would consider prime time.
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Invariably something happens at a U.S. Open where the golf course gets out of control one day, they have one pin that's out of control. It always seems to happen. But they've gotten better about the height of the rough.
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The two-piece ball I switched to spun too much. One shot would go the distance I thought it should, then the next one would fall short, and then the next one would go long.
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For a while, I think in 1994, it got to where I didn't want to practice.
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For one thing, when you're playing as well as I was at the time, you think you can play with anything. That isn't true, of course, but I didn't know it then.
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People who have never had an addiction don't understand how hard it can be.
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