Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul McGinley

The TV and the public pay our wages and they like to see professional golfers mess it up. Missing a green with a chip shot - when do you see that? It's great to see exciting golf like we had last week.

Lydia Ko

Before, I was like 'Oh my God, I have to do this media, this media and this media,' but now I've learned these are stages you need to go through. If you play really good golf, you're going to get more media attention and more interest in you, and you'll get more confident handling it.

Lydia Ko

Um, yeah 15-year-olds don't lead at an LPGA event all the time. But like I said, I'm very surprised. I've been playing really good golf and I'm confident with my game.

Mia Hamm

Golf is social. It brings a lot of people together. And the great thing about a scramble, there's less pressure because you don't feel like every shot has to be your shot.

Mia Hamm

Golf is social. It brings a lot of people together.

Mia Hamm

People ask me, 'Would you ever want to play professional golf?' And I'm like, 'No. No, no, no, no. Just because I can hit a good shot every now and then doesn't make me a pro.'

Michel de Montaigne

When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.

Mario Balotelli

I don't like golf. It's not for me, it's too quiet.

Merle Haggard

Guitar playing is very important to me. It's like golf to some other people; it's important to me that I play good.

Mark Calcavecchia

If I had hit it like I wanted to I'd have holed it.

Mark Calcavecchia

Hit it hard. It will land somewhere.

Mark Calcavecchia

Golf is just a game - and an idiotic game most of the time.

P. G. Wodehouse

Golf is the Great Mystery.

P. G. Wodehouse

It is the glorious uncertainty of golf that makes it the game it is.

P. G. Wodehouse

What is Love compared with holing out before your opponent?

P. G. Wodehouse

What earthly good is golf? Life is stern and life is earnest. We live in a practical age. All around us we see foreign competition making itself unpleasant. And we spend our time playing golf? What do we get out of it? Is golf any use? That's what I'm asking you. Can you name me a single case where devotion to this pestilential pastime has done a man any practical good?

P. G. Wodehouse

A golfer needs a loving wife to whom he can describe the day's play through the long evening.

P. G. Wodehouse

He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes to its maximum only to the man who has given up golf.

P. G. Wodehouse

I wonder what Tommy Morris would have had to say to all this number 6-iron, number 12-iron, number 28-iron stuff. He probably wouldn't have said anything, just made one of those strange Scottish noises at the back of his throat like someone gargling.

P. G. Wodehouse

There was the man who seemed to be attempting to decieve his ball and lull it into a false sense of security by looking away from it and then making a lightning slash in the apparent hope of catching it off its guard.

P. G. Wodehouse

Golf is the Great Mystery. Like some capricous goddess, it bestows its favours with what would appear an almost fat-headed lack of method and discrimination. On every side we see big two-fisted he-men floundering round in three figures, stopping every few minutes to let through little shrimps with knock-knees and hollow cheeks, who are tearing up snappy seventy-fours.

P. G. Wodehouse

Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with one ounce more brain than a cuckoo clock. I wish to goodness I knew the man who invented this infernal game. I'd strangle him. But I suppose he's been dead for ages. Still, I could go and jump on his grave.

P. G. Wodehouse

Many bad golfers marry, feeling that a wife's loving solicitude may improve their game. But they are rugged, thick-skinned men, not sensitive and introspective. It is one of the chief merits of golf that non-success at the game induces a certain amount of decent humilty, which keeps a man from pluming himself too much on any petty triumphs he may achieve in other walks of life.

P. G. Wodehouse

The test of a great golfer is his ability to recover from a bad start.

P. G. Wodehouse

There are three things in the world that he held in the smallest esteem - slugs, poets and caddies with hiccups.

P. G. Wodehouse

Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious.

Paul Pierce

I worked at a hospital for a week. And at a golf course when I was in college at Kansas for about a week. The tips weren't good so I quit.

Mark Goddard

Let the machine take care of the machines, and I'll go spend more time with my family, or golf.

Paul Harvey

All my life I wanted to play golf like Jack Nicklaus, and now I do.

Patty Sheehan

I like the thought of playing for money instead of silverware. I never did like to polish.

Patty Sheehan

The worst advice in golf is, 'Keep your head down.'

Paul Azinger

Staying in the present is the key to any golfer's game: once you start thinking about a shot you just messed up or what you have to do on the next nine to catch somebody, you're lost.

Paul Azinger

Great champions learn from past experiences, whether those be good or bad. A lot of times a guy needs to be knocked down before he gets up and fights.