Hal Sutton Quotations

We are reminded how short life really is, and how we are just passing through. So, all the people you haven't told you love lately, tell them, and live your days like you mean it.

I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.

I don't feel badly about that. There's a lot of energy on the golf course. The guys are playing great. I like the pairings in the afternoon. I'm going to take what we've got.

Jim played - he had a great stretch in the middle of the round there, and Chad made that long putt on 16. Almost got that match. We ended up losing, but we almost won it, too.

Put Mickelson and Toms out there. You know, they had the morning off. They rested. Knowing them and the competitors that they are, they are probably a little angry that they weren't out there in the morning.

I feel good. I think everything went good.

I am excited about this. We've got half of our goal. I'd love to see us get a little bit more than half our goal and not be so deeply into this thing going into Sunday, but I feel good about everything.

I hope we've got a lot of fairways and greens. We'll go from there.

Chad was in the right spot. He got a little aggressive with the third shot there. He probably didn't want that putt he had there for the par. And you don't want to put it back there where Casey and Sergio did because you have 20 feet of break there.

I had a really good feeling about that match. You know, they are good friends, and Chris had to feel really relaxed because of being out there with Tiger.

We've got great players in America but we just got beat up this week.

Oh, yeah, the guys played great today. I felt their energy. And when I made the telephone call and I didn't get the answering machine; I got them.

I don't have any regrets. I hate we got beat and I hate we got beat as badly as we got beat. My dad called me after it was over and said there weren't any four, five decisions I could have made that would have changed the outcome.

I felt like history needed it. I felt like the fans needed it. And most of all, I felt like Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods needed it.

God shined on us today with this good weather. He knows this is a good cause.

He's kind of like the Rock of Gibraltar. We depend on his consistency,

Jim said this was a very Southern remark, but I made the statement, 'We're going to start the fire, and everybody else is going to throw some gasoline on it as they come by.'

I would love to see him return and get back on form. If he can't come back, we'll have some decision-making to do.

We knew it was a gamble. The world had to see (the pairing) sooner or later.

Being an underdog offers you an opportunity to have the attitude that, 'If I fail, everybody thought I was going to fail,' ... That's a position you find solace in. If you're the favorite and you figure out a way to corral the talent and put it in the right motion, that's a better position to be in.

They have an opportunity to make a difference and I want the wives to not be afraid to make a difference

A caddie might say one thing that helps take a half-point that wins the Ryder Cup, The outing people don't belong. They are using the club premises by sufferance of our membership and the membership is annoyed.

That's the $64,000 question. And I would love to tell you there was an answer.

It took seven guys to get it (the opening drive) in the fairway.

They've made enough putts that we could pave the road from Detroit to Chicago. They want to beat us bad and this happens in the Ryder Cup.

At the end of the week, Chris played the best. Nobody ever played up to their level. Maybe Chris. And Jay Haas played well. I didn't see anybody on a mission. I felt like the Europeans were on a mission from the start of the week.

I don't know if there's anything (specific) that disappointed me,

He's knows I'm a gambler. He figured that I would do that.

Let me tell you what's fun in golf - low scores. The manufacturers have tricked people into believing that distance is everything. There is no place on the scorecard that says you need to hit it 350 yards.

That's the $64,000 question. And I would love to tell you there was an answer.

You can place the blame on me there ... I tried to make it as easy (on the players) as I could. I've seen (the captaincy) done 100 different ways. They've always complained that it's too structured. I tried to make it easy and told them to prepare like they would for a major and I'll tell you who you'll play with.