Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tracy Byrd

We like to hunt and golf and drive around lost, and scratch and spit, and a whole lot of other disgusting stuff.

Vince Vaughn

I'm a horrible golfer.

Samuel Johnson

Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.

Ronald Reagan

My golf-loving friend Bob Hope asked me what my handicap was, so I told him - the Congress.

Robert Hunter

The best architects feel it to be their duty to make the path to the hole as free as possible from annoying difficulties for the less skillful golfers, while at the same time presenting to the scratch players a route calling for the best shots at their command.

Robert Stack

I play bad golf for good charities like the LA Police.

William Howard Taft

Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.

Warren Buffett

If you hit a hole in one every hole, you wouldn’t play golf for very long.

Warren Buffett

People who watch their weight, golf scores, and fuel bills seem to shun quantitative evaluation of their investment management skills although it involves the most important client in the world-themselves.

Webb Simpson

Apart from golf, it was a great week.

Samuel L. Jackson

When I'm not working, I like to play golf.

Wendy Ward

I think golfers get over-concerned about results. Enjoy the process: enjoy the opportunity to play.

Tyler, The Creator

Golf Media is basically my brain in one place. It does just about everything except cure asthma. If you find an app that cures asthma, definitely let me know.

Thomas Friedman

Every golf course should have its carbon rating on the scorecard, alongside its Course Rating, Slope, par and yardage.

Thomas Boswell

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

Thomas Boswell

As every golfer knows, no one ever lost his mind over one shot. It is rather the gradual process of shot after shot watching your score go to tatters - knowing that you have found a different way to bogey each hole.

Thomas Boswell

At its best, the US Open demands straight drives, crisp iron shots, brilliant chipping and putting, and strategic position play. Plus the patience of St. Francis and the will of Patton. At its worst, the Open eradicates the difference in ability between a Tom Purtzer and a Tom Watson and throws both in the same jail of high rough and high risk shots. This is the disturbing tendency in the Opens of the seventies and eighties, one which worries everyone in golf.

Thomas Boswell

I may be the only golfer never to have broken a single putter, if you don't count the one I twisted into a loop and threw into a bush.

Vijay Singh

The more they made noise, the more calm I became.

Vijay Singh

If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.

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.

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.

Fuzzy Zoeller

When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game.