The Fray Quotes
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I like to play what I call a-motional golf. Emotion doesn't grab me that much.
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I'm a Christian guy, and when it comes to my priorities, it's the utmost. For me, just to calm myself down, to keep my perspective when I'm playing, to not make too big a deal of it... that's where I go to. The peace that comes with that allows me to play free golf.
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I play golf for a living. I'm grateful for that. It's a beautiful game, provides a great opportunity.
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Early in the winter of 2002, I gave my life to the Lord. Before I was one, I always thought being a Christian would be boring. In reality, it has been the complete opposite.
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To win at Augusta and to win The Open Championship at St. Andrews, it's hard to put it into words as a golfer, as an athlete, as a guy - I'm not rich in history, I can tell you that. I'm not a great historian.
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I like to look good on the golf course.
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I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf.
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Try to devote the percentage of time for each club that you're going to be using on the golf course. I like to have two or three different clubs that I practice with, not four or five.
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I like boring golf. That's kind of what butters my bread.
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Sports formed me. I was always decently skilled but lacked size, so I had to resort to using my skill versus my power. I strategically play golf because that's all I can do. It's the same on the basketball court. I try to get open and shoot it. Or I use the open space on the soccer field.
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Winning the 2007 Master's was a dream fulfilled; culminating on Easter Sunday with my family was very special. You couldn't write it up any better.
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If you put me in the fairway at my average distance into a par 4, 175 to 180 yards, and you put another player in the rough 120 yards from the green, over time, I'm going to wear him out.
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Golf is not my priority. I would hope people see me as a Christian man who loved his family, who loved being in the heat of competition and sometimes succeeded at it; who understood that golf was his job and that he was very lucky to play it for a living.
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We wanted a name that people would remember and get pissed off about. Nothing too deep, believe me.
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Go to a graduation party, put out a fish bowl, and you have a gold record.
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Happened to be the first time we played the song live, but I absolutely for the life of me could not find the key singing and had to stop the band to find it.
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I can't really speak for the guys, but for me, I think I want a build a longer-term career and I feel like we've been really fortunate to have some big success with a few things, but I want smaller success with more things.
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When you first start a band all you think about and spend your time doing is writing songs, play shows, in the simplest way and the simplest formation of the band. It's about the gear, and that guitar that one day you will buy. It's a beautiful time. I'm grateful for having that time. Then life flips upside down, all of a sudden you are strapped to a rocket ship, you get a hit, then it is tough to keep grounded.
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If you're a painter, paint. But you don't have to put Jesus in every picture. Paint well, and if you paint well enough, they might ask you why you do that.
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There is a Beautiful Magic to This Whole Music Business.
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You've got 3 minutes to tell the world something. Are you going to talk to them about being wasted in your front yard because you couldn't park your car, or are you going to talk to someone about something that could actually help them?
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There's no huge message and there doesn't have to be, but we're having as much fun, us and our audience, as any band out there, I think, and we're proud of it.
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Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same.
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I’ve stood at the four corners, I’ve stood at the county line and looked out past DIA, I’ve stood at the base of Devil’s Thumb, I’ve been all over that damn state and I think when I stand on stage, I feel the gravity of that.