Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Nelson

If I can hit a curveball, why can't I hit a ball that is standing still on a course?

Lewis Black

Self-love is a big part of golf.

Lewis Black

If I get a week off, I'll go to a hotel that has a golf course. I like to come downstairs and go right onto the course. I'll do that five days in a row.

Lewis Black

I think one reason people play golf is it allows them to obsess about something other than the daily crap. It takes your mind off that.

Julius Boros

The putter looks like a bunch of nuts and bolts welded together, but the ball goes in the hole.

Julius Boros

Retire to what? I already play golf and fish for a living.

Julius Boros

Retire to what? I'm a golfer and a fisherman. I've got no place to retire to.

Julius Boros

Swing easy and hit hard.

Justin Leonard

I have those (goals) written down, but don't want to discuss them. Right now, I just want to keep on improving.

Karrie Webb

It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks

Karrie Webb

I think travel is probably the downside of playing professional golf, but you've got to do it.

Karrie Webb

I've always wanted to be a professional golfer and I'm glad that came true

Karrie Webb

Golf's a funny game. You can be playing poorly and then go and win a tournament.

John Daly

He's tough (Tiger Woods). I wish I was that tough when I was his age.

John Daly

Seems I used to do everything like I was on a mission. If it was alcohol, I wanted to drink till I couldn't see straight. If it was golf, I wanted to beat everybody's brains out. If it was driving, I can get there faster'n you can. It's not anybody's fault, I guess. I was stubborn as hell. I had no direction.

John Daly

All four days I didn't think. I just hit. Squeaky (Medlen, his caddy) said 'kill' and I killed it.

John Daly

I've got the drinkers and the smokers and the eaters on my side.

John Daly

I will just put four or five extra packs of cigarettes in my bag and I will be fine.

John Daly

This fitness thing is blown out of proportion. What am I going to do on a treadmill - smoke a cigarette and drink a diet Coke?

John Daly

My slogan is who needs fitness when you've got great equipment.

John Daly

I learned you can't drink whiskey and play golf.

John Daly

Do I have to know rules and all that crap? Then forget it.

Lindsey Vonn

Golf is all about patience - one tournament is four days long, 18 holes a day.

Lyndon B. Johnson

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I don't have any handicap. I am all handicap.

Luke Donald

The qualifying system helps the top guys like Sergio Garcia, who play most of their golf in the U.S. They can rely on the world rankings and just play their four extra events [with the four majors and three World Golf Championship events counting as seven European events]. But for the other guys it's tough, and I don't know if that can be changed. It is a tricky situation.

Lou Holtz

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.

Harlan Coben

I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.

Grantland Rice

There are three types of golf: golf, tournament golf and Major championship golf.

Grantland Rice

Few learn golf in a lifetime.

Grantland Rice

Rhythm is best expressed in any swing directed at a cigar stump or a dandelion head.

Grantland Rice

Because golf exposes the flaws of the human swing - a basically simple maneuver - it causes more self-torture than any game short of Russian roulette.

Grantland Rice

There is no type of miracle that can't happen at least once in golf.