Famous Quotes & Sayings

Seve Ballesteros

I always putted without a glove but I have no idea why - I saw others doing it and copied them.

Seve Ballesteros

Everything was fine until I walked on to the first tee!

Seve Ballesteros

They say I get into too many bunkers. But is no problem. I am the best bunker player.

Seve Ballesteros

I'd like to see the fairways more narrow. Then everybody would have to play from the rough, not just me.

Seve Ballesteros

I miss. I miss. I miss. I make.

Len Goodman

I've got a great life. It's a shame the work gets in the way of the golf, really.

Larry David

Golf and dating don't mix.

Larry David

I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.

Neil Peart

I'm still no good at ball-and-stick games. If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke.

Marcus Aurelius

Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.

Samuel Johnson

Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.

Ronald Reagan

My golf-loving friend Bob Hope asked me what my handicap was, so I told him - the Congress.

Robert Hunter

The best architects feel it to be their duty to make the path to the hole as free as possible from annoying difficulties for the less skillful golfers, while at the same time presenting to the scratch players a route calling for the best shots at their command.

Robert Stack

I play bad golf for good charities like the LA Police.

S. I. Hayakawa

We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress, in scholastic grades or golf scores. One is often tempted to say that conflict, rather than cooperation, is the great governing principle of human life.

Rory McIlroy

Of course, money matters to everyone even if some don't want to admit it. If I won the Race to Dubai, I look at that prize money and think it could pay off my new house or the range I'm building. I am privileged to play golf for a living - look around St Andrews, that's my office.

Rory McIlroy

I feel like I came through this year stronger and wiser, and I can go into 2015 in a much better place.

Rory McIlroy

The Open is the one that we all want and strive for and to be able to hold this Claret Jug is an incredible feeling. To be three legs towards the career grand slam at the age of 25 is a pretty good achievement. It's not going to sink in for a while.

Rory McIlroy

I am a proud product of Irish golf and the Golfing Union of Ireland and am hugely honoured to have come from very rich Irish sporting roots I am also a proud Ulsterman who grew up in Northern Ireland. That is my background and always will be.

Rory McIlroy

I've always said the players don't build up rivalries themselves, people from the outside build up the rivalries. I just want to play good golf. I want to try and keep winning golf tournaments.

Rory McIlroy

I'm afraid there are no replays or second chances in amateur or professional golf, and that's the way it should be.

Rory McIlroy

I'm happy with the success I've had, and I feel like there's been a lot that I've learned this year, and that's a great thing going into the future.

Rory McIlroy

It's been 18 months since I won on The European Tour and to win the flagship event, I could not have asked for any more.

Rory McIlroy

As long as I keep enjoying my golf, then hopefully I'll be able to play well.

Rory McIlroy

It is never easy to win but it is a lot easier to win when you play well. The key is winning golf tournaments when you are not playing so well. Managing your game is something that I feel that I am still learning to do.

Rory McIlroy

The next time I cry about golf it will only be with joy. It's not worth crying over golf for any other reason. After all, it's only a game.

Rory McIlroy

You know I need that cockiness, the self-belief, arrogance, swagger, whatever you want to call it, I need that on the golf course to bring the best out of myself. So you know once I leave the golf course, you know that all gets left there.

Shia LaBeouf

I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made - my swing is pretty hot.

Natalie Portman

I'm really good at mini-golf. You know, maybe not big person golf, but little person golf.

Tony Jacklin

When I'm in this state, everything is pure, vividly clear. I'm in a cocoon of concentration.

Tony Lema

After a golfer has been out on the circuit for a while he learns how to handle his dating so that it doesn't interfere with his golf. The first rule usually is no woman-chasing after Wednesday.

Tony Lema

Golf is like solitaire. When you cheat, you cheat only yourself.

Tony Lema

The less said about the putter the better. Here is an instrument of torture, designed by Tantalus and forged in the devil's own smithy.