Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Poulter

It's [Augusta National] a difficult course and it doesn't make it easier when you have three shanks.

Ian Poulter

Faldo has lost a lot of respect from players because of what he said.

Ian Poulter

I don't like the way most people dress on the golf course. I think it's pretty bland, pretty boring.

George Carlin

O. J. Simpson has already received the ultimate punishment: For the rest of his life he has to associate with golfers.

George Carlin

So I do have this ambivalence. Obviously I'm against militaries, because of what militaries do. In many ways though, the air force was unmilitary-like. They dropped bombs on people, but...they had a golf course.

Gene Sarazen

My caddie 'Stovepipe' tried to talk me into hitting a 3-wood. But I took out the turf rider (4-wood) instead. The moment I hit it, I felt something in my bones. Walter Hagen was playing with me and Bobby Jones was on the green. 21 people were behind the green. The sun was going down. I wasn't sure it had gone in the hole until I saw all 21 people jumping up and down.

Gene Sarazen

Even when times were good, I realized that my earning power as a golf professional depended on too many ifs and putts.

Gene Sarazen

Scott Medlock's portrait of 'the shot heard around the world' from the 1935 Masters is still being celebrated as a moment in Golf History. Imagine that!

Gene Sarazen

I have been able to hope for the best, expect the worst, and take what comes along. If there has been one fundamental reason for my success, this is it.

Gene Sarazen

Oakmont possesses all the charm of a sock to the head.

Jesper Parnevik

If he keeps playing like he is playing there is not much we can do about it. He is playing great and he seems to love this golf course,

Stuart Rothenberg

If Gore were up 10 points, this wouldn't happen. There would be a lot of golf to be played otherwise.

Ken Scott

If I lived here, I'd be here every day. It's a magnificent golf course.

I'd gotten in the habit of doing different things at home instead of practicing golf.

Chi Rodriguez

I can't wait until we make an eagle.

Brad Faxon

I don't think there can be a greater honor for any golfer, what they can do off the golf course,

I'd say 'focus, focus, focus' so many times they probably got sick of it. But that's how we did things, and how we do things with the golf tournament.

Jerry Pate

Dennis Murray is a wonderful Golf Professional who is personable and skillful as an instructor. Dennis helped me work on my golf swing for a full week back in the 80's when I was still playing the PGA Tour. His instruction was great and helped my game very much.

Jim Gaffigan

You didn't question - kind of like, you would go to college. You would wear a tie to work. You would, you know, you would work for 40 years. And then you would play golf for three years, and then you would die. That was how I was raised.

Jim Bishop

A golf ball can stop in the fairway, rough, woods, bunker or lake. With five equally likely options, very few balls choose the fairway.

Jim Bishop

Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.

Especially for golfers who get yippy on short putts, it can make a difference. Where they have trouble is on longer putts, because you don't have the same feel for pace.

Everything ground to a halt if he was going to play golf or if he was on the move to the airport.

Tom Watson

You don't win golf tournaments when you do that.

Robert Kiyosaki

I thrive on the adrenaline of excitement and danger. I just cannot stand boredom on the other side of it. Why am I a person who loves guns? I have no idea. Why do I like to go hunting? I don't know. It doesn't make sense to me. Why does somebody love golf, because that doesn't make sense to me either.

Adlai Stevenson

Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses.

Colin Montgomerie

We are watching here a unique golfer on a unique golf course.

We had six consecutive rounds where we shot pretty well. Then we played poorly last week and sometimes in golf when you get going a roll it is hard to get off.

Mats Sundin

I've been back and forth, traveling a lot, nothing too exciting. I played too much golf, I'm sick of that. . . . I missed playing hockey.

Lanny Wadkins

They all look like world beaters, but when they go on the golf course, they have that same practice-tee mentality.

What a round of golf that is. I saw him at 8 under and thought he was playing a scramble with Ted Purdy.

We talked more about what it takes to play golf than how to play golf.

Michael Dowd

When I started this, it was municipal all the way. I had no hint that the Seneca Nation would be interested, but this is nothing like the town golf course. This will be a destination course.