Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Faldo

It goes without saying that it is no good having a perfect setup, perfect grip and perfect golf swing if the whole thing is misaligned. It sounds obvious but many players simply do not spend enough time getting themselves on target.

Nick Faldo

Golf is not about the quality of your good shots, it is about the quality of your bad shots.

Nick Faldo

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

When it blows here, even the seagulls walk.

Nora Johnson

I used to think that elder love, if it even existed, was confined to rocking chairs or golf carts, that it had to be a dull business because of the physical limitations of age.

Nikos Kazantzakis

As I watched the seagulls, I thought, That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust.

Johnny Mathis

I love the house that I've been living in for over 40 years. I really am a homebody and I still love to play golf.

John Wooden

I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it.

Matt Kuchar

As far as golf being athletic, I would say, go try it, let's see how well you do. It's a hard game.

Matt Kuchar

Golf has always been a game where you have to control both ends of the club.

Meg Cabot

This was something you had to work through on you own," Jason said. "Besides, I knew you'd do the right thing." "Oh, right," I said. I wanted to throw something at him. I really did. "And if I hadn't?" Now Jason brandished something he'd been holding behind his back. It was a golf club. "I figured Big Bertha here would drive them away," he said.

Max Beerbohm

Golf: The most ... perfect expression of National Stupidity.

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.

Peter Andrews

There is one thing in this world that is dumber than playing golf. That is watching someone else playing golf. What do you actually get to see? Thirty-seven guys in polyester slacks squinting at the sun. Doesn't that set your blood racing?

Peter Alliss

It is not a matter of life and death. It is not that important. But it is a reflection of life, and so the game is an enigma wrapped in a mystery impaled on a conundrum.

Peter Alliss

The game lends itself to fantasies about our abilities.

Peter Alliss

Those trees seem to grow every year...

Peter Alliss

He used to be fairly indecisive, but now he's not so certain.

Mariska Hargitay

Golf made me feel like a loser. So I dismissed it.

Merle Haggard

Guitar playing is very important to me. It's like golf to some other people; it's important to me that I play good.

Mark Calcavecchia

If I had hit it like I wanted to I'd have holed it.

Mark Calcavecchia

Hit it hard. It will land somewhere.

Mark Calcavecchia

Golf is just a game - and an idiotic game most of the time.

Terry O'Quinn

I'll watch golf while I work out. I'm your average golf fan.

Terry O'Quinn

When I find a golf course or a restaurant or a market that I like, that's pretty much exclusively where I go.