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.

Catherine Hardwicke

People are more likely to help other people who look exactly like them. They will hang out at the bar and on the golf course with them.

Bryan Clay

I like golf, hiking, camping, boating and fishing.

Charley Pride

Not only are three-putt greens probable, at times they are an achievment.

Bob Monkhouse

You can always spot the employee playing golf with his boss. He's the fellow who makes a hole in one and says, "oops!"

Billy Joel

A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.

Bernhard Langer

Wherever we play golf, people come out here to get autographs. They obviously come out to watch us play and see us in action, but they also want to interact with us.

Bernhard Langer

I'm certainly not a saint out there on the golf course. In fact, far from it. Like when you make a three-putt and become upset. I take one step back and remember there are more important things going on in the world than golf.

Bernhard Langer

We all know, the ones who play golf, know what a wonderful game it is and what a great past-time it is.

Bernhard Langer

It’s up to the captain. I certainly feel my golf is worthy of playing in the Ryder Cup. But I’m not sure I’m on the radar screen of Paul McGinley.

Bernhard Langer

You know why the game of golf is popular? Very easy, it's a great game.

Bernhard Langer

Be decisive. A wrong decision is generally less disastrous than indecision.

Ed Begley, Jr.

I bought my first electric car in 1970. Its top speed was 15 mph and it had just a 15 mile range - it was essentially a golf cart with a windshield wiper and a horn.

Daymond John

I'm not a golf player. I think golf and fishing are the same, but at the end of the day, you can't fry up and golf ball and dip it in tartar sauce. So I'm a fisherman.

David Duval

I know the other side. I know what awful golf is.

David Duval

It's easy at times to win golf tournaments and shoot 59, and sometimes it's hard to post an 85.

David Duval

When I'm swinging well, nobody hits the golf ball any better than I do.

David Duval

You do what you need to if you're serious about playing great golf.

David Duval

I've seen the bottom and I know the difference between good golf and bad golf.

David Brenner

I don't like to watch golf on television because I can't stand people who whisper.

Arnold Palmer

I love America. I wanted to play golf.

Arnold Palmer

All the things that I have derived either directly or indirectly through the game of golf are things I owe a great deal to the game and to the people who support the game.

Arnold Palmer

I've noticed the sound of the golf ball being hit by the golf club is different, and much more realistic, with the hearing aids. The sound with the hearing aids makes sense, and better represents what I know is happening to the golf ball. So you could say that the hearing aids help give me confidence regarding my golf game.

Arnold Palmer

I never rooted against an opponent, but I never rooted for him either.

Arnold Palmer

Your worst putt will usually be as good as your best chip.