Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Long

Imagine what we can do if we took this tournament to 1.3 million people as opposed to just Greensboro. There's a huge market for this golf tournament that's just waiting to be tapped into.

Ellen DeGeneres

I always worry when someone's a good golfer. It's like you shouldn't have time to be good at anything. You should just be a politician and you shouldn't have time to practice golf.

Dan Marino

Swing hard in case you hit it.

Colman McCarthy

Indeed, the highest pleasure of golf may be that on the fairways and far from all the pressures of commerce and rationality, we can feel immortal for a few hours.

Colin Montgomerie

To be truthful, I think golfers are overpaid. It's unreal, and I have trouble dealing with the guilt sometimes.

Colin Montgomerie

That's great. They should put the hole in the fairway.

Colin Montgomerie

I'm a great believer that if you don't get the ball to the hole, it won't go in.

Gary Player

As we all know... golf is a puzzle without an answer.

Stephen Ames

When you live in Calgary and take 10 weeks off from golf, you're just trying to get back to basics.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Roy Keane

You shouldn't have spoken to the players like that. No, you should have.

Ned Colletti

Do I use VORP? I may be using it and not even know it, and if I am, it's nobody's business. There are a lot of different criteria in judging players. I think I use, um, esoteric qualitative mathematical review times five. That's one of them.

Bobby Martin

Somebody told me this the other day, but J.C. could probably average 30 points per game on another team. Or vice-versa for Ridge. But by sharing it makes us an even bigger threat.

Bobby Rahal

In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.

Ivor Novello

The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment.

Jack Nicholson

The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.

Ken Thompson

Modern intensive farmland is a biological desert. Whereas if you tried to design a small nature reserve, you couldn't do better than the average garden - it's got all the required elements.

Carol Thorp

Motorists can expect two to three weeks more of price increases that could send the average price of regular as high as $3.10 to $3.20 per gallon.

Ayn Rand

Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters

Jeff Kinney

My life is pretty ordinary in so many ways. I live in a town called Plainville. I have the life of an average dad. It feels like I have this secret identity as an author, and it's still very surreal to me.

Ann Aguirre

My life experiences are different than the average person because I've spent the last 10 years living in Mexico. I generally don't know what's going on in America, and when I do visit for work, I'm often interrogated about my life choices by random strangers.