A biography for Paul Caseyhasn’t been written yet.
“When I was young, I played a style of golf that was quite methodical - hit fairways and greens, over and over - but that doesn't get it done any more. You used to just have to take the lead on Saturday night and hold on for dear life on Sunday.”
“They do things better at grass-roots level in the States. It's just opportunity. If anybody shows an interest they throw money or equipment or facilities or whatever at them. They give them the opportunity and that's great. Every university has a golf team with 10 or 12 lads who want to be a tour player.”
“I've struggled with the U.S. Open setups. I'm going to need some stuff to align. I'll be frank. If Rory McIlroy or Dustin Johnson plays the best golf that they possibly can play, I'd need something super human to beat them, plain and simply.”
“Listen, my home tour is the European Tour and if I had to choose one place to live, it would be England.”
“I know how to win.”
“Sometimes patience can be the most important club in the bag.”
“I think the Masters has always been the one which I felt I had the best opportunity to win.”
“Golf is whatever you want it to be. If your vision of golf is a turned-out country club with expensive members' rates and no women, okay, you can have that. But someone else might want to play in shorts, no shirt, holding a can of beer.”
“This game is amazing as it just moves on, it keeps going. So you can't get too wrapped up in making your mark.”
“Tiger is a funny guy. I want to beat him as badly as anybody else but I respect him. He has been very cordial, very nice to me - a gentleman.”
“I am absolute rubbish as an early riser.”
“I am not a saint - I am an aggressive golfer.”
“I've always had to do something that requires total involvement. It used to be snowboarding but I had to give that up after a few injuries.”
“There are a lot of places in the world that I have played and continue to go, which you could question... some human rights violations that governments have committed.”
“In 2009 I won three times but then suffered a rib injury that wiped out the rest of that year and really impacted how I swung the club. Then in 2010 I got divorced and then I dislocated my shoulder and lost my PGA Tour card.”
“By not engaging and not participating and not traveling to countries, you harden positions if you do that.”
“Americans do have a tendency to wind people up. When they are chanting U-S-A and there are lots of them, it just makes you want to beat them even more.”
“There's been a time where I've actually given up my European Tour membership because playing two tours was too difficult.”
“The Open Championship is obviously the one that's closest to my heart because it's my home major, my home championship, but the U.S. Open is second on my list.”
“I guess it's rare you get through a U.S. Open or any major without some kind of a hiccup.”