Gusta Quotes

A collection of a hundred Great brains makes one big fathead. - Carl Gustav Jung

[Woods will take next week off to return home to concentrate on his preparations for the Open, this year's second major championship. Woods won the Masters in April, his third victory of 2005. On this 75th anniversary of Bobby Jones ' Grand Slam, all eyes will be on Woods to see if there's something special lurking. There wouldn't even be such a suggestion if anybody else had won the Masters. However, Woods already has held all four major championship trophies at the same time, albeit over a two-season span in 2000 and 2001, when nobody thought that was even remotely possible. Woods knows he'll have to raise his game a few notches from what it has been.] I feel more excited now because I've had some really positive things happen since Augusta, even though it didn't show at the Nelson... Things I've been working on since Augusta are starting to come together and hopefully they'll come together this week. - Tiger Woods

[The waiting-list sports have been lobbying for their cause, and rugby appears to have created the strongest buzz, with golf running second.] There's a lot of talk about rugby sevens being the first one in... My issue was with Augusta, not golf. - Jim Easton

[The Official Masters Golf Ball -- fact or fantasy?] There is only one place in the game that could take that position, and that would be Augusta... The only tournament that could get away with saying: 'Hey, do you want to come play in the Masters? Here's the ball, go play with it.' Do I think that's the right way? Probably not. Do I think it's possible? Probably so. - Jack Nicklaus

[Last year, when Phil Mickelson birdied five of the last seven holes to edge Ernie Els, who had two eagles on the back nine, that was about as good as the Masters gets, thought Byron Nelson . Now, the two-time Masters champion -- in 1937 and 1942 -- said he believed this year's tournament could be as good or even better.] The top players, they're all clicking right now, ... I'd pick one of the top five in the rankings to win it. The thing of it is, at that place, somebody always gets hot, but I don't think it'll be an unknown -- if there are really any of those at Augusta -- who will win this time. - Byron Nelson

[Despite an injury to his wrist that forced him to miss the four Tour events preceding the Masters, Duval shot a very fit 71-66-70 and then, playing two groups ahead of Sunday's leaders, unreeled seven birdies in the first 10 holes to grab a share of the lead with Woods. Duval, who was in the hunt on Sunday before losing to Vijay Singh at Augusta last year and to O'Meara three years ago, kept track of Woods as best he could. Roars would rattle through the pines, one neighboring rill to another, and frankly,] It seemed like a lack of them, ... I was thinking, I'm in it. - David Duval

[Chairman Brian Tucker explained the organization was looking for a fun way to share what PEP does for the county.] This is a good way for us to get out in the community, ... We're making an effort to be sure everyone in North Augusta knows we're here. - Brian Tucker

...my evenings are taken up very largely with astrology, I make horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core of psychological truth. - Carl Gustav Jung

. . . human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars. - Gustave Flaubert