Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nancy Lopez

Golf is a difficult game, but it's a little easier if you trust your instincts. It's too hard a game to try to play like someone else.

Nancy Lopez

The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.

Nancy Lopez

The simpler I keep things, the better I play.

Kathy Whitworth

Golf, more than most games, has a number of clichés, often successfully disguised as 'tips'. Watch out!

Kathy Whitworth

There's an old saying,'It's a poor craftsman who blames his tools.' It's usually the player who misses those three-footers, not the putter.

Kathy Whitworth

Golf is a game of misses, and the winners are those who have the best misses

Kathy Whitworth

There are no absolutes in golf. Golf is such an individual game, and no two people swing alike.

Ken Venturi

The only times you touch the ball with your hand are when you tee it up and when you pick it out of the cup. The hell with television towers and cables and burrowing animals and the thousand and one things that are referred to as 'not part of the golf course'. If you hit the ball off the fairway, you play it from there.

Ken Venturi

The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn't wired that way. You're accustomed to trying to make putts, and when you change that mind-set, your brain short-circuits, especially under pressure.

Ken Venturi

All of us have an 'inner clock,' a certain pace at which we function most comfortably and effectively.

Ken Venturi

You can't make good scores happen. You've got to let it happen.

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.

Michael Bamberger

Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything.

Rafael Nadal

I am decidedly unfriendly during a golf game, from the first hole to the last.

Sean Connery

The great Jack Nicklaus summed things up neatly during a charity match on the Old Course at St. Andrews where he and I were playing against Ben Crenshaw and Glen Campbell. I asked him what he considered to be the most important factor to overcome in the game of golf. His reply, "It's an unfair game."

Sean Connery

The terrible beauty is that in the brotherhood of golf we are all the same - certifiable.

Sean Connery

I'm swimming every day and I'm even trying to get the golf swing working again - but that might take a little bit longer.

Sean Connery

I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations - that's why we got married really quickly.

Sean Connery

You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say that I'd rather have won the U.S. Open Golf Tournament.

Michael Phelps

So, you know, if, if I wanted to get up and just play golf one day, I would just get up and play golf. If I wanted to go to Vegas, I would just get up and go to Vegas.

Tobias Smollett

Of this diversion the Scots are so fond, that, when the weather will permit, you may see a multitude of all ranks, from the senator of justice to the lowest tradesman, mingled together, in their shirts, and following the balls with utmost eagerness.

Michelle Wie

If I ever get bored with golf, I'm going to start over and play lefthanded.

Michelle Wie

The best part about golf is when you hit the ball long. It feels really good.

Nolan Bushnell

I'm a big believer in the Wii. I love the physicality of the Wii controller, and how you can get the feeling of throwing a bowling ball or swinging a golf club. Those are the kinds of games I really like.

Mike Weir

The Masters is one of golf's greatest traditions and Augusta is one of the best courses in the world. They are synonymous. It's an event that every golfer, and golf fan, looks forward to.

Mike Weir

Out here, it's just you and the ball.

Neil Gaiman

The end of the story of Batman is he's dead. Because, in the end, the Batman dies. What else am I going to do? Retire and play golf? It doesn't work that way. It can't. I fight until I drop. And one day, I will drop.

John Terry

I like to play snooker, golf as well.

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.

Nick Faldo

Tempo is the glue that sticks all elements of the golf swing together.

Nick Faldo

I never mixed with golfers when I was playing, mainly because I didn't want to talk golf all night.