Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry Vardon

Do not be tempted to invest in a sample of each golfing invention as soon as it makes its appearance. If you do, you will only complicate and spoil your game - and encumber your locker with useless rubbish.

Tell you the truth, I don't remember. Maybe two years ago, maybe half a day. Soak 'em up and send the golfers back out.

Sometimes people think of golf as a recreation - but it is a legitimate NCAA sport, it is a team sport.

Paul Harvey

All my life I wanted to play golf like Jack Nicklaus, and now I do.

Patty Sheehan

I like the thought of playing for money instead of silverware. I never did like to polish.

Patty Sheehan

The worst advice in golf is, 'Keep your head down.'

Paul Azinger

Staying in the present is the key to any golfer's game: once you start thinking about a shot you just messed up or what you have to do on the next nine to catch somebody, you're lost.

Paul Azinger

Great champions learn from past experiences, whether those be good or bad. A lot of times a guy needs to be knocked down before he gets up and fights.

Paul Azinger

I don't enjoy playing video golf because there is nothing to throw.

Paul Gallico

If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.

Padraig Harrington

I don't support the belly putter. I think it's bad for the game of golf.

Lee Westwood

You're the only one in control over your golf ball. It's not like tennis: you're hitting a shot and somebody's hitting it back at you.

Lee Westwood

A fantastic golf course and venue. It's one of those places that you always look forward to going back to...no matter how many times you have been there before.

Lee Westwood

Golf is played between the ears and if you are not 100 percent focused on what you are trying to do, then people will go past you no matter who you are.

Lee Westwood

In my case what happened next in 1999 was that I fell apart over that back nine. When I saw I was in genuine contention that year I felt like throwing up. That remains probably the most nervous I've ever been on a golf course.

Lee Westwood

Golf is difficult to get your personality over because you are such a bottle of concentration.

Lee Westwood

I'd been told there are 10 difficult holes and eight impossible ones. I'm still trying to work out which the 10 difficult holes are.

Muhammad Ali

I'm the best. I just haven't played yet.

Mitch Hedberg

I played golf... I did not get a hole in one, but I did hit a guy. That's way more satisfying...

Joey Lauren Adams

If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.

Joey Lauren Adams

Most people play a fair game of golf - if you watch them.

Ken Venturi

After you have the basics down it's all mental.

Ken Buck

In my life, I'd like to play more golf and, and get a decent handicap.

Kinky Friedman

Golf is the only opportunity that middle-aged WASPs have to dress up like a pimp.

Marc Anthony

Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.

Kenny G

I'm just more into playing golf. It's a great thing.

Kenny G

I've never really played golf. With the sax, I learned technique well enough so that it feels like part of my body, and I just express myself. That's where I want to get in golf.

P. J. O'Rourke

Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.

P. J. O'Rourke

You can smoke or drink on a golf course without interrupting the game, and you can take a leak - something you can't do on a squash court and shouldn't do in a swimming pool.

Pablo Picasso

The older you get the stronger the wind gets and it's always in your face.

Paul McGinley

We all knew the exam we were going to sit this week.

Paul McGinley

The TV and the public pay our wages and they like to see professional golfers mess it up. Missing a green with a chip shot - when do you see that? It's great to see exciting golf like we had last week.

Lydia Ko

Before, I was like 'Oh my God, I have to do this media, this media and this media,' but now I've learned these are stages you need to go through. If you play really good golf, you're going to get more media attention and more interest in you, and you'll get more confident handling it.