Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Beard

Duffers who consistently shank their balls are urged to buy and study Shanks - No Thanks by R.K. Hoffman, or in extreme cases, M.S. Howard's excellent Tennis for Beginners.

Henry Beard

A tap-in is a putt that is short enough to be missed one-handed.

P. J. O'Rourke

The great thing about starting golf in your forties is that you can start golf in your forties. You can start other things in your forties but generally your wife makes you stop them, as Bill Clinton found out.

Paula Creamer

I'm getting more and more comfortable out on the golf course with the changes I've been making. It's really just a confidence thing in that I love being in contention.

Paula Creamer

I have been an avid reader of 'Golf Digest' ever since I started playing this great game.

Paula Creamer

I've always said, the harder the golf course, the better I play.

Paula Creamer

Practice, work out, proper nutrition, lots of work on my short game. In golf, that's really where the strokes come off the scorecard.

Paula Creamer

Every woman should recruit a female friend to take up golf so there will be more women available to play.

Martin Sheen

Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor.

Martin Sheen

Golf is fundamentally about being honest. I see people hit eight shots and tell me they shot five. I never say a word. It is a reminder to me of what is at stake.

Martin Sheen

Anybody who plays golf will tell you that you play against yourself.

Lance Armstrong

I still don't get golf.

John Updike

The other sad truth about golf spectatorship is that for today's pros it all comes down to the putting, and that the difference between a putt that drops and one that rims the cup, though teleologically enormous, is intellectually negligeable.

John Updike

Golf camaraderie, like that of astronauts and Antarctic explorers, is based on a common experience of transcendence; fat or thin, scratch or duffer, we have been somerwhere together where non-golfers never go.

John Updike

Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.

John Updike

...as all souls are equal before their Maker, a two inch putt counts the same as a 250 yard drive. There is a comedy in this and a certain unfairness even, which makes golf an even apter mirror of reality.

John Updike

The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.

John Updike

The muttered hint, "Remember, you have a stroke here," freezes my joints like a blast from Siberia.

John Shelby Spong

I don't think much about my physical body going off into the long, green fairways of heaven to play golf.

James Reston

Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins.

Laura Davies

I guess I'm not a professional's professional. I think I'd rather go to the dentist than play a practice round.

Johnny Miller

Nobody ever heard Jack Nicklaus say "I don't know" about anything.

Johnny Miller

Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.

Johnny Miller

I don't think anywhere is there a symbiotic relationship between caddie and player like there is in golf.

Johnny Miller

For me, 'choking' is just another term in golf.

Johnny Miller

In golf, 'close' is like the north and south rim of the Grand Canyon.

Johnny Miller

There are plenty of guys who played great golf, had great careers and only won a few majors.

Johnny Miller

The dollars aren't so important... once you have them.

Johnny Miller

Golf's Holy Grail - a genius course.

Johnny Miller

Pebble is a piece of sacred ground. They say it's the greatest meeting of land and water in the world. This course was heaven designed - just the way it fits on the land.

Johnny Miller

When Nicklaus plays wells well, he wins. When he plays badly, he finishes second. When he plays terribly, he finishes third.

Nick Faldo

You've got a fairly good idea as to what the questions are going to be. But how to record the best answer is another matter.

Nick Faldo

The word is control. That's my ultimate - to have control.