Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

John Cena

I'm a huge car guy, I cannot wait to see it [Ferrari World]. I hear there is also unbelievable golf which I'd like to sample and I'm looking forward to seeing what the gym facilities are like

Steve Spurrier

You can only play so much golf and lay around the beach,

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.

Randy Owen

The golf team is off to a strong start.

John F. Kennedy

Show me a man with a great golf game, and I’ll show you a man who has been neglecting something.

Jon Stewart

The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart between shots at PGA Tour events. Man, the next thing you know, they're going to have some guy carry his clubs around for him.

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.

Retief Goosen

There are a number of golfers who are playing great golf in their 40s.

Retief Goosen

Golf is growing, and there are more good young players, but you don't see them going abroad. It's so expensive to travel.

Retief Goosen

Golf is flexibility, and I notice more guys injured. You can overdo this conditioning.

Roger Kahn

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

Patty Berg

There is nothing in this game of golf that can't be improved upon if you practice.

Patty Berg

The more you play it the less you know about it.

Pete Dye

Every time you build a golf course, it’s not a golf course when you get there. You have to improvise.

Pete Dye

Golf is not a fair game, so why build a course fair?

Phil Mickelson

The winner of this tournament doesn't just win a major. He become a part of the history of the game.

Phil Mickelson

It should almost be a prerequisite to play Castle Stuart before you're allowed to design golf courses nowadays.

Phil Mickelson

I think it's more than whether or not you win or lose. It's having that opportunity on that final round, final nine, to come down the stretch with a chance to win.

Phil Mickelson

My style of play won't ever change, because I enjoy that aggressive style of golf. It allows me to play my best. When I attack pins, I stay more focused. I get more into the shot and, consequently, I get more out of the shot and out of my game by playing aggressive.

Phil Mickelson

The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win.

Mike Greenberg

My wife is my favorite person I've ever met in my 40 years on the planet, and I'm sure she would agree that patience is not her strongest characteristic. I don't know that golf would be the game for her.

Mike Greenberg

Golf is a game of endless failure and frustration.

Rita Mae Brown

Golf is an expensive way to make yourself miserable.

Rita Mae Brown

Anyone of my generation who trusts government probably has an I.Q. that would make a good golf score.

Robert Harris

If long hitting is the thing that causes the spectators to whistle through their teeth in wonderment, why not play tournaments up and down an expansive stadium?