Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Azinger

I don't enjoy playing video golf because there is nothing to throw.

I played really good golf, didn't struggle at all.

In three other occasions when I was younger, I had to take the penalties. I learned from my parents about morals and from junior golf as well.

Ken Green

Golf is tougher than my first wife.

Ken Green

I played a practice round with Hubert [Green] the other day, and when we got to the ninth green, I heard a fan say, "Why does Hubert have two caddies?"

Juli Inkster

No one has ever conquered this game. One week out there and you are God, next time you are the devil. But it does keep you coming back.

Josh Duhamel

My wife and I like to go to church if we're in town. On Sundays, I try to be as chill as I can, whether I'm watching golf or barbecuing.

King Edward VIII

I like going there for golf. America is one vast golf course today.

King Edward VIII

When you are too old to play golf, you had better die.

It's where you want to be. It's only what you make of it, and it's still golf tomorrow. It should be exciting.

I started juggling a long time ago, but long before that, I was a golfer, and that's what I was: a golfer. And as a golfer and as a kid, one of the things that really sort of seeped into my pores, that I sort of lived my whole life, is process. And it's the process of learning things.

Hal Holbrook

I don't play golf. Mark Twain is golf to me.

Hal Linden

I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?

Hal Linden

Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you.

Hal Holbrook

Why do I keep performing at my age? What else am I going to do? Play golf? I tried that years ago and all I did was cuss. I can do that without the walk, cuss at Congress and let [Mark]Twain do it. "Imagine that you were an idiot. And then imagine that you were a member of Congress. Wait - I've repeated myself."

Herb Caen

Baffling late-life discovery: Golfers wear those awful clothes on purpose.

Jessica Ennis

I carry a golf ball to put under my feet when they get tight, and a Thera-Band for general stretching.

Jerry Pate

Dennis Murray is a wonderful Golf Professional who is personable and skillful as an instructor. Dennis helped me work on my golf swing for a full week back in the 80's when I was still playing the PGA Tour. His instruction was great and helped my game very much.

Jim Gaffigan

You didn't question - kind of like, you would go to college. You would wear a tie to work. You would, you know, you would work for 40 years. And then you would play golf for three years, and then you would die. That was how I was raised.

Jim Bishop

A golf ball can stop in the fairway, rough, woods, bunker or lake. With five equally likely options, very few balls choose the fairway.

Jim Bishop

Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.

Jean Chretien

Three months later, on September 5, 2001, at a pro-am event preceding the Canadian Open at the Royal Montreal Golf Club, I was invited to play a round with Tiger Woods. Nothing in the game of politics had ever been as nerve-racking as that game of golf.

Jean Giraudoux

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.

Jackie Gleason

Obviously a deer on the fairway has seen you tee off before and knows that the safest place to be when you play is right down the middle.

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.