Famous Quotes & Sayings

Justin Timberlake

I like to play golf. I like to shoot hoops.

Justin Timberlake

You have a lot of time on these tours. As Alice Cooper said, you can either drink all day or golf.

Justin Timberlake

I get way more nervous playing golf in front of 500 people than being on stage in front of 20,000 people.

Justin Leonard

I have those (goals) written down, but don't want to discuss them. Right now, I just want to keep on improving.

Karrie Webb

It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks

Karrie Webb

I think travel is probably the downside of playing professional golf, but you've got to do it.

Karrie Webb

I've always wanted to be a professional golfer and I'm glad that came true

Karrie Webb

Golf's a funny game. You can be playing poorly and then go and win a tournament.

Julius Boros

The putter looks like a bunch of nuts and bolts welded together, but the ball goes in the hole.

Julius Boros

Retire to what? I already play golf and fish for a living.

Julius Boros

Retire to what? I'm a golfer and a fisherman. I've got no place to retire to.

Julius Boros

Swing easy and hit hard.

Kapil Dev

I have great respect for Jaypee Greens as a company that has produced a truly world class, 24-carat, championship golf course. I am happy to be associated with a company with such outstanding qualities.

John Scott

You look out on the driving range and it looks like snow, but it isn't, it's covered in golf balls.

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.'