Matt Kuchar

“I went seven years between 2002 and 2009 without winning. Then I did win in '09.”

“I grew up admiring Phil Mickelson. He loves competing, and he loves the fans' support, similar to me. In terms of my playing style, Steve Stricker and I are similar.”

“Sometimes in golf I've got 10,000 people watching me. Cameras are easy. Doing the Jay Leno show was easy.”

“I'm a pretty low-stress guy. I take what the golf course gives me. Some days, when I'm in full control, I'm able to fire at pins with 5-irons. Other days, I'm looking more toward the middle of the green.”

“I love getting up to my folks' house and playing golf with Dad. He's very involved with my off-course ventures, and I talk to him every third day.”

“I want to qualify for the Tour Championship. Being a Georgia Tech grad, playing at East Lake would feel like home.”

“I had a temper when I played junior golf and had my clubs taken away for slamming them on the ground. I learned very quickly that I didn't want my clubs taken away from me.”

“Golf's a great game, and you meet a lot of people along the way.”

“Golf has always been a game where you have to control both ends of the club.”

“I'm helpless in post-round, hole-by-hole interviews. I can't take you through most of the holes of winning the Players Championship, the U.S. Amateur or Ryder Cup matches. It's like golf amnesia.”

“I'm happiest playing a match with my dad and a couple of college friends, taking a few bucks off them.”

“I'm always a competitor. I'm not there just to have a good time. I want to play well and perform well.”

“I very rarely watch anybody swing. All I do is follow where the ball goes.”

“Going to a one-plane swing method has made me a much more consistent player. Even when I'm not on, I never get very far off.”

“There are so many aspects of the game that you can work on - you can drive it father, you can drive it straighter, you can hit your irons higher and more consistently, you can get better with your wedges, and you can always putt better. There's never an end to that striving to get better in golf.”

“Although I'm a scratch Ping-Pong player, there is no possibility of me beating a top professional.”

“I was always a guy who wanted to be associated with a brand that meant something to me, something I was proud to be associated with... I always wanted sponsors that felt good to be associated with me as well.”

“I almost didn't turn pro at all. I was tempted to be a career amateur. I worked as an investment banker for nine months after I got out of school, and the money was fantastic and promised to get even more lucrative.”

“I'd like to see something done about the long putters and belly putters. But I go back and forth on that. I've actually worked with a belly putter.”

“As a kid, I wanted to be a pro tennis player. I was pretty good; at the tennis academies I attended, I always 'played up' against older age groups.”