I always look at the worst situations and try and figure out how I can make them better. Let today's garbage be better than yesterday's, is my motto.
Bryson DeChambeau
Look, my body fat percentage has maybe gone up a percent or two, but it's not gone up that much at all. I would say a lot of it has been attributed to muscle. It's a lot of muscle.
I'm not really smart, but I'm dedicated. I can be good at anything if I love it and dedicate myself. And I love history. I love science. I love music. I love golf. I love learning. I love life.
Most people are afraid of failure. I love failure because it tells me where to go next.
The only reason why I don't win is because of a bad decision, misjudged the wind, misjudged the read on the greens and wet conditions. Those are the three or four things that will cause me not to win. That's it.
If you had a robot out here calculating all the variables, I think you could potentially get really close to perfection, but from a human perspective, there's no way to understand all the wind. The wind is the biggest variable, and the grass length is the second biggest variable that we just don't have control over and never will.
I think it's unfortunate because people don't see what I do day-in and day-out, high-fiving the kids, saying thank you to the fans and volunteers out there, and they just look at all the negative stuff.
I've had some struggles, some times with difficulty and people saying this, people saying that. I've done some things I shouldn't have, but it's about growing up and learning how to be a true professional.
That's what I've always been about is trying to shine a light on the game of golf and not push people away, with developing the one-length irons, having a new way of swinging the golf club and doing all these different things that look weird, but have been a massive benefit to the game, that's what I'm about.
I have to chase down the most scientifically efficient way to get the golf ball in the hole.
I don't play golf for money. I play golf to execute that shot, the beautiful shot that everybody adores. That's why I think we all play golf.
What's funny about me is that when I try and relax, and my body is in a fatigued or - you know, my muscles aren't feeling that great, I feel I only get worse. But when I go work out and do the things that are productive to helping off-set the weak muscles or hurt muscles, I feel like I can become a lot better after that.
If I wanted to learn Arabic or Russian, I could. Or tie my shoes in a new way, I could. Why? Dedication.
Every tournament that I go to, I'll prepare my absolute best to play my best golf. And if my best golf is a Top-10, then so be it.
It's literally I'll be injured or hurt in some facet and I'll go work out to heal it, to make it get better so I can hold that tolerance level.
Obviously, I'm trying to control the intake of sugars, but carbs are fine because I'm obviously sweating like crazy out here.
In the mornings, I usually have four eggs, five pieces of bacon, some toast, and two protein shakes.
You got to have a lot of mass to be able to produce a lot of ground reaction force, to function off of the ground, to press off of the ground.
I use TaylorMade. I've tested every golf ball. TaylorMades are great.
I'm trying to provide entertainment, and I hope that people can realize that it takes more than just me playing a shot in 30 seconds or 40 seconds for us to call it slow play.
People would say you need to do stretches and all of that. I would be very careful with doing that. I, if anything, go on a rotary weight machine and try and go as far as you can both ways, rotate as far as you can both ways so that you can create strength through motion.
It's funny, I hear people say I'm faking all this science stuff. That's the furthest thing from the truth. It's literally what I have to do to play and perform at this level.
I feel like I've been able to bring an idea to the world stage and shine a light on a different way to play, an easier way. I want to change the game.
I'm not worried about the Masters. I never worry about this tournament or that tournament.
People don't realize all the stuff I gave up growing up. I could have gone to parties and had fun at adventure parks with friends on weekends and things like that. But I went out and worked my butt off for eight hours playing golf.
I use a system called Vector Green Reading, which applies science to the green reads.
I want to gain as much weight as possible, and I want to see what I can do with that weight once I'm all done.
Breathing in the proper state gets you into a state where you digest food better and calms your brainwaves down.
There's a bunch of different ways to play the game of golf. You don't need to play it one way. It doesn't need to be one swing that's perfect out there.
I had debilitating back pain. Three years later, I'm 40 pounds heavier and generating 20 or 25 miles an hour more ball speed.
I've tried the keto diet and all these things, but what I've found is that as long as I'm keeping a 2:1 ratio of carbs to protein, that works for me.
That's my whole goal for the game of golf - it's not only to make myself a better player, but to have people have a more enjoyable experience when I'm around.
I just kept going to the gym, and luckily I have a gym at home, so I just go in there probably for 30 minutes and then I go back out and then I go back in for another 30 minutes and accumulated like about three-and-a-half hours of working out a day. It was a lot. It was ridiculous. But I said I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it right.
If I could be like Happy Gilmore or Kyle Berkshire, hitting over 400 yards and hitting it straight? That is a massive, massive advantage. So I set out to do that, and I've been healthier and stronger ever since.
Most people think that I'm so technical that I don't have a feel aspect or a rhythm aspect of it, but that's just the opposite. I need to get into my momentum and my rhythm in regards to being technical and analytical, and also being that artist.
As a kid, I liked building a lot of Legos and built houses and did some fun stuff with that.
I feel like when you're videoing someone and you catch Tiger at a bad time, you show him accidentally doing something, or someone else, they're just frustrated because they really care about the game. It could really hurt them if they catch you at a potentially vulnerable time.
Throughout the course of the day, I'll have a GoMacro bar here and there, I'll have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, I'll have another protein drink, I'll have at least two protein drinks on the golf course, at every six holes, and then after the round I'll have one.
I'd definitely use a 48-inch driver if I could control it.
The time to hurry is in between shots. It's not over the shot. It's timing how people walk. You have to add that to the equation. If you've got somebody walking slow and they get up to the shot and take their 20 seconds, what's the aggregate time for them to hit that shot in between shots? That's what really matters. It's not the shot at hand.
I go to the gym with a mindset to fix myself, never to break myself down.
Crazy is a relative term, you know. Everybody is unique in their own way and some people work harder for longer hours than others.
I was always a guy that would study for three hours and barely get an A on the test and you would have another guy next to me who would study for maybe 30 minutes and ace it.
When people start talking to me about slow play and how I'm killing the game, I'm doing this and that to the game, that is complete and utter you-know-what.
Look, I am not really that sensitive of a guy. I don't get hurt by a lot of things.
If it's not an easy shot, I'm going to take a little bit longer because that's my job.
I'm a total nonconformist; for me, it's about going down rabbit holes.
I'm going to become like a gymnast. I watch online, on Instagram, these gymnast influencers, and that's where I want to get.
When you start personally attacking people on Twitter, it's like, come on, dude.
I try and set goals and stick to them.
