Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Faldo

You've got a fairly good idea as to what the questions are going to be. But how to record the best answer is another matter.

Nick Faldo

The word is control. That's my ultimate - to have control.

Nick Faldo

Tempo is the glue that sticks all elements of the golf swing together.

Nick Faldo

I never mixed with golfers when I was playing, mainly because I didn't want to talk golf all night.

Nick Faldo

It goes without saying that it is no good having a perfect setup, perfect grip and perfect golf swing if the whole thing is misaligned. It sounds obvious but many players simply do not spend enough time getting themselves on target.

Nick Faldo

Golf is not about the quality of your good shots, it is about the quality of your bad shots.

Nick Faldo

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

When it blows here, even the seagulls walk.

Nora Johnson

I used to think that elder love, if it even existed, was confined to rocking chairs or golf carts, that it had to be a dull business because of the physical limitations of age.

Nikos Kazantzakis

As I watched the seagulls, I thought, That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust.

Johnny Mathis

I love the house that I've been living in for over 40 years. I really am a homebody and I still love to play golf.

John Wooden

I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it.

Will Rogers

The Income Tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.

You've got to hit the fairway, ... but at the same time, you've got to putt well. The guy that putts well is going to win the golf tournament.

Peter Andrews

There is one thing in this world that is dumber than playing golf. That is watching someone else playing golf. What do you actually get to see? Thirty-seven guys in polyester slacks squinting at the sun. Doesn't that set your blood racing?

Peter Alliss

It is not a matter of life and death. It is not that important. But it is a reflection of life, and so the game is an enigma wrapped in a mystery impaled on a conundrum.

Peter Alliss

The game lends itself to fantasies about our abilities.

Peter Alliss

Those trees seem to grow every year...

Peter Alliss

He used to be fairly indecisive, but now he's not so certain.

Mariska Hargitay

Golf made me feel like a loser. So I dismissed it.

Stewart Cink

a person that's out there hitting golf shots.

Real golf isn't what you see on TV. This is golf.

Rory Sabbatini

On this golf course, ... I think that's only one hole.

The most important role is they send golfers out at the right time so there's the appropriate spacing on the golf course.

William Wordsworth

A day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

Geoff Ogilvy

Something was on my side this week, keeping their putts out of the hole and making mine go in the hole. But I guess you could say that about any golf tournament you win.

So this is really where I kind of grew up playing golf.

So the more people use the golf course, the more rewards they earn.

Sometimes, I feel like, 'I'm just happy to be here, life is great, this is so much fun, and no matter what happens, it's a great year,' ... Then a minute later, I'm like, 'C'mon, you've got to focus, you've got to try to win this golf tournament, you're here, you have a chance.'

Thomas Boswell

A Major golf tournament is 40,000 sadists watching 144 masochists.

Always school first, golf second. There was never any question.

Fuzzy Zoeller

They ought to be good. They play more golf than we do.

Jim Thorpe

The weather was perfect. I like this golf course. The greens are loaded. ... We know we can make birdies out there.