Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Jones

Golf is recognized as one of the more difficult games to play or teach. One reason for this is that each person necessarily plays by feel, and a feel is almost impossible to describe.

Bobby Jones

The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.

Bobby Jones

Many shots are spoiled at the last instant by efforts to add a few more yards.

Bobby Jones

Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But such is certainly not the case.

Bobby Jones

A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying.

Bobby Jones

In order to win, you must play your best golf when you need it most, and play your sloppy stuff when you can afford it. I shall not attempt to explain how you achieve this happy timing.

Bobby Jones

If I had ever been set down in any one place and told I was to play there, and nowhere else, for the rest of my life, I should have chosen the Old Course at St. Andrews.

Bobby Jones

I never learned anything from a match that I won.

Bobby Jones

You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.

Bobby Jones

Golf is the only game I know of that actually becomes harder the longer you play it.

Bobby Jones

The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.

Bobby Jones

You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.

Bobby Jones

The main idea in golf as in life, I suppose is to learn to accept what cannot be altered and to keep on doing one's own reasoned and resolute best whether the prospect be bleak or rosy.

Bobby Jones

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course

Louis Oosthuizen

I just go out there and play the game; I get on with things. Golf is not everything in life.

We are honored to host the Oklahoma Golf Classic.

Jane Blalock

I go into the locker room and find a corner and just sit there. I try to achieve a peaceful state of nothingness that will carry over onto the golf course. If I can get that feeling of quiet and obliviousness within myself, I feel I can't lose.

James Woods

Golfers are genuinely courteous in a discourteous world. Show me a guest on The Jerry Springer Show who's a golfer.

Jason Dufner

People have kind of latched on with my personality and how I play golf and how I carry myself. It seems like every town we go to, I'm experiencing newer things with these types of fans.

Jason Dufner

Using TrackMan is very important in the development of your golf game because it gives you such good data on what your golf swing is doing and where it needs to go.

Jason Aldean

My golf score is really bad. I don't know. I'm definitely not a good golfer. Off the tee box, I can drive it about 275, and I'm in the fairway about 99% of the time. It's my next shot that needs work.

Craig Ferguson

The meeting with Prince William took place at the White House because Prince William wanted to see where the president spent his days, but the golf course was covered in snow.

Calvin Coolidge

I did not see the sense in chasing a little white ball around a field.

Celine Dion

Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.

Carson Palmer

The one place where I can relax is on the golf course with my teammates and buddies, assuming I'm hitting the golf ball well. If I'm not, well, that is another story.

Charles Coody

Through the ball we are all the same. We just have different ways of getting it there.

Bruce Forsyth

When I married Wilnelia, one of the first things I wanted to know about Puerto Rico was the quality of the golf courses.

Bruce Forsyth

Golf is hugely important, as it keeps me going.

Bruce Forsyth

If I go out one night, I must stay in the next. It's the same with my golf. If I play one day, I don't play the next. I try to pace myself.

Brad Renfro

I don't go out and get arrested anymore. The most extravagant thing I do these days is play golf. I'm like an old man.

Boo Weekley

I thought I would just become a pro at a golf course.

Bruce McCall

Not even Barbra Streisand celebrates herself as tirelessly as golf celebrates itself.

Brian Weiss

Golf is like smoking, I have been trying to quit for years.