David Tom Quotations

We're finding that it's reflecting one-to-one the voters at the polls. It reflects the populace.

Neither one of us got more than 1-up during the match. Tee-to-green I was a little bit sharper than he was. In the end, I was lucky to get away with a victory.

I don't have any problem with it whatsoever, and I wish her well.

I didn't go through my normal routine and it happened so fast because it was for double bogey. It was just one of those things and I'm not sure exactly what happened,

I don't know whether that was because I didn't sleep for a couple of days but now I'm starting to feel much better.

I felt good today, maybe a little sluggish this morning, but I don't know if that's just from lack of sleep or the medication,

I felt like he was in control. I was surprised when he missed a fairway. I was surprised when he didn't get a ball close to the hole.

I felt like the key to me having a good round today was feeding off of Chad Campbell. He played unbelievable. I was just trying to keep up. I made a couple nice putts there on the back nine that you're not supposed to make, but that's what you do when you have a hot round.

I firmly believe that when you give, you receive. I certainly can give a testimony to that in my life. This is a great place and I guess I try to make it a little better,

I feel good. Unless they said I had to get the procedure done next week, my plan was to be here.

From a selfish standpoint, that's two people who you know you'd have to beat.

I don't want any recognition for it, it's not about that. The Tour asked me to be on and I'm going to tell them what's going on.

If it was dead calm today, do you think she would be doing that? I think she would be playing well. I think it's a hard golf course, and you have to be there on every shot.

He was calling as a friend, ... He can count on me for some points.

What I saw in Phil is a guy who is very confident in what he's doing. I saw him approaching (the Masters) mentally like I've always seen Tiger approach it.

There are obviously superstars that win all the time, and it looks like it comes easy to them. Maybe it looked like it came easy to me because I played great, but on the inside, it's always a battle. To overcome all of that and win a golf tournament, it's the ultimate reward for all those emotions that you go through.

Just like everybody around here, in some way we know a lot of people personally that have been affected by this,

I think it has been good for me to be here, ... I feel good. I haven't seen any bad effects from the medicine, other than I feel a little tired in the mornings. I think that's because I take the medicine at night.

I think it's more willpower than anything else, wanting to win more than anything else.

I was a bit sluggish early in the week, ... I don't know if that's because I didn't sleep for a couple of days or what, but now I'm starting to feel much better. I really don't see it being an issue at all, unless for some reason I have an incident this week on the golf course, or off the golf course.

I was a bit sluggish earlier in the week,

I will be OK, and he can count on me for some points,

I was just trying to keep up. I made a couple of putts I wasn't supposed to make, but that's what you do when you have a hot round.

I was just trying to feed off what Chad was doing. He was hitting the ball close to the hole. I wasn't getting it so close so I had to make a couple long putts. It was a great day all around for both of us.

Just a fun day to play golf. I definitely think last week helped me, coming in here when we had tough conditions (the first two days). Then when it doesn't blow, and you can hit a normal shot, you're licking your chops that, hey, I can score here.

(I was) trying to find people we could house. Get them out of the shelters because that's a bad situation.

I was hoping Jack would win, ... Still, I was there for one of the greatest shots ever. I was standing down the fairway on 18, and I could see him running around back there on 17. That was kind of neat.

I was off the last couple of days with my iron shots and never got the ball really close. That was probably why I didn't win.

I would never even think to do something like that, but I guess that's the new generation. It's a different attitude. There are other things. I'd take the sunglasses off once in a while, but maybe I'm old school.

You always have to have the mind-set your opponent is going to make his putt, instead of getting upset or deflated by it.

We don't get an annual report in our locker. You go to the majors, they don't want you to know what's going on.

Voters will be surprised when they show up at their polling place and find they aren't on the rolls. There are a lot of things we don't feel comfortable with.

You knew where she was the whole time. It was like a Tiger-type following. You know where he is. You know where she was on he golf course. That says a lot.

When I got on Tour, this was one of the places I looked forward to playing. I've played (all of the courses here) before.

Though he pulled a bit of a surprise when he showed up wearing a hat for Round 1 of the recent PGA Championship, when thunderstorms were predicted. ''I'll wear a hat if I think it's going to rain or get windy.

With all the sideshows going on? I was proud of how I finished up.

With it playing shorter, there are more birdie holes than when it's playing long. Because I'm not one of the longer hitters. I like the way it is playing now.

First hole, making birdie, that kind of set the tone for the way the day was going to be.

What that tells me is that his misses are in the right spot, and he must be putting pretty well. That's what I can take from no bogeys.

What's the worse-case scenario? That our Super Bowl doesn't have all the marquee players.

At that point, they don't know if you're having a heart attack. I didn't know what was going to happen to me, really.

Did I hear she might make $10 million a year? I'd like to get half that much. And I've won a tournament.

Did a lot of good stuff today. I hit some bad shots, but overall, another good, solid round of golf and put myself right there with a chance to win the golf tournament going to the weekend. You know, that's what I'm here to try to do. So I'm in good position so far.

Count on me for some points next week.

During the whole process, they were all very cooperative. It's been a very orderly process.

There was a chance if it was real close to a certain area, they couldn't fix it. My nurse has the same problem, and they could fix her. But I was lucky. And it's 95 percent I'll never have another problem.

I started off kind of slow, but came back and ended up making a lot of birdies. I putted well and capitalized every time I hit a good shot.

It would've been nice to separate myself, but that's OK. I'm in good position, and I'll hopefully learn from my back nine today and do better tomorrow.

The more I thought about it there was too much uncertainty and thought it was better that I disqualified myself. I was probably the only one able to do that.

Days like today are the reason I play the PGA Tour. To have a chance battling the best player in the world and going through all emotions --that's what makes it fun.

As far as a guy leaving town with a million bucks, he's still going to pay some taxes to go to the city, so it will be good. It's going to economically bring some dollars in that they would not otherwise have if we would have pulled the plug on the golf tournament. So I think it's a very, very important week.

As a young boy, I always knew something like this could happen, ... I was barely affected. There are so many people that don't know what the future holds.

A lot of people are in bad shape and their lives have been turned upside down, ... You look at us, we have everything that we could ever want. I want to play great for those people, just like I want to play great for my teammates.

A lot of those people are screaming at him, sometimes when he's standing over a shot. It is awesome to watch.

It plays in your head. You see guys bail out from water all the time, knowing they can play it from anywhere else but out of water. It's tough to play that shot.

It's not one of those days where you can go out and make 16 pars and two birdies. It's just the type of course where you're going to make good bogeys out there even playing smart. So you have to be able to bounce back.

It's not the same as it's been in the past. It's going to take time to figure it out.

It's obviously good for the tournament. There's a reason that she's here,

It's right in the middle of Amen Corner. When the greens are really rolling, it doesn't get much tougher than that.

It's part of the new validation requirements that are pretty stringent. Any information that doesn't match exactly gets rejected.

It's special to play well in front of these people. The state has been good to me, the city has been good to me. If I can somehow come out on top, it would be one of those things that would be remembered.

That hole should be a little more downwind than it was (Thursday). It turned out more right to left into the wind. It made it difficult to get it down there.

It scared me enough that I want to do something about it right away, ... I don't want it to happen again.

It was like, 'Here we go again. I'm going to play good.

It was not one of those days where you can go out and make 16 pars and two birdies.

It was a great day all around for both of us.

It was a good thing it happened after the U.S. Open, because I felt like I had a chance to win there and I played terrible the last day. So that was a blessing.

I want to play well for myself, but at the same time, there is a lot of people out here that I'm excited to be playing for. I get excited. Hopefully, it will work out well this weekend.

They can dress it up as much as they want, but it's a regular event with a big purse. It's a great event. It's the best one we have.

It was just one of those iffy areas about whether or not a rule was violated and I was the only one that saw it,

She'll add a buzz to this tournament that otherwise wouldn't be here.

Exactly, ... I really don't see it being an issue at all, unless for some reason I have an incident this week on the golf course, or off the golf course. I certainly hope that that doesn't happen.

I'm not saying I'm close to being done or anything. But I have to get it now when I can, and when I do play well, capitalize on it.

I made a couple of nice putts on the back nine that you are not supposed to make, but that is what you do when you have a hot round.

I never asked, and I should have asked. If you know, it doesn't necessarily change your strategy, but it gives you a different mind-set. You know how powerful the mind is in this game.

In a way, (the rules) makes (the Masters) different, and it makes it special and it makes it unique. But then again, it's still a golf tournament. It's the players that make that tournament. It's Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods battling down the stretch that makes that event successful on television around the world. It's not how green the grass is on the No. 1 fairway.

I'm on medication for it and I'm going to get it fixed pretty soon. They're going to fix it so I never have to withdraw after playing nine holes ever again.

I'm just playing solid and I'm going to have to go out and do it again tomorrow, that's for sure. Because the way he played golf today ... he drove the ball fantastic, hit it close to the hole, so it just didn't look like he was going to struggle at all in any part of the game.

I'll be fine by Thursday. My sleep is just going to get better and my chest feels fine.

I'm anxious to get started tomorrow to see how I do, see how everybody else does on the redesign just because I think there's some unknowns about exactly how it's going to play.

If people would help, we would guarantee your money is going to go help somebody, not get caught in red tape. We're going to let people tell their stories, take pictures so they can put faces with where their money is going.

I'll tell him I don't see myself having any limitations at all,

I hit my first drive into a bunker, hit a good shot and made birdie, ... We're walking off the green, and Jack says, 'It was all set up by the drive.' One hole and he was already taking his shots.

I just don't think it's fair. Why do I have to hit into whatever that little fairway is, and then, a third of the field can just hit it as hard as they want to? What if you're trying to win the tournament against one of those guys? I think it's a bad setup the way they have it. To me, it's either go back even farther (with the tee) so maybe just one or two people can do it. Or move it up so that we all have same shot.

I putted well. I capitalized on every time I hit a good shot, just about.

I played as well as I've ever played, won as early as I've ever won and felt really good about it.

Campaigns have been very good at getting information from the elections offices on which voters are getting absentee ballots. They're keeping track of who's voting by mail. So I'm sure they're adjusting their strategies for that.

He's one of those special guys who doesn't come along very often. He's more driven and more focused than any person I've ever been around in professional golf.

He's one of those special guys that doesn't come along very often. Watching his game, how he goes about his business, it's still very impressive. You can tell he's been able to do what he's done because he's different. He's more driven and more focused than any person I've ever been around in professional golf.

I don't know if you give the best player in the world any extra incentive to want to beat you.

If I had it in a perfect world, I'd like 12 under par to win the tournament. I've always said if you can do that, you've challenged the players, but they're not playing the U.S. Open, either.

I desperately want to be part of that team. I needed to get off to a good start so I didn't have all that pressure on me toward the summer. This helps a lot. There was a sense urgency.

I appreciate all the people that helped me today, as well as the concern shown by everyone associated with the tournament.

I feel a lot better about it than not being able to play on the weekend that's for sure. I've come back with a couple of solid rounds, so I feel pretty good. I'm just trying to hit good shots, work on my game a little bit so that I feel good about every part of it.

The guys who hit it high and long will have an advantage, for sure.

You've got to be ready for everything. I know I've played well here, and I know all you have to do is outplay the other guy.

The course is playing a lot shorter than the last time we were here,

The first thing we did was take care of the families that were getting kicked out of a hotel. They were going to have to go to a shelter.