Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Shelby Spong

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

Shia LaBeouf

I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made - my swing is pretty hot.

Natalie Portman

I'm really good at mini-golf. You know, maybe not big person golf, but little person golf.

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.

Michelle Wie

The first time I grabbed a golf club, I knew that I'd do it for the rest of my life.

John F. Kennedy

It is true that my predecessor did not object, as I do, to pictures of one's golf skill in action. But neither, on the other hand, did he ever bean a Secret Serviceman.

John F. Kennedy

Show me a man with a great golf game, and I’ll show you a man who has been neglecting something.

Jon Stewart

The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart between shots at PGA Tour events. Man, the next thing you know, they're going to have some guy carry his clubs around for him.

Justin Timberlake

I like to play golf. I like to shoot hoops.

Justin Timberlake

You have a lot of time on these tours. As Alice Cooper said, you can either drink all day or golf.

Justin Timberlake

I get way more nervous playing golf in front of 500 people than being on stage in front of 20,000 people.

Pete Dye

Every time you build a golf course, it’s not a golf course when you get there. You have to improvise.

Pete Dye

Golf is not a fair game, so why build a course fair?

Phil Mickelson

The winner of this tournament doesn't just win a major. He become a part of the history of the game.

Phil Mickelson

It should almost be a prerequisite to play Castle Stuart before you're allowed to design golf courses nowadays.

Phil Mickelson

I think it's more than whether or not you win or lose. It's having that opportunity on that final round, final nine, to come down the stretch with a chance to win.

Phil Mickelson

My style of play won't ever change, because I enjoy that aggressive style of golf. It allows me to play my best. When I attack pins, I stay more focused. I get more into the shot and, consequently, I get more out of the shot and out of my game by playing aggressive.

Phil Mickelson

The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win.

Mike Greenberg

My wife is my favorite person I've ever met in my 40 years on the planet, and I'm sure she would agree that patience is not her strongest characteristic. I don't know that golf would be the game for her.

Mike Greenberg

Golf is a game of endless failure and frustration.

Patty Berg

There is nothing in this game of golf that can't be improved upon if you practice.

Patty Berg

The more you play it the less you know about it.

Joe E. Lewis

I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.

Eric Dickerson

I love golf. But do you know how I got good at golf? Because of Charles Barkley. I was playing with Charles, Michael Jordan and Roy Green, and Charles was talking so much trash. On every shot, he was talking trash. So I left the tournament, and I went and practiced for a year and half.

Eric Dickerson

I've stayed buddies with my old buddy Jackie Slater. I talk to Jackie Slater. I play golf with Marcus Allen a lot. I play golf with Marshall Faulk a lot. My buddy Craig Young, he lives up in New Mexico. I still talk to a lot of the guys.

John Gunther

One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.

Leslie Nielsen

The reason they call if 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up.

Leslie Nielsen

Those who the gods seek to destroy first, learn how to play golf.