Famous Quotes & Sayings

P. J. O'Rourke

The great thing about starting golf in your forties is that you can start golf in your forties. You can start other things in your forties but generally your wife makes you stop them, as Bill Clinton found out.

Paula Creamer

I'm getting more and more comfortable out on the golf course with the changes I've been making. It's really just a confidence thing in that I love being in contention.

Paula Creamer

I have been an avid reader of 'Golf Digest' ever since I started playing this great game.

Paula Creamer

I've always said, the harder the golf course, the better I play.

Paula Creamer

Practice, work out, proper nutrition, lots of work on my short game. In golf, that's really where the strokes come off the scorecard.

Paula Creamer

Every woman should recruit a female friend to take up golf so there will be more women available to play.

Martin Sheen

Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor.

Martin Sheen

Golf is fundamentally about being honest. I see people hit eight shots and tell me they shot five. I never say a word. It is a reminder to me of what is at stake.

Martin Sheen

Anybody who plays golf will tell you that you play against yourself.

Lance Armstrong

I still don't get golf.

John Updike

The other sad truth about golf spectatorship is that for today's pros it all comes down to the putting, and that the difference between a putt that drops and one that rims the cup, though teleologically enormous, is intellectually negligeable.

John Updike

Golf camaraderie, like that of astronauts and Antarctic explorers, is based on a common experience of transcendence; fat or thin, scratch or duffer, we have been somerwhere together where non-golfers never go.

John Updike

Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.

John Updike

...as all souls are equal before their Maker, a two inch putt counts the same as a 250 yard drive. There is a comedy in this and a certain unfairness even, which makes golf an even apter mirror of reality.

John Updike

The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.

John Updike

The muttered hint, "Remember, you have a stroke here," freezes my joints like a blast from Siberia.

John Shelby Spong

I don't think much about my physical body going off into the long, green fairways of heaven to play golf.

John Scott

You look out on the driving range and it looks like snow, but it isn't, it's covered in golf balls.

Peter Andrews

There is one thing in this world that is dumber than playing golf. That is watching someone else playing golf. What do you actually get to see? Thirty-seven guys in polyester slacks squinting at the sun. Doesn't that set your blood racing?

Peter Alliss

It is not a matter of life and death. It is not that important. But it is a reflection of life, and so the game is an enigma wrapped in a mystery impaled on a conundrum.

Peter Alliss

The game lends itself to fantasies about our abilities.

Peter Alliss

Those trees seem to grow every year...

Peter Alliss

He used to be fairly indecisive, but now he's not so certain.

Mariska Hargitay

Golf made me feel like a loser. So I dismissed it.

Nick Faldo

You've got a fairly good idea as to what the questions are going to be. But how to record the best answer is another matter.

Nick Faldo

The word is control. That's my ultimate - to have control.

Nick Faldo

Tempo is the glue that sticks all elements of the golf swing together.

Nick Faldo

I never mixed with golfers when I was playing, mainly because I didn't want to talk golf all night.

Nick Faldo

It goes without saying that it is no good having a perfect setup, perfect grip and perfect golf swing if the whole thing is misaligned. It sounds obvious but many players simply do not spend enough time getting themselves on target.

Nick Faldo

Golf is not about the quality of your good shots, it is about the quality of your bad shots.

Nick Faldo

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

When it blows here, even the seagulls walk.

Nora Johnson

I used to think that elder love, if it even existed, was confined to rocking chairs or golf carts, that it had to be a dull business because of the physical limitations of age.