Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last.
Interpretation
Master the basics and rely on them for lasting success.
This quote emphasizes the importance of understanding the basic principles in any endeavor, particularly in sports or professional fields. It suggests that temporary or superficial solutions, like 'Band-Aid remedies', are ineffective for long-term achievement; genuine success stems from a solid foundation built on fundamental skills.
In practice
A coach might use this quote to inspire athletes about the importance of practice.
There's more to be learned here [St. Andrews] about course design than anywhere. Collection bunkers, false fronts, bump shots. The fundamentals of design became fundamental because of what's here. And it happened accidentally. Or maybe accidentally on purpose.
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.
A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course. A lot of guys can go out and hit a golf ball, but they have no idea how to manage what they do with the ball. I've won as many golf tournaments hitting the ball badly as I have hitting the ball well.
All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.
I don't think about winning the Masters as part of the slam. You want to win the Masters because of what it means to the game.
I've been working every year since I started acting, and I got many awards before I won the Oscar for 'The Queen.'
When I was 26, I wrote my first mystery, 'The Thomas Berryman Number', and it was turned down by, I don't know, 31 publishers. Then it won an Edgar for Best First Novel. Go figure.
For so long, I looked at myself as literally a kid who was talented who would go up and down the pool. That's it. Nothing else. Very few people knew who I really was.
If you want to win, you have to beat the big teams in Europe, and Juventus are awesome.
Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing expands possibilities like unleashed imagination.
I think that at the start of a game, you're always playing to win, and then maybe if you're ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.
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