Payne Stewart Quotes

• 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

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• 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

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

  Payne Stewart

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

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• 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

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

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• 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

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• 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

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

  Payne Stewart

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• 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

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• 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

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Payne Stewart (31)

Birth:	30th January, 1957
Death:	25th October, 1999
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Golfer

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