Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lee Westwood

Golf is difficult to get your personality over because you are such a bottle of concentration.

Lee Westwood

I'd been told there are 10 difficult holes and eight impossible ones. I'm still trying to work out which the 10 difficult holes are.

Muhammad Ali

I'm the best. I just haven't played yet.

Mitch Hedberg

I played golf... I did not get a hole in one, but I did hit a guy. That's way more satisfying...

Joey Lauren Adams

If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.

Joey Lauren Adams

Most people play a fair game of golf - if you watch them.

Ken Venturi

After you have the basics down it's all mental.

Ken Buck

In my life, I'd like to play more golf and, and get a decent handicap.

Kinky Friedman

Golf is the only opportunity that middle-aged WASPs have to dress up like a pimp.

Marc Anthony

Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.

Kenny G

I'm just more into playing golf. It's a great thing.

Kenny G

I've never really played golf. With the sax, I learned technique well enough so that it feels like part of my body, and I just express myself. That's where I want to get in golf.

P. J. O'Rourke

Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.

P. J. O'Rourke

You can smoke or drink on a golf course without interrupting the game, and you can take a leak - something you can't do on a squash court and shouldn't do in a swimming pool.

Pablo Picasso

The older you get the stronger the wind gets and it's always in your face.

Paul McGinley

We all knew the exam we were going to sit this week.

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.'

Nick Saban

I asked my priest if it was a sin to play golf on Sunday. And he said, "It's a sin for you to play anytime."

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.