Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Hagen

He may have gone to bed three hours ago, but he knows who he is playing. You can rest assured that he hasn't slept a wink.

Walter Hagen

Which one of you is going to be runner-up?

Walter Hagen

Here Eddie, hold the flag while I putt out.

Walter Hagen

That's the easiest 69 I ever made.

Walter Hagen

If you worry about the ones you missed, you are going to keep missing them.

Walter Hagen

When I have a match to play, I begin to relax as soon as I wake up. Everything I do, I do slow and easy. That goes for stroking the razor, getting dressed, and eating my breakfast. I'm practically in slow motion. By the time I'm ready to tee off, I'm so used to taking my time that it's impossible to hurry my swing.

Walter Hagen

Every golfer can expect to have four bad shots in a round and when you do, just put them out of your mind. This, of course is hard to do when you've had them and you're not even off the first tee.

Walter Hagen

I would rather be of clear mind and decision with the wrong club than with an unclear mind and the right club.

Yogi Berra

I enjoy now doing what I do... playing golf, relaxing a little, enjoying life.

Yogi Berra

Ninety percent of putts that are short, don't go in.

Winifred Holtby

[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization.

Winston Churchill

Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.

Winston Churchill

Golf. Trying to knock a tiny ball into an even smaller hole with implements ill suited to the purpose.

Trent Dilfer

I had very low expectations. Honestly, I think I had 11 rounds of golf the entire year in before this tournament, and I had hit balls maybe four or five times.

Trent Dilfer

If you take my entire golfing life, my favorites are the older courses, the more traditional and the more authentic.

Tracy Byrd

We like to hunt and golf and drive around lost, and scratch and spit, and a whole lot of other disgusting stuff.

Samuel Johnson

Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.

Ronald Reagan

My golf-loving friend Bob Hope asked me what my handicap was, so I told him - the Congress.

William Davis

There are two basic rules which should never be broken. Be subtle. And don't, for God's sake, try to do business with anyone who's having a bad game.

Yani Tseng

With Tiger Woods, you know everyone is watching. But I think interest in women's golf is getting better too.

Remember, there are so many golf tournaments that they tend to get watered down,

Our objective is to (essentially) take a 20-acre piece of Gore-Tex and put it over this golf course.

In three other occasions when I was younger, I had to take the penalties. I learned from my parents about morals and from junior golf as well.

If you wanted to have a meeting or a golf outing, which would you choose?

Bernhard Langer

In '85, I'd been married for one year and I was still very single-minded on golf. My life was pretty much 95% golf and my wife was the rest.

In the golf industry, there is a hesitation to tell the truth.

E. B. White

I just tried to regroup. The only thing I could do was put pressure on him and the only way to do that was to just keep hitting good golf shots. I was able to put together a string right in a row there that really put me in good position to win.

Mike Royko

Hey, Dennis, this is Mike! Kick me, please! I'll settle for the price of a set of golf clubs.

I need to get better at everything especially my short game. I really want to play golf for the University of Texas if I can, but that's going to take a lot of work to get there, so we'll just see. Now, I'm just happy to play in high school and have fun.

Jimmy Walker

I'm happy where I'm at. I was really good today at working my way around the golf course.

Jimmy Dean

I know it's only February, and golf is not on people's minds, but last year we turned down 30 golfers.

Hale Irwin

I hit a lot of very good golf shots this week,

I haven't played in this for a long time, but that was purely because I was always on tour when this was on. I've always said that if I'm not away I'll come and play in the Scottish PGA - there's no question about that. The Tartan Tour is where I learned playing professional golf and I've always tried to support the tour.