Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Hogan

I don't like the glamour. I just like the game.

Ben Hogan

I have always felt and said that a man who can be a champion in one era could be a champion in any other era because he has what it takes to reach the top.

Ben Hogan

The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.

Ben Hogan

If a man can shoot 10 birdies, there's no reason why he can't shoot 18. Why can't you birdie every hole on the course?

Ben Hogan

There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.

Ben Hogan

Hitting a golf ball and putting have nothing in common. They're two different games. You work all your life to perfect a repeating swing that will get you to the greens, and then you have to try to do something that is totally unrelated. There shouldn't be any cups, just flag sticks. And then the man who hit the most fairways and greens and got closest to the pins would be the tournament winner.

Ben Hogan

The most important shot in golf is the next one.

Ben Hogan

All other things being equal, greens break to the west.

Ben Hogan

A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill.

Ben Hogan

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.

Who leaves a lawn mower in the middle of the golf course? I mean, think about it -- what are the chances?

Bill Cosby

Ours is a youth culture, and like a golf tournament, we honor only low scores.

We have more left-handed golfers here than any store I've been in. We can use all the technology, give them the same fittings.

When I think of golf in Southeast Missouri, I think of Jack Connell.

Annika Sorenstam

Well, it has been a long day, but I'm happy with my score. I thought I played some good golf today. And it seemed once I made a birdie, I kept going with it.

Bert Blyleven

I'm from Southern California, so I feel much more comfortable with a golf club in my hand than I do a weapon.

Cathy Rigby

Actually, performing is a lot like golf. You are alone, so vulnerable.

Bill Bryson

After years of patient study (and with cricket there can be no other kind), I have decided that there is nothing wrong with the game that the introduction of golf carts wouldn't fix in a hurry.

Bill Burr

It was right after 9/11 and I decided to walk around the grounds of the Pentagon, because I had never been there. Out of nowhere comes this speeding camouflaged golf cart and this guy starts yelling at me, 'What do you think you're doing!' The guy wrote my name down and began to follow me before I got really scared and took off as fast as I could.

That was the worst day in my golfing life. I tried to keep it together but it just didn't work out.

That's something to be thought about. I don't know. If we play the other golf course, I'd play.

Tom Watson

That's terrific. The golf is long for us old folks, and that's a heck of a score.

Inbee Park

I experienced American golf courses when I was younger and played a lot of USGA and AJGA tournaments.

Inbee Park

This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, thats something a professional golfer has to handle.

Back when we went to the four-man rotation (in 2004), I said the more you do something, the better you get at it, whether you're pitching, swinging a golf club, whatever. Maybe we can get stronger and get off to a better start.

In Brunswick County, the two big things going in the world of tourism would be golf and king mackerel fishing.

I knew it was going well. I was just playing golf.

Ben Curtis

I like it. It's an old-style golf course.

David Toms

I'm just trying to get it to where I can hit good golf shots.

Jimmy Walker

I'm happy where I'm at. I was really good today at working my way around the golf course.

Jimmy Dean

I know it's only February, and golf is not on people's minds, but last year we turned down 30 golfers.

Hale Irwin

I hit a lot of very good golf shots this week,

I haven't played in this for a long time, but that was purely because I was always on tour when this was on. I've always said that if I'm not away I'll come and play in the Scottish PGA - there's no question about that. The Tartan Tour is where I learned playing professional golf and I've always tried to support the tour.