A biography for Johnny Millerhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“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.”
“Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.”
“The hardest weeks for me are when I get to a course that I've never been to before or one that has been through a redesign.”
“Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.”
“I was always known as the 'Desert Fox.'”
“Guys who chum it up are just OK. Guys who are great players are loners.”
“Match play really exposes your character and how much of a will to win you have in your heart.”
“Nobody ever heard Jack Nicklaus say 'I don't know' about anything.”
“I was tough on myself when I didn't finish off a tournament right.”
“I grew up in an era where the perfect drive was a line drive, with quite a bit more spin.”
“Tiger's swing when he won the Masters by 12 shots - I loved that swing.”
“It's been a great run. I've done everything I can do announcing wise.”
“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.”
“Golf is the greatest sport of all to see if you can handle pressure.”
“I try to really say what I think is happening, and I'm pretty forthright. I obviously hold back some things. But pretty much, what I see and feel, I say on the air.”
“If I had been in the gallery, I'd have gone home.”
“I was always groomed by my dad to win the U.S. Open.”
“I've played with amateurs for a million years, and they just don't hit many flush shots.”
“I always felt that I would rather be out fishing or home with my family than at some cocktail party with a group of VIPs.”