Famous Quotes & Sayings

Grantland Rice

This is the substance of our Plot-For those who play the Perfect Shot, There are ten thousand who do not.

Grantland Rice

Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than nineteen years of dealing with him across the desk.

Grantland Rice

Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance.

George Lopez

Life is great and golf has been one of the great parts of it for me.

Emily Post

Golf is a particularly severe strain upon the amiability of the average person's temper, and in no other game, except bridge, is serenity of disposition so essential.

Elizabeth Gilbert

You have the opposite of poker face. You have like.. miniature golf face.

T. S. Eliot

Here were decent godless people; Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.

Sylvia Earle

Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It's agriculture. It's golf courses. It's domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf.

Ray Romano

Whenever I walk off the golf course, I thank God that I'm able to tell a joke. I thank God I'm good at something.

Ray Romano

If golf wasn't enjoyable and there wasn't a lot of humor and enjoyment, even though the game is so frustrating, you would wonder why you put yourself through it.

Ray Floyd

If I owned a Rembrandt and it had some dull colors, I don't think I'd go put reds and yellows in there just to brighten it up. I feel the same way about old golf courses. When you have a masterpiece, I sure wouldn't tinker with it.

Ray Floyd

I was from North Carolina, so as a youngster all of my mind games about golf were always, If I make this I win The Masters, if I hole this par putt I win The Masters. So it was a great thrill to play there.

Ray Floyd

I'm used to the golf course playing soft, so tomorrow I'm going to have to pay attention a little bit more.

Ray Floyd

Golf is a game, and games are meant to be enjoyed.

Ray Floyd

Visualization. It may be the most important part of your mental package.

Raphael Saadiq

I have musician friends who play too much golf, and they're not as good at music anymore.

Robert Hass

Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism.

Robin Williams

A lot of celebrities golf because they want to be away. For them it's a chance to get away and be peaceful. For me it's peaceful to ride [cycling].

Robin Williams

His golf bag does not contain a full set of irons.

Robin Williams

Golf is a game where white men can dress up as black pimps and get away with it.

Robert Redford

Golf has become so manicured, so perfect. The greens, the fairways. I don't like golf carts. I like walking. Some clubs won't let you in unless you have a caddy and a cart.

Robert Redford

I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor.

Retief Goosen

There are a number of golfers who are playing great golf in their 40s.

Retief Goosen

Golf is growing, and there are more good young players, but you don't see them going abroad. It's so expensive to travel.

Retief Goosen

Golf is flexibility, and I notice more guys injured. You can overdo this conditioning.

Rita Mae Brown

Golf is an expensive way to make yourself miserable.

Rita Mae Brown

Anyone of my generation who trusts government probably has an I.Q. that would make a good golf score.

S. I. Hayakawa

We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress, in scholastic grades or golf scores. One is often tempted to say that conflict, rather than cooperation, is the great governing principle of human life.

Rory McIlroy

Of course, money matters to everyone even if some don't want to admit it. If I won the Race to Dubai, I look at that prize money and think it could pay off my new house or the range I'm building. I am privileged to play golf for a living - look around St Andrews, that's my office.

Rory McIlroy

I feel like I came through this year stronger and wiser, and I can go into 2015 in a much better place.

Rory McIlroy

The Open is the one that we all want and strive for and to be able to hold this Claret Jug is an incredible feeling. To be three legs towards the career grand slam at the age of 25 is a pretty good achievement. It's not going to sink in for a while.

Rory McIlroy

I am a proud product of Irish golf and the Golfing Union of Ireland and am hugely honoured to have come from very rich Irish sporting roots I am also a proud Ulsterman who grew up in Northern Ireland. That is my background and always will be.