Attention!! the Secret to You Playing Great Golf Quotes

“Just imagine if your ultimate goal or direction was to become the very best golfer you could possibly be. Would that focus you each day? Would that goal ever run out? Would it give you the freedom to just be and do? My guess is if you spent your life absorbed in becoming the best player you could be and you had a real focus on improvement–but not at the expense of the love of the game–then you would still be able to play golf, as opposed to using golf for what golf might give you.”
― Karl Morris, Attention!! the Secret to You Playing Great Golf

“In other words, lucky people are lucky because they “think” that they are lucky. That leaves them open to and aware of opportunities for luck to come their way.”
― Karl Morris, Attention!! the Secret to You Playing Great Golf

“The obvious point I am making here is that the odds of you hitting the ball exactly as you want to do are minuscule. Golf is a game of missing and failing. Accepting this is the first move to sidestepping inappropriate perfectionism.”
― Karl Morris, Attention!! the Secret to You Playing Great Golf

“To stand on a range blasting 5-irons from a flat lie to an open field, will fuel perfectionism because you get an unrealistic perspective on the game. It is too easy and creates false expectation; you think you are better than you are.”
― Karl Morris, Attention!! the Secret to You Playing Great Golf

“Good golf needs to be allowed out. It cannot be forced. And when you allow yourself to play golf as a game and you see it for what it really is, the golfer who lurks inside of you, and all his true potential, can finally be released.”
― Karl Morris, Attention!! the Secret to You Playing Great Golf

“We don’t have to be fixed by our past conditioning. Personality doesn’t have to be fixed; we can decide to become someone different than the current story we carry around with us. Yes, to change can feel uncomfortable, but if you fight through those feelings, what emerges on the other side is very liberating.”
― Karl Morris, Attention!! the Secret to You Playing Great Golf

“I want you to consider that you could perhaps give yourself new label that could be useful to you in the future–that, in doing so, you could create a new persona for yourself. You decide what kind of person you want to be as opposed to being told by others. The principle of “Act as if” has been around in the world of psychology for a long time. “Fake it until you make it” is a term embedded in popular culture.”
― Karl Morris, Attention!! the Secret to You Playing Great Golf

“The beauty of neutral is it is pragmatically optimistic as opposed to being fantasy-based positive or downbeat negative. The opinion of neutral actually sets you free to just be and then to do. I believe one of the bravest things a golfer can do on the course is to stay open to “possible”. I am absolutely certain if you can train yourself to be in neutral by the use of the word “possible”, then you are well on your way to becoming a very tough opponent to beat.”
― Karl Morris, Attention!! the Secret to You Playing Great Golf

“When I have talked to great putters, they very rarely tell me they try to be positive; but they do tell me their mind is very still and very calm. Positive thinking is, in effect, just more and more thinking when, in fact, we should be thinking less.”
― Karl Morris, Attention!! the Secret to You Playing Great Golf

“The real problem with positive or negative thinking is that the mind gets very busy and agitated over a projected future. In many ways, positive thinking can, of course, be better than negative thinking. But, in all of my time involved in the game, all it does for the vast majority of golfers is create an agitated mind that isn’t really focused on what it needs to be focused on the task at hand, but on what may or may not take place in the future.”
― Karl Morris, Attention!! the Secret to You Playing Great Golf

“The real problem with positive or negative thinking is that the mind gets very busy and agitated over a projected future.”
― Karl Morris, Attention!! the Secret to You Playing Great Golf

“We forget golf is a social game played in a wonderful context, and that these elements are not being looked at when we work at our game on the range.”
― Karl Morris, Attention!! the Secret to You Playing Great Golf