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Greg Norman Biography

Gregory John Norman AO (born 10 February 1955) is an Australian professional golfer and entrepreneur who spent 331 weeks as the world's Number 1 Official World Golf Rankings ranked golfer in the 1980s and 1990s. He has won 91 international tournaments, including 20 PGA Tour tournaments and two majors: The Open Championships in 1986 and 1993. Norman also earned thirty top-10 finishes and was the runner-up 8 times in majors throughout his career. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2001 with the highest percentage of votes (80%) of any golfer to date. In a reference to his blond hair, size, aggressive golf style and his birthplace's native coastal animal, Norman's nickname is "The Great White Shark" (often shortened to just "The Shark"), which he earned after his play at the 1981 Masters.

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I would say that it's quadruple what I've had when I've won major championships in the past. I've gotten faxes and phone calls from all over the world. It's been overwhelming. It's really changed my opinion of humanity.

Gotten, Humanity, Past, Phone, Phones, Quadruple

I am a winner. I just didn't win today.

Motivation, Softball, Sports, Today, Win, Winner

We've got to abide by the rules. We have to protect it. The game of golf at a professional level is so clean. We are our own judge, jury and executioner. If we don't do what we think is right, the game might get away from us.

Clean, Games, Golf, Judge, Rules, Thinking

People in this room must have back problems, I'm sure some of us do, and it is really, really one of the worst pains and debilitating parts of your body that you can actually have because you really can't do anything in your life when you have it.

Back, Body, Pain, People

Happiness is a long walk with a putter.

Golf, Happiness, Long, Long Walks, Putter

Putting is a very personal affair.

Affair, Personal, Putting

I can honestly say in my entire career, I've never gone around a golf course and not mis-hit a shot, but today I never missed a shot. I hit every driver perfect, every iron perfect. I'm in awe of myself.

Career, Careers, Golf, Iron, Missed, Today

Every time you lose, you think that life's unfair. You think of the bad breaks. But when you're winning and playing well, you still get those bad breaks, only you overcome them. It just depends on how strong your mind is.

Bad, Breaks, Lose, Strong, Thinking, Winning

You don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, but you want to get rid of the bathwater so the baby can swim the next couple of days and be OK.

Baby, Bathwater, Couple, Swim, Throw

You expect success, you respect failure.

Failure, Motivation, Respect, Softball, Sports, Success

If you're serious about improving your play, be brutally honest with yourself.

Brutally, Honest, Play, Serious

When you're playing poorly, you start thinking too much. That's when you confuse yourself.

Playing, Poorly, Start, Thinking, Thinking Too Much, Too Much

Well, I think any national championship is an extremely important championship to play in.

Championship, Important, National, Play, Thinking

Let's do something to wake these people up.

People, Wake

My doctor asked me how many golf balls I had hit in my career. I'm lying there in bed calculating somewhere between four and five million golf balls I had hit to do that on my body.

Doctor, Doctors, Five, Golf, Lying, Million

There is no room on the golf course for anger or self-pity.

Anger, Course, Golf, Rooms, Self

Sometimes things work out on the golf course and sometimes they don't. Life will go on. You try to understand what happens, but maybe today I don't want to know. I just screwed up so maybe I should just put it behind me.

Golf, Know, Maybe, Mistake, Screwed, Work Out

Aptitude starts with attitude.

Aptitude, Attitude, Starts

So my game is solid. So that obviously makes me feel confident, that like anybody else in this field, you name them, I feel like I've got the ability to win the golf tournament just as much as they have, and that's the way I'm going to take it.

Games, Golf, Obviously, Solid, Take, Winning

I wouldn't call it bitter. I think it's just sweet. I've always believed my life seems like it's gotten better and better as each decade has gone by. So I don't see any I don't see any bitterness about it.

Believed, Call, Gone, Gotten, Sweet, Thinking

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