Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Hansen

I always wanted to be a golfer, only I realised that if I'd played golf I would have been skint.

David Leadbetter

Is there such a thing as a technically perfect swing? If there is, I have yet to see it.

David Leadbetter

Your final goal is to convert your athletic swing to pure instinct rather than conscious thought.

Dave Barry

I like golf because you can be really terrible at it, and still not look much dorkier than anybody else.

Dave Barry

You can, legally, possibly hit and kill a fellow golfer with a ball, and there will not be a lot of trouble because the other golfers will refuse to stop and be witnesses because they will want to keep playing.

Dave Barry

If you explain so clearly that nobody can misunderstand, somebody will. If you're right 90% of the time, why quibble about the remaining 3%? In Africa some of the native tribes have a custom of beating the ground with clubs and uttering spine chilling cries. Anthropologists call this a form of primitive self-expression. In America we call it golf.

Dave Barry

For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.

Dave Barry

Talking about golf is always boring. Playing golf can be interesting, but not the part where you try to hit the little ball; only the part where you drive the cart.

Buddy Hackett

Once when I was golfing in Georgia, I hooked the ball into the swamp. I went in after it and found an alligator wearing a shirt with a picture of a little golfer on it.

Alan Perlis

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

Bernie Ecclestone

Anyone who doesn't speak English isn't worth speaking to

Avril Lavigne

People like Shakira shouldnt have record contracts. She cant even speak English.

Aravind Adiga

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

Azita Ghanizada

I learned how to speak English watching television.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.

Dan Castellaneta

If something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can't speak English.

Christopher Walken

I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.

Christopher Walken

Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.

Cory Monteith

I'm Canadian, but no, I don't speak French.

Juliette Binoche

Some words, you know, it's amazing but some words would come only in French, and when I speak French, it would only come in English. And so the adjustment is very difficult sometimes.

Mark Haddon

Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.

Mark Twain

I can speak French but I cannot understand it.

Sean Connery

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

Hector Elizondo

I love Russian, because it's delicious to speak like that. If you have to speak French, you can also do that, because it's not difficult. Accents are a cool thing to do. And I love doing them.

Sonia Rykiel

Even if I'm in Japan and I don't speak Japanese and the woman facing me doesn't speak French but she's dressed in Rykiel, and she recognizes me, then we have a common language right away.

W. Somerset Maugham

It is good to be on your guard against an Englishman who speaks French perfectly; he is very likely to be a card-sharper or an attache in the diplomatic service.