PGA Championship 2011 Press Conference: Bubba Watson's Most Intriguing Quotes

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Kathy Bissell

When it comes to quote machines, there is no better person to listen to than Bubba Watson. He could do 24/7 of quotable comments.

Bubba on Twitter:

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“My goal, to show how dumb I really am. I like to have fun. The thing media probably doesn't talk about it that much, but golf is boring, as a whole. All we see is—we see on television, we see the guys focusing. We see the guys bearing down, trying to win golf tournaments, trying to hit good shots. I do it, too. I lose focus really quick. So on the golf course, I have to put my head down and not think about what's going on around me. I just have to putt my head down and go to the next hole. And so for social media, Twitter and all of these things, is to show the fun side, to show that we are fun and we do have fun and we do have a life.”

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Bubba on the most entertaining Twitter personality: “Second best is probably like Rickie, Ian Poulter. First is me for sure. It's always about me, isn't it?”

Bubba on Tiger and dominating players:

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“Tiger dominated for so long, which he can come back—he was injured, so he could easily come back and dominate again. But right now it's just showing you how good golf really is. You had a guy who dominated the sport. The other guys were not bad; he just dominated the sport. Now it's letting the talent come out, and he could come back and dominate again and look like we are not very good between. With him being out, it just showed how good some of those players really are.”

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Bubba on golf:

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"We had the commercial out where ‘these guys are good,’ and the last guy in the field has a chance to win like the first guy in the field, and I think that's the thing that's showing right now. The state of the game is great, it's growing and younger people are playing better, and the old guys have to step their game up. I'm in the middle so I'm. I'm in the middle so I'm not really old or young yet, so that's good.”

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Bubba on winning:  

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“I've learned that it's hard work to win golf tournaments, to focus on the golf course, to do the things I want to do in my career, it's going to take a lot of sweat and tears and a lot of energy, and that's what I'm learning this year, and it was overwhelming at times. It feels like I'm sick. It feels like I don't want to get out of bed, because I've grinded so much. At New Orleans, I hit it in the water on No. 9, but for some reason, I was three-down after that hole, but not one time did I pout, did I think about—I thought about, I'm three back with nine holes to go. If every week I was three back with nine holes to go, that means I was playing pretty good all year. And I somehow forced a playoff and won. So it just showed me how much hard work this is, really, to lift the trophy. It takes a lot out of you, and hopefully working out to get more energy to perform better each week.”

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Bubba on his name:

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“It was in 1978, Bubba Smith was playing football. So when I was born, I was real chubby in the face and my dad wanted a baseball player and I came out chubby in the face and looked like a big football player, and he said I'm a Bubba and not—I'm a football player, not a baseball player. So 10 seconds after I was born, he just called me Bubba, and Bubba Smith was coming through. I know I missed Police Academy, but it's the same Bubba Smith, yeah."

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Bubba on wardrobe:

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“Nothing in store this week. We got a bigger plan next year. We want to wear something pink. My goal is to wear something pink every major next year, and everything we sell is going to go to charity for breast cancer, because my dad had cancer, but breast cancer for my driver shaft and everything, and I'm trying to talk PING into building pink driver heads so we can sell them for charity.”

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Bubba on Rickie Fowler: "He brings the dirt bike to the golf course. He has no fear and he doesn't worry what you say, what the next guy says; he's going to play golf."

Bubba on advice from Rickie Fowler: “He told me to quit being a baby and just play good golf and quit crying all the time and blaming other people, or blaming the wind or blaming that didn't do right, got a bad bounce. So he told me to suck it up and be a man."

Bubba on Atlanta CC par-threes:

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“I haven't seen the course. So I haven't played it. But I know that there's water—I talked to David Toms last week, and he said that he played the golf course, and he said that par 3 was really long—isn't that the one he made the hole-in-one on? He said it was really long and he had to step back. I think he hit 5-wood the first time and he hit 3-wood the week before.  So I think with the water there, it gets silly. If it they make it like a major and make it with firm greens, how are you going to stop a 3-wood on the green, you know? I carry a 3-iron, so I will probably just hit a 3-iron and try and draw it in there because they say that it's open on the left side. I haven't seen it yet, though. It's just they are getting too long…We're the only people changing our fields. The football field is not changing. The basketball court is not changing. Just make tighter fairways and higher rough, you know. That's the way I see it. Make everybody have a chance."

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