Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Tony Lema

From its earliest beginnings, golf has been a gentleman's game - to be played as much for the sake of the game as for the contest.

Tony Lema

The best advice I can give for playing a ball out of water is - don't.

Tony Lema

It isn't the hours that you put in at practice that count. It's the way you spend those minutes.

Tom Watson

This game is so elusive. You try to maintain the peaks and level up the valleys.

Tom Watson

The person I fear most in the last two rounds is myself.

Tom Watson

Muirfield without a wind is like a lady undressed. No challenge.

Tom Watson

Ballybunion is the course on which many golf architects should live and play on before they build golf courses.

Tom Watson

After playing Ballybunion for the first time, a man would think that the game of golf originated here.

Tom Watson

If you have an ego of any sort, this course [Augusta] will take it and shove it down your throat.

Tom Watson

A lot of guys who have have never choked, have never been in the position to do so.

Tom Watson

My golf swing is a bit like ironing a shirt. You get one side smoothed out, turn it over and there is a big wrinkle on the other side. Then you iron that one out, turn it over and there is yet another wrinkle.

Tom Watson

There is no surer or more painful way to learn a rule than to be penalized once for breaking it.

Sergio Garcia

Be who you really are.

Sergio Garcia

Concentrating for four hours will wear you out mentally.

Sergio Garcia

I am what I am. I love golf, I love my life, I love my family and friends.

Sergio Garcia

If you worry about making bogeys, it makes the game that much more difficult. You put more pressure on yourself without even noticing it. It makes a difference to take it easy when things aren't going right.

Stuart Appleby

I certainly don't think adrenalin coursing through your veins, is going to help with the fine motor skills of golf.

Stuart Appleby

I always say golf's a really good exposer of a player's personality.

Robert Browning

The trouble that most of us find with the modern matched sets of clubs is that they don't really seem to know any more about the game than the old ones did.

Robert Browning

There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which is the most bitter.

Ricky Ponting

How much golf I actually play depends on whom you ask. My wife says I'm out there every day. If you ask me, the cricket is getting in the way of the golf.

Richard Armour

Some golfers blast their ball from traps, With one adroit explosion, But others, out in ten perhaps, Depend upon erosion.

Richard Armour

This golfer has a wicked slice. And quite a follow-through. That's why his partner, who stood too close, Is on the green in two.

Richard Armour

G is for Green, that's constructed to roll in every direction away from the hole.

Richard Armour

Although practice swings Can be helpful things, Twere better, indeed, not take any Than to fiddle and fret And before playing get Exhausted from taking too many.

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.

Kevin Keegan

The great players have a set of golf clubs in their feet

Lily Tomlin

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

Thierry Henry

And I don't really like golf. I know a lot of English footballers play, but I know that if I go with the club to play, sooner or later I will end up trying to smash the ball with my foot.