Famous Quotes & Sayings

Luke Donald

The qualifying system helps the top guys like Sergio Garcia, who play most of their golf in the U.S. They can rely on the world rankings and just play their four extra events [with the four majors and three World Golf Championship events counting as seven European events]. But for the other guys it's tough, and I don't know if that can be changed. It is a tricky situation.

Lou Holtz

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.

Heikki Kovalainen

In golf, you have to stay patient and calm. On the race track you can let loose, but in golf you can't and you must be calm.

Helen Alfredsson

We were always taught to swing slow with good tempo. But you have to have some acceleration throughout the swing. I think that's where a lot of women go wrong. They should try to whack it a few times and see what happens.

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.

Harlan Coben

I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.

Grantland Rice

There are three types of golf: golf, tournament golf and Major championship golf.

Grantland Rice

Few learn golf in a lifetime.

Grantland Rice

Rhythm is best expressed in any swing directed at a cigar stump or a dandelion head.

Grantland Rice

Because golf exposes the flaws of the human swing - a basically simple maneuver - it causes more self-torture than any game short of Russian roulette.

Grantland Rice

There is no type of miracle that can't happen at least once in golf.

Grantland Rice

This is the substance of our Plot-For those who play the Perfect Shot, There are ten thousand who do not.

Grantland Rice

Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than nineteen years of dealing with him across the desk.

Grantland Rice

Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance.

Joe Torre

Golf is the only game I know where you call a foul on yourself.

Joe Mantegna

You know the way I play golf, it's a good I do these things for charities.

Joanne Carner

Once when I'd been in a lot of bunkers, my caddie told me he was getting blisters from raking so much.

Joanne Carner

I don't know why that putt hung on the edge. I'm a clean liver. It must be my caddie.

Joanne Carner

The trouble with me is I think too much. I always said you have to be dumb to play good golf.

John Daly

He's tough (Tiger Woods). I wish I was that tough when I was his age.

John Daly

Seems I used to do everything like I was on a mission. If it was alcohol, I wanted to drink till I couldn't see straight. If it was golf, I wanted to beat everybody's brains out. If it was driving, I can get there faster'n you can. It's not anybody's fault, I guess. I was stubborn as hell. I had no direction.

John Daly

All four days I didn't think. I just hit. Squeaky (Medlen, his caddy) said 'kill' and I killed it.

John Daly

I've got the drinkers and the smokers and the eaters on my side.

John Daly

I will just put four or five extra packs of cigarettes in my bag and I will be fine.

John Daly

This fitness thing is blown out of proportion. What am I going to do on a treadmill - smoke a cigarette and drink a diet Coke?