Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lily Tomlin

What goes up must come down. But don't expect it to come down where you can find it.

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.

Sugar Ray Leonard

You don't play boxing. You really don't. You play golf, you play tennis, but you don't play boxing.

Stewart Cink

Golf is so difficult to master. It feels like the better you get, the farther you are away from perfection.

Stewart Cink

I had to figure out myself to figure out my game.

Stewart Cink

I just think the game of golf teaches you so much about yourself like who you really are and what you're made of.

Stewart Cink

You play the golf course just like you played it in your practice rounds and you stick to your game plan and just try to get whatever you can out of it.

Stephen Potter

Make friends with your caddie and the game will make friends with you.

T. S. Eliot

Here were decent godless people; Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.

Sylvia Earle

Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It's agriculture. It's golf courses. It's domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf.

Ray Romano

Whenever I walk off the golf course, I thank God that I'm able to tell a joke. I thank God I'm good at something.

Ray Romano

If golf wasn't enjoyable and there wasn't a lot of humor and enjoyment, even though the game is so frustrating, you would wonder why you put yourself through it.

Ray Floyd

If I owned a Rembrandt and it had some dull colors, I don't think I'd go put reds and yellows in there just to brighten it up. I feel the same way about old golf courses. When you have a masterpiece, I sure wouldn't tinker with it.

Ray Floyd

I was from North Carolina, so as a youngster all of my mind games about golf were always, If I make this I win The Masters, if I hole this par putt I win The Masters. So it was a great thrill to play there.

Ray Floyd

I'm used to the golf course playing soft, so tomorrow I'm going to have to pay attention a little bit more.

Ray Floyd

Golf is a game, and games are meant to be enjoyed.

Ray Floyd

Visualization. It may be the most important part of your mental package.

Raphael Saadiq

I have musician friends who play too much golf, and they're not as good at music anymore.

Robert Hass

Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism.

Tom Robbins

I like travelers, but I don't like tourists. The difference is that travelers don't shop and they don't play golf.

Tom Lehman

I think if you are going to base your whole life on what you do on the golf course, you are up for a lot of ups and downs.

Tom Lehman

Having nerves and feeling the pressure just gets you focused and gets your concentration level where it needs to be. I harness that nervous energy into a positive way.