20 Quotes by Lydia Ko

It's never easy playing 36 holes when you are concentrating so much for all the shots.

I've got a golf scholarship for school, so they understand if I'm away. A couple of years ago they called to see why I wasn't at school, and now they're like, 'oh, she's at golf.' Sometimes I'm in class and sometimes the teachers don't realize I'm there. She goes, 'oh, Lydia's absent.' And I'm like 'no, actually, I'm here.'

Golf is like 99.9 percent of my life, and then there's school. I don't get much time to go out with my friends.

Two weeks ago at the U.S. Amateur, my mom caddied, and that is kind of a different feeling, because she's your mom and you have to listen to her. It was really comfortable having my mom there, but it's also really relieving and comfortable to have someone that knows the course off their hat, really.

I've got a couple of years until I turn pro so I guess within that period hopefully I'll be able to get a little bit better,

A 3-foot putt can be more nerve-racking than a 9-foot putt because a 3-foot putt you should be getting in. A 9-footer, there's a chance it won't go in.

The best cure for a double-bogey is a toffee, or sugar - any type of sugar; I love my chocolate.

Ever since they announced that golf would be returning to the Olympics, I thought, 'Hey, I wanna get myself on the team.' It has always been my dream.

It's important for me to understand more about my swing and my game, no matter who I end up working with.