Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Kite

We went around and looked and talked to a lot of foundations with those charities and decided upon the Childrens Hospital. They had a golf tournament at the time, but it was a small event that didnt raise a significant amount of money.

Tom Kite

It is a very positive event, being nervous. It allows you to do great things.

Tom Kite

Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.

Tom Kite

Golf course design is exciting.

Tom Kite

I won my tournament. I won the Silver Medal.

Tom Kite

It's a heck of a lot harder to stay on top than it is to get there.

Tom Kite

Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested.

Tom Doak

The best designs of all are organic, evolving from the subtleties of the ground they inhabit.

Stephen Merchant

I like playing a bit of golf. But, if people went around beating people to death with golf clubs, I'd say, 'Ban golf. I'll take up tennis'

Stephen Leacock

I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.

Tea Leoni

At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes

Thomas Friedman

Every golf course should have its carbon rating on the scorecard, alongside its Course Rating, Slope, par and yardage.

Thomas Boswell

A major golf tournament is 40,000 sadists watching 144 masochists.

Thomas Boswell

As every golfer knows, no one ever lost his mind over one shot. It is rather the gradual process of shot after shot watching your score go to tatters - knowing that you have found a different way to bogey each hole.

Thomas Boswell

At its best, the US Open demands straight drives, crisp iron shots, brilliant chipping and putting, and strategic position play. Plus the patience of St. Francis and the will of Patton. At its worst, the Open eradicates the difference in ability between a Tom Purtzer and a Tom Watson and throws both in the same jail of high rough and high risk shots. This is the disturbing tendency in the Opens of the seventies and eighties, one which worries everyone in golf.

Thomas Boswell

I may be the only golfer never to have broken a single putter, if you don't count the one I twisted into a loop and threw into a bush.

Vijay Singh

The more they made noise, the more calm I became.

Vijay Singh

If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.

Rita Mae Brown

Golf is an expensive way to make yourself miserable.

Rita Mae Brown

Anyone of my generation who trusts government probably has an I.Q. that would make a good golf score.

Robert Harris

If long hitting is the thing that causes the spectators to whistle through their teeth in wonderment, why not play tournaments up and down an expansive stadium?

Robert Harris

In a generation or two, or maybe sooner, young golfers of true sporting instinct will wonder why all this handling of the ball is necessary. It will seem to them that the game is not as good as it might be.

Robert Harris

Golf requires only a few simple Rules and Regulations to guide the players in the true nature of its sporting appeal. The spirit of the game is its own referee.

Robert Ballard

Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet.

Richard Roeper

You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later.

Robin Williams

A lot of celebrities golf because they want to be away. For them it's a chance to get away and be peaceful. For me it's peaceful to ride [cycling].

Robin Williams

His golf bag does not contain a full set of irons.

Robin Williams

Golf is a game where white men can dress up as black pimps and get away with it.

Robert Redford

Golf has become so manicured, so perfect. The greens, the fairways. I don't like golf carts. I like walking. Some clubs won't let you in unless you have a caddy and a cart.

Robert Redford

I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor.

Retief Goosen

There are a number of golfers who are playing great golf in their 40s.

Retief Goosen

Golf is growing, and there are more good young players, but you don't see them going abroad. It's so expensive to travel.

Retief Goosen

Golf is flexibility, and I notice more guys injured. You can overdo this conditioning.