Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Player

But golf being an international game and everybody loving the game the way they do, if you want to spread the game of golf, it's good that you have great competition.

Gary Player

I try to work with God as a partner.

Gary Player

Perhaps the most important thing I can tell you about equipment is to experiment and keep an open mind.

Gary Player

I always said that if they have a golf course like this in heaven, I want to be the head pro.

Gary Player

Golf is a puzzle without an answer.

Gary Player

Everyone wants to be known as a great striker of the ball for some reason. Nobody wants to be called a lucky, one-putting s.o.b.

Gary Player

You can always speak with great authority on how well you played today, but never on how you'll play tomorrow.

Gary Player

If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.

Gary Player

I've studied golf for almost 50 years now and know a hell of a lot about nothing.

Gary Player

If you think your hands are more important in your golf swing than your legs, try walking a hole on your hands.

Gary Player

Enjoy the game. Happy golf is good golf.

Gary Player

Golf asks something of a man. It makes one loathe mediocrity. It seems to say, "If you are going to keep company with me, don't embarrass me.

Gary Player

Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.

Gary Player

You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.

Gary Player

It's a marriage. If I had to choose between my wife and my putter, well, I'd miss her.

Chris Tucker

I tell people that stand-up's like golf: you gotta do it every day to get it down - or at least three times a week to get it down.

George W. Bush

The problem with golf is I have to deal with a humiliation factor.

George W. Bush

I call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers. Thank you. Now watch this drive.

George Plimpton

Golf cannot be played in anger, or in any mood of emotiional excess. Half the golf balls struck by amateurs are hit if not in rage surely in bewilderment, or gloom, or in cynicism, or even hysterically - all of those emotional excesses must be contained by the professional. Which is why balance is one of the essential ingredients of golf. Professionals invariably trudge phlegmatically around the course - whatever emotions are seething within - with the grim yet placid and bored look of cowpokes, slack-bodied in their saddles, who have been tending the same herd for two months.

George Carlin

O. J. Simpson has already received the ultimate punishment: For the rest of his life he has to associate with golfers.

George Carlin

So I do have this ambivalence. Obviously I'm against militaries, because of what militaries do. In many ways though, the air force was unmilitary-like. They dropped bombs on people, but...they had a golf course.

Gene Sarazen

My caddie 'Stovepipe' tried to talk me into hitting a 3-wood. But I took out the turf rider (4-wood) instead. The moment I hit it, I felt something in my bones. Walter Hagen was playing with me and Bobby Jones was on the green. 21 people were behind the green. The sun was going down. I wasn't sure it had gone in the hole until I saw all 21 people jumping up and down.

Gene Sarazen

Even when times were good, I realized that my earning power as a golf professional depended on too many ifs and putts.

Gene Sarazen

Scott Medlock's portrait of 'the shot heard around the world' from the 1935 Masters is still being celebrated as a moment in Golf History. Imagine that!

Gene Sarazen

I have been able to hope for the best, expect the worst, and take what comes along. If there has been one fundamental reason for my success, this is it.

Gene Sarazen

Oakmont possesses all the charm of a sock to the head.

Steve Elkington

I've always had a good head for golf,

I've improved my golf over the past year and a half. Every semester it has gotten better. It's a shame I have to leave on May 28.

Mark O'Meara

I've got phenomenal golf memories here. I think a lot of it is from using those past memories.

I've even had people come up to me and say, 'I started playing golf because of you,' ... I'm always like, 'Gosh, I'm sorry.'

I wish to emphasize that there are no secrets to golf.

Fletcher Knebel

Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt.

Henry Louis Gates

I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, 'You can like Mozart and ice hockey...' - and then I used to say 'golf,' but Tiger took over golf! - 'and Picasso and still be as black as the ace of spades.'