Patrick Cantlay

“I just keep trying to go about my business as best I can. I think if you put yourself in that position enough times, you're going to win your fair share.”

“If your eyes and ears are open and you're playing professional golf, you can meet some cool people. Not only cool and successful, but somebody you really enjoy spending time with, who can be lifelong friends.”

“The problem is I might hit a club once and know it's not for me. I'm not going to spend too much time trying to get a club in my bag. But if I think a potential club is better, I'd like to be able to put it in right away.”

“One of the tricks I used when I was going through all the really tough times, I actually had a physical white board in my apartment and I would have eight things that I needed to check off for the day.”

“I've drawn a lot from my friend Fred Couples.”

“I think that's how I'm wired. I try and make everything about the process.”

“I try to swing all the way to the follow through, with no real inhibition.”

“For a while, I couldn't care less about everything. Not just golf. Everything that happened in my life for a couple months didn't feel important. Nothing felt like it mattered.”

“I'm surprised every time I come to a golf course where they say it's recently been redone and then there's no real shaping of golf shots. It's just how far can you hit it and grab your driver on every hole and hit it as high and hit it as far as you possibly can.”

“I think those that know me - I keep a pretty tight circle - and in general, the people that are closest to me are the people that I trust and then I kind of let my guard down.”

“Ordinarily, I wouldn't be too happy leaving myself a 40-footer, but when you're trying to hit the ball to 40 feet you can be more positive. That's exactly where you're supposed to be. That's the correct spot, and, who knows, you could make the 40-footer!”

“I think lots of young people, and a lot of my peers, who through no fault of their own have had a lot of success from a young age, they might not appreciate things being good. It can feel like a given, a constant.”

“If I think it's going to be able to help my golf, I'd like to be able to play it. That maybe involves a little more testing than I'd like. But I'm not going to change my game to fit the equipment.”

“Any time coming back to a place that you've won before, I think it's advantageous.”

“I like being able to ask tough questions, to learn from someone who knows more than me.”

“You can always improve in all areas of the game.”

“People are going to promote themselves on social media anyway and we've definitely seen that. The question is whether the Tour should also be incentivizing that.”

“I've been looking at the game from an outsider's viewpoint, and it's given me a different perspective that I think will be helpful to me.”

“I think how I feel about something doesn't necessarily affect my performance one way or the other.”

“You play enough rounds and you're going to play poorly some rounds.”