Famous Quotes & Sayings

Annika Sorenstam

To play well you have to have good balance in your life. Tiger has found that. If you play golf long enough you'll learn that life is more than golf.

Andrew Carnegie

Golf is an indispensable adjunct to high civilisation.

Amy Alcott

You could argue that if the average golfer plays a golf course with 430-yard par 4s and they always miss the green, that's good practice. It's definitely great practice to play a course that's too long for you.

Amy Alcott

What makes a great golf course is continuity and variety: right-to-left holes, left-to-right holes.

Amy Alcott

My parents didn't play golf.

Clare Balding

I play golf - even though I'm awful at it.

David Simon

The mismanagement of American newspapering is quite remarkable. But all of the fellows responsible are now on a golf course in Hilton Head or some such (place), having secured their bonuses and golden-parachute buyouts.

Alice Cooper

What most people don't understand is that UFOs are on a cosmic tourist route. That's why they're always seen in Arizona, Scotland, and New Mexico. Another thing to consider is that all three of those destinations are good places to play golf. So there's possibly some connection between aliens and golf.

Andy Lau

Now I do bowling, golf, and tennis. I want to be a good bowler.

Anne Fortier

For as long as I could remember, he had never worn a single piece of clothing that could be considered casual. Khaki shorts and golf shirts, to Umberto, were the garments of men who have no virtues left, not even shame.

Zach Johnson

I'm not the most charismatic, maybe emotional, fun-packed individual on the golf course; I get that.

Those are some great golfers who spent a lot of time on our courses.

Joe Walsh

We'll have first-aid golf carts outfitted so you can lay people on a stretcher, just like we had at the old stadium.

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.

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.

Ray Romano

Whenever I walk off the golf course, I thank God that I'm able to tell a joke. I thank God I'm good at something.

Ray Romano

If golf wasn't enjoyable and there wasn't a lot of humor and enjoyment, even though the game is so frustrating, you would wonder why you put yourself through it.

Ray Floyd

If I owned a Rembrandt and it had some dull colors, I don't think I'd go put reds and yellows in there just to brighten it up. I feel the same way about old golf courses. When you have a masterpiece, I sure wouldn't tinker with it.

Ray Floyd

I was from North Carolina, so as a youngster all of my mind games about golf were always, If I make this I win The Masters, if I hole this par putt I win The Masters. So it was a great thrill to play there.

Ray Floyd

I'm used to the golf course playing soft, so tomorrow I'm going to have to pay attention a little bit more.

Ray Floyd

Golf is a game, and games are meant to be enjoyed.

Ray Floyd

Visualization. It may be the most important part of your mental package.

Raphael Saadiq

I have musician friends who play too much golf, and they're not as good at music anymore.

Robert Hass

Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism.

Richard Branson

Companies need to have a lot more flexibility with their people... . If somebody wants to golf around the world for two months, okay, well, maybe on an unpaid basis, let them do it. That sort of flexibility I think is incredibly important because most of our time, we spend at work.

Sam Snead

I was a better player at 50 than I was at 30.

Sam Snead

But you don't have to go up in the stands and play your foul balls. I do.