Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Paul Azinger

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

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.

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."

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...

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.

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.

Paul Gallico

If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.

Padraig Harrington

I don't support the belly putter. I think it's bad for the game of golf.

Lee Westwood

You're the only one in control over your golf ball. It's not like tennis: you're hitting a shot and somebody's hitting it back at you.

Lee Westwood

A fantastic golf course and venue. It's one of those places that you always look forward to going back to...no matter how many times you have been there before.

Lee Westwood

Golf is played between the ears and if you are not 100 percent focused on what you are trying to do, then people will go past you no matter who you are.

Lee Westwood

In my case what happened next in 1999 was that I fell apart over that back nine. When I saw I was in genuine contention that year I felt like throwing up. That remains probably the most nervous I've ever been on a golf course.

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.

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.

Irvin S. Cobb

Golf - a young man's vice and an old man's penance.

Harry Redknapp

When I heard the draw I was out on the golf course. I had an eight-iron in one hand and my mobile in the other. When we came out with United, my club went further than the ball.