Johnny Miller

“I've always felt how players handle the pressure was the most interesting part of golf.”

“All my friends were retiring, and it got to the point where I was like, 'Hey, how come I'm not retiring?'”

“If you don't like my announcing, you don't like me.”

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

“Everybody has some part of their game that is easily influenced to choke.”

“Most announcers play pattycake, pattycake with the players they're covering.”

“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.”

“I remember, when I won at Tucson by nine shots in 1975, I would say the average iron shot I hit that week was no more than two feet off line. It was unbelievable.”

“People need to know that when I was interviewed when I played, I would really pat myself on the back when I did well and tell you how good I was playing, but I'd also tell you when I choked or I was playing terrible. I told it like it was.”

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

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

“There are plenty of guys who played great golf, had great careers and only won a few majors.”

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

“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.”

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

“When people pick the best drivers of all time, nobody ever picks Lee Trevino. But when he played, like at Tanglewood at the '74 PGA, he missed one fairway in 72 holes.”

“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.”