Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ed McMahon

Agriculture is the new golf

Elinor Lipman

I watch golf on television, although I don't golf - except for visits to the driving range in spurts.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.

Scott didn't have a good day on the greens today. If he did, I probably don't win the golf tournament.

Edward VIII

I like going there for golf. America's one vast golf course these days.

Pat Riley

We didn't do as well as we've done this year, but it was just really great to be there, ... There's a lot of great golfers there and we'll be back next year.

We want to be the toughest team mentally there. We want to play 45 holes of golf and get ourselves in position to win, and then whatever happens that last nine holes happens.

Alistair Cooke

In golf, humiliations are the essence of the game.

Alistair Cooke

I have an insane desire to shave a stroke or two off my handicap.

Alistair Cooke

Americans are less mystical about what produced their inland or meadow courses; they are the product of the bulldozerm rotary ploughs, mowers, sprinkler systems and alarmingly generous wads of folding money.

Alistair Cooke

It rose slowly like a gull sensing a reckless blue fish to close to the surface, and then it dived relentlessly for the green, kicked and stopped three feet short of the flag.

Alistair Cooke

[Golfers] are a special kind of moral relist who nips the normal romantic and idealstic yearnings in the bud by proving once or twice a week that life is unconquerable but endurable.

Alistair Cooke

The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican of golf - is of St. Andrew himself bearing the slatier cross on which, once he was captured at Patras, he was to be stretched before he was crucified.Only the Scots would have thought of celebrating a national game with the figure of a tortured saint.

Alistair Cooke

The Scots say that Nature itself dictated that golf should be played by the seashore. Rather, the Scots saw in the eroded sea coasts a cheap battleground on which they could whip their fellow men in a game based on the Calvinist doctrine that man is meant to suffer here below and never more than when he goes out to enjoy himself.

Alistair Cooke

To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and subtle series of highly unnatural movements, involving about sixty-four muscles, that result in a seemingly natural swing, taking two seconds to begin and end.

Alistair Cooke

It is a wonderful tribute to the game or to the dottiness of the people who play it that for some people somewhere there is no such thing as an insurmountable obstacle, an unplayable course, the wrong time of the day or year.

Alistair Cooke

They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why.

Alistair Cooke

The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible.

Fred Couples

When you see her hit a golf ball, nothing prepares you for it. It's just the scariest thing you have ever seen.

We're evaluating it on an ongoing basis. Our research tell us that golfers want to see the commercials -- particularly equipment. So we're watching it closely.

Dan Jenkins

Real golf is the 20 million people who play once a week or once a month.

We don't have any matches down there. We're just going to play golf.

Donald Trump

The interesting thing is that everyone in golf is just nice. You learn a lot about people playing golf: their integrity, how they play under pressure.

We want to make as much noise about this as we can to let golfers at home know what they are missing.

A. P. Herbert

Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behaviour not otherwise excusable.

A. P. Herbert

My ball is in a bunch of fern, A jolly place to be; An angry man is close astern- He waves his club at me. Well, let him wave-the sky is blue; Go on, old ball, we are but two-We may be down in three, Or nine-or ten-or twenty-five-It matters not; to be alive, Is good enough for me.

Aaron Baddeley

Once you have your practice and you have your mechanics, you must be able to go out there and trust your mechanics.

I tell people retirement isn't what you think. You are going to sit around and waste your life, you can only golf so much. To stay young, you have to stay in the mix.

A. A. Milne

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.

People were playing golf there two weeks ago.

One of the growing trends is glow-in-the-dark miniature golf. Within the last three years, it has kind of boomed.

My level of play has dropped, not out of neglect or anything. It's just that's the way it goes. I mean, golf is a weird game.

Louis Oosthuizen

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