Top 35 Fuzzy Zoeller Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I’ve never been to heaven and, thinking back on my life, I probably won’t get a chance to go. I guess the Masters is as close as I’m going to get.”

— Fuzzy Zoeller

2. “When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game.”

— Fuzzy Zoeller

3. “When things are going good they just keep going good.”

— Fuzzy Zoeller

4. “Everybody saying you can’t do this, you can’t do that. I don’t know why. Guess if you listen to it, you can convince yourself of it.”

— Fuzzy Zoeller

5. “If the pressure is getting to you, whistle. In a barely audible way. It’s the best way I know of to let go of tension. Music gets your mind off the situation, and the act of whistling melts the tension out of your body.”

— Fuzzy Zoeller

6. “I accept the fact that I’m going to miss it sometimes. I just hope I miss it where I can find it.”

— Fuzzy Zoeller

7. “A million thoughts went through my mind. What little mind I have.”

— Fuzzy Zoeller

8. “They talk about Amen Corner but there’s so much more to it than what meets the eye on this golf course.”

— Fuzzy Zoeller

9. “Life is not a bowl full of cherries, there’s good and bad stuff.”

— Fuzzy Zoeller

10. “I’m glad I don’t have to make a living farming. Too much hard work. Too many variables you don’t have control over, like, is it going to rain? All I can say is, god bless the real farmers out there.”

— Fuzzy Zoeller

11. “There is something magical about that green coat. I mean that sincerely. It’s a very special week, and being able to wear that green jacket. It’s made my whole career. It’s special.”

— Fuzzy Zoeller

12. “I’m not a great player, but I’m a damn good one.”

— Fuzzy Zoeller

13. “You’ve got to have the guts to not be afraid to screw up. The guys who win are the ones who are not afraid to mess up. And that comes right from the heart.”

— Fuzzy Zoeller

14. “Every shot makes someone happy.”

— Fuzzy Zoeller

15. “Arnie, you’re going to have to buy a bigger jet.”

— Fuzzy Zoeller

16. “Because you pray after you play.”

— Fuzzy Zoeller

17. “The greatest thing about golf, there’s no end to it unless you’re dead. You just go from here to the Senior Tour.”

— Fuzzy Zoeller

18. “I hate golf to be tricked up. To me it’s a fun game.”

— Fuzzy Zoeller

19. “It’s fun when the ball is going in the hole and things are going right, but it’s a miserable game when things aren’t going well.”

— Fuzzy Zoeller

20. “Newspapers do a good job telling me what happened yesterday, but they’d be a lot more impressive if they could tell me what’s going to happen tomorrow.”

— Fuzzy Zoeller

21. “Golf isn’t first on my list anymore. There are a lot of things ahead of golf and I have to go ahead and do those things so I can play golf. I’m tired of hurting. Tired of fighting pain.”

— Fuzzy Zoeller

22. “I think I can be competitive. Heck, anybody who can walk to the first tee here has a chance.”

— Fuzzy Zoeller

23. “I hope everybody’s had fun, because I’ve enjoyed my ride. I can tell you that. Now it’s time to step aside and let some other young kid come in and win. Hopefully, they will, too.”

— Fuzzy Zoeller

24. “There’s a lot of great people out here, I just appreciate it and hope everybody has had fun because I’ve enjoyed my ride.”

— Fuzzy Zoeller

25. “It’s nice to walk into a club and see your picture. Then you know you’ve done something good.”

— Fuzzy Zoeller

26. “I wasn’t sure I’d ever win again. Every time I got close, somebody seemed to play a little better.”

— Fuzzy Zoeller

27. “If I hadn’t become a golfer, I doubt I’d be wealthy, because I don’t have the sort of ego that drives a person all day long. I might have wound up driving a tractor.”

— Fuzzy Zoeller

28. “I realize I’m not a machine. I’m going to make mistakes.”

— Fuzzy Zoeller

29. “At the British Open, I had my opportunities, but the ball just didn’t want to go in the hole on the back nine.”

— Fuzzy Zoeller

30. “You’ve got to gamble every once in a while in a round of golf. I’m not afraid to screw up.”

— Fuzzy Zoeller

31. “There are days when I can hear men tying their shoe laces in the gallery.”

— Fuzzy Zoeller

32. “I’ve been on the tour for 23 years and anybody who knows me knows that I am a jokester.”

— Fuzzy Zoeller

33. “A lot of amateurs are terrified of going up against a player who is clearly better than they are. They never play their best, because they aren’t comfortable. There’s one surefire way to get over that, and it’s to ask yourself, ‘What if I beat him?’ Imagine the possibility.”

— Fuzzy Zoeller

34. “I might not come home with hardware, but I’m winning.”

— Fuzzy Zoeller

35. “Every golfer has a little monster in him. It’s just that type of sport.”

— Fuzzy Zoeller

36. “You would think that Freddy Couples-Nick Price would be the team to beat, but I’ll tell you in skins, it’s a matter of just hitting it at the right time.”

— Fuzzy Zoeller

37. “What the hell, I paid my dues.”

— Fuzzy Zoeller