Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lee Trevino

Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe.

Lee Trevino

My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch.

Lauren Hutton

The doctors told me I'd be fine if I play only golf and tennis doubles for the rest of my life. But I dive. I dogsled. I trek. I guess I'll have surgery.

Larry Nelson

It's just to let the other one know it can be replaced.

Larry Nelson

There's not much pressure on the golf Tour. Walking to the first tee is in no way comparable to walking through the jungle in combat

Larry Nelson

If I can hit a curveball, why can't I hit a ball that is standing still on a course?

Lewis Black

Self-love is a big part of golf.

Lewis Black

If I get a week off, I'll go to a hotel that has a golf course. I like to come downstairs and go right onto the course. I'll do that five days in a row.

Lewis Black

I think one reason people play golf is it allows them to obsess about something other than the daily crap. It takes your mind off that.

Julius Boros

The putter looks like a bunch of nuts and bolts welded together, but the ball goes in the hole.

Julius Boros

Retire to what? I already play golf and fish for a living.

Julius Boros

Retire to what? I'm a golfer and a fisherman. I've got no place to retire to.

Julius Boros

Swing easy and hit hard.

George Lopez

Life is great and golf has been one of the great parts of it for me.

Emily Post

Golf is a particularly severe strain upon the amiability of the average person's temper, and in no other game, except bridge, is serenity of disposition so essential.

Elizabeth Gilbert

You have the opposite of poker face. You have like.. miniature golf face.

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.

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?

John Daly

My slogan is who needs fitness when you've got great equipment.

John Daly

I learned you can't drink whiskey and play golf.

John Daly

Do I have to know rules and all that crap? Then forget it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I don't have any handicap. I am all handicap.

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.