A biography for Ian Poulterhasn’t been written yet.
“Playing the DP World Tour Championship at the Earth Course is always a great week.”
“If I stop playing golf today I can sit back with the kids and reflect on an amazing journey. I do it often. I think you have to feel that you are grounded in this crazy world I live in.”
“You don't want to let on how hurt you are because some people will see that as a sign of weakness, they might use it against you.”
“I have got closer to some of the guys through Twitter. I don't need to name names but I have found I have more of a connection with some players than I did before - not to say that I wasn't friends with them anyway but just that I'm better friends with them now.”
“I wouldn't change anything about my career. I don't need my legacy to be anything.”
“Unless you are clear in your mind and in a position to think clearly and know where you want to go, with confidence, then you're never going to be able to achieve it.”
“I have always treated golf as a job. Back in the day it was in a pro shop. That win opened another door, it was a way to jumping on the stepping stone to where I am today. That's the mental attitude you need to keep succeeding.”
“If I had to put my clubs away tomorrow and never play golf again, I'd be a happy man. I feel pretty proud of what I've achieved.”
“I don't care if someone wants to say something derogatory or spiteful anymore. As I've grown older I've become wiser to the fact that vindictive people take pride in trying to make other people feel bad. I enjoy my life. If someone doesn't like what I do, that's up to them, I really don't care.”
“I have always been confident. I know my own mind, what I'm able to do. I will never sit down and dwell.”
“I have never needed operations, I have had niggles the same as any other golfer after putting his body through 17 years of travel and a heavy playing schedule. I think I'm actually in pretty good shape considering the amount of hours spent hitting balls and sitting on an aeroplane.”
“To be able to go to place where friends and family fly in to watch me play, having lots of home support and enjoying Dubai, is always great fun.”
“No one has ever given me anything. No one gave me a tour card, no one gave me a US tour card, no one gave me a nice house and a Ferrari: I've had to work for every penny I have earned and I'm proud of that.”
“I've always said golf can be a turn-off - all those middle-aged men in bad jumpers. I want to be a bit more of a character.”
“I'm mad enough not to ever need a sports psychologist, because I really believe in myself.”
“You don't have to be a mathematician to work out that Rory McIlroy is going to have more chances at 25 than I am at 38. The clock is ticking. It would be nicer to be a multiple-major winner than a major winner. But it would be nice to be a major winner, at the minute!”
“I am not someone that is going to give up. I just don't do that.”
“I want to be the best at what I do when I go out to play golf, and so when I was building my house, I wanted the best.”
“I may not be in the office as much as I was at the start of the business but when a new range is launched - and we have two, a spring/summer and an autumn/winter collection - each year, all designs come through me first to make sure I am happy with them.”
“I never got to study psychology after leaving school at 15 but I know how to rationalise things and get the best out of myself.”