Explore Quotes by Johnny Miller

For me, 'choking' is just another term in golf.

When I was at my peak, I would go into streaks where I felt like it was almost magic, that I could knock down the pin from anywhere with my irons.

Match play really exposes your character and how much of a will to win you have in your heart.

I don't want to brag, but I do more homework on the course than any other announcer. I chart the greens to get all the breaks. I walk down into the greenside bunkers. I walk into the fairway bunkers to see whether a player can reach the green from them.

I do like to point out the trick putts, the ones that look like they go one way but actually go another. I think the audience likes to know when a putt looks like it's two inches outside left, but it's actually two inches outside right.

You can be a guy who won 18 majors, but that doesn't mean you'll be a great Ryder Cupper. That's the rarest golf there is.

I never really wanted to be No. 1 and a big shot, have people playing up to me all the time. I wasn't comfortable with any of it.

NBC sort of let me do my thing. They never told me what to say and what not to say. It was pretty weird.

I usually listen to my gut, so to speak, and my wife.

I've had two lives. The golfing part... the younger generation sort of heard about me but maybe didn't realize I wasn't too bad at times. Then the announcing part.

In golf, 'close' is like the north and south rim of the Grand Canyon.

The mental aspect of golf is what makes golf such a great sport.

Look, I'm not trying to be critical when I'm on the air.

I don't think anywhere is there a symbiotic relationship between caddie and player like there is in golf.

Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.

It's not so much what you accomplish in life that really matters, but what you overcome that proves who you are, what you are, and whether you are a champion.

I played so bad, I got a get-well card from the IRS.

Pebble is a piece of sacred ground. They say it's the greatest meeting of land and water in the world. This course was heaven designed - just the way it fits on the land.

When Nicklaus plays wells well, he wins. When he plays badly, he finishes second. When he plays terribly, he finishes third.

Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.

Sports are 90% inspiration and 10% perspiration.