Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Player

But golf being an international game and everybody loving the game the way they do, if you want to spread the game of golf, it's good that you have great competition.

Gary Player

I try to work with God as a partner.

Gary Player

Perhaps the most important thing I can tell you about equipment is to experiment and keep an open mind.

Gary Player

I always said that if they have a golf course like this in heaven, I want to be the head pro.

Gary Player

Golf is a puzzle without an answer.

Gary Player

Everyone wants to be known as a great striker of the ball for some reason. Nobody wants to be called a lucky, one-putting s.o.b.

Gary Player

You can always speak with great authority on how well you played today, but never on how you'll play tomorrow.

Gary Player

If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.

Gary Player

I've studied golf for almost 50 years now and know a hell of a lot about nothing.

Gary Player

If you think your hands are more important in your golf swing than your legs, try walking a hole on your hands.

Gary Player

Enjoy the game. Happy golf is good golf.

Gary Player

Golf asks something of a man. It makes one loathe mediocrity. It seems to say, "If you are going to keep company with me, don't embarrass me.

Gary Player

Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.

Gary Player

You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.

Gary Player

It's a marriage. If I had to choose between my wife and my putter, well, I'd miss her.

Chris Tucker

I tell people that stand-up's like golf: you gotta do it every day to get it down - or at least three times a week to get it down.

George W. Bush

The problem with golf is I have to deal with a humiliation factor.

George W. Bush

I call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers. Thank you. Now watch this drive.

George Plimpton

Golf cannot be played in anger, or in any mood of emotiional excess. Half the golf balls struck by amateurs are hit if not in rage surely in bewilderment, or gloom, or in cynicism, or even hysterically - all of those emotional excesses must be contained by the professional. Which is why balance is one of the essential ingredients of golf. Professionals invariably trudge phlegmatically around the course - whatever emotions are seething within - with the grim yet placid and bored look of cowpokes, slack-bodied in their saddles, who have been tending the same herd for two months.

Franz Beckenbauer

Germany needs to have a handicap, like in golf. They ought to start each match with two goals in advance to their opposition.

I am relying on the theory that playing golf is just like riding a bike and that I haven't forgotten how.

Jim Furyk

My only goal is to look back at the end of each year and see that I have improved.

Gil Gerard

I have a project at HBO and one at the Family Channel coming that are being looked at. Aside from that I am not doing much more than playing golf and some skiing.

Hale Irwin

The USGA doesn't want to recognize the fact that today's players are better than ever. They seem willing to do anything to prevent us from shooting scores that would make us appear better than the great names of the past.

Hale Irwin

The best quick tip in golf is to focus on your rhythm and balance.

Hale Irwin

New Zealand has a great reputation in America for golf.

Hale Irwin

You can talk about strategy all you want, but what really matters is resiliency.

Hollis Stacy

Why do we work so hard to feel so terrible?

Hollis Stacy

I can't see anyone coming out, because the players feel it is no one's business. We all stick together. We're a very tight group. It would be too hard for just one person to do, too stressful. And why should it make a difference? The LPGA is about golf.

Hollis Stacy

The competition I played against was fantastic, but golf is a different game now. The courses have shrunk because the equipment has gotten better. They're hitting the ball 10 to 15 percent farther because of the changes in the golf ball.

Hollis Stacy

Women's golf definitely hit a bump in the road. We lost some tournaments due to a combination of things led by the downturn in the economy.

Hollis Stacy

I realize that's why we play golf, to hit the ball into the hole. But it is a strange feeling when you hit the shot and it actually goes in.

Ian Poulter

The last thing you want to do is shoot 80 wearing 'tartan troosers'.