The cast clubs were a big part of it, too. I found I wasn't getting that instant feedback I was used to with a forged blade. The sweet spot is a shade bigger, and when I didn't hit the ball dead center, I didn't know it, because it still felt great.

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Then I would have an occasional cigarette and then I started back dipping. I started dipping last year. My family has asked me again to stop, and I'm trying my best to do that.

Payne Stewart

If somebody asks for my opinion, I tell them my opinion, whether it's what they want to hear or not.

Payne Stewart

Tiger is the greatest thing that's happened to the tour in a long time. He has brought incredible attention to golf at a time of year when football and the World Series always take precedence. Everything I've heard about him seems to be true.

Payne Stewart

Yes, I'm a patriotic person. For these people who disgrace the American way and burn our flag and do all of these things... I say, don't live here and disgrace my country. Go live in the Middle East and see how you like it.

Payne Stewart

If you can't laugh at yourself, then how can you laugh at anybody else? I think people see the human side of you when you do that.

Payne Stewart

Not that money is a driving force. It's an honor to play for your country.

Payne Stewart

These guys who keep on playing but aren't winning, you've got to sit them down and let them figure it out and perform a little gut-check on themselves.

Payne Stewart

I've just become more conscious about how much I do drink and how often I want to have a drink and things like that. I think being conscious of it will help me to control the urges.

Payne Stewart

Raymond Floyd. The man knows how to control situations. He was experienced. He didn't let me get overly excited; he kept me in check. It allowed me to free myself up, and I played really well with him.

Payne Stewart

We live in such a sheltered environment in the United States. I've been fortunate enough to have traveled all over the world, and I've seen things you only read about and see on the news.

Payne Stewart

I don't think it's healthy to take yourself too seriously.

Payne Stewart

That's why I'm very proud of being American. I'm proud to pay taxes. I pay a lot of taxes, but it sure beats the alternative.

Payne Stewart

I very rarely saw Tom Kite around. I've talked to Tom about it. I don't think Michael Jordan needed to be on the captain's cart with Kite; he needed to be walking in the gallery, supporting them from outside the ropes.

Payne Stewart

With the media, I could be quick and ugly and critical. I tend to wear my emotions on my sleeve.

Payne Stewart

But I'll tell you something: We had a big family discussion about it recently, my two sisters and I, and I pointed out that we all have the same genes as our mother and we're all susceptible to becoming alcoholics.

Payne Stewart

I went over before the British Open and played Valderrama thinking that I might make the team, might be a captain's pick. I made the effort to go over there.

Payne Stewart

This thing is for the game of golf, yeah, but trust me, the Europeans don't have that mentality.

Payne Stewart

I sometimes got distracted easily and allowed my mind to wander when I needed to be focused. It's quite subtle, really, and just being aware of it helps.

Payne Stewart

For a while, I think in 1994, it got to where I didn't want to practice.

Payne Stewart

People who have never had an addiction don't understand how hard it can be.

Payne Stewart

Invariably something happens at a U.S. Open where the golf course gets out of control one day, they have one pin that's out of control. It always seems to happen. But they've gotten better about the height of the rough.

Payne Stewart

For example, I wouldn't hesitate to sit somebody down if he wasn't performing, even if he was the No. 1 player in the world. I've been sat down before.

Payne Stewart

But in the end it's still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you've missed the point.

Payne Stewart

The cast clubs were a big part of it, too. I found I wasn't getting that instant feedback I was used to with a forged blade. The sweet spot is a shade bigger, and when I didn't hit the ball dead center, I didn't know it, because it still felt great.

Payne Stewart

I don't read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books.

Payne Stewart

I didn't hesitate to kiss my father in public. And that's how I tried to raise my children. We're physical.

Payne Stewart

We grew up with so much love in our family.

Payne Stewart

For sure I would be a very emotional captain. A very hands-on captain.

Payne Stewart

I'm 42 now, what I would consider prime time.

Payne Stewart

The two-piece ball I switched to spun too much. One shot would go the distance I thought it should, then the next one would fall short, and then the next one would go long.

Payne Stewart

For one thing, when you're playing as well as I was at the time, you think you can play with anything. That isn't true, of course, but I didn't know it then.

Payne Stewart

A bad attitude is worse than a bad swing.

Payne Stewart

Sammy Cahn

I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time.

Antony Beevor

Cleanliness is the scourge of art.

Craig Brown

If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

Ludwig Borne

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.

Albert Ellis

I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.

Colin Powell

As much as the banking system may not be terribly popular, it is an essential part of the economy.

James P. Gorman

Being a lesbian means I have the opportunity to love what is uncommon and I'm okay with that. I do not cry myself to sleep or am upset by the life that I lead because of who I care about. Because I accept the fact that it is simply love.

Jenna Anne

Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence.

Saul Williams

You decide every moment of every day who you are and what you believe in. The good news is you get another chance to improve in another second.

Unknown

I absolutely haven't set out to burnish a reputation as a macho figure by picking fights.

Michael Gove

Not too many people know who the editor is.

Julius Schwartz

Saudi Arabia makes a billion dollars a day, okay? They make a billion dollars a day.

Donald Trump

When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana.

Langhorne Slim

The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.

Charles Dickens

Detroit is really the most perfectly laid out city one could imagine and such an enchanting park and lake infinitely better than any town I know in Europe. It ought to be a paradise in about fifty years when it has all matured.

Elinor Glyn