Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Henry Louis Gates

I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, 'You can like Mozart and ice hockey...' - and then I used to say 'golf,' but Tiger took over golf! - 'and Picasso and still be as black as the ace of spades.'

Henny Youngman

The other day I broke 70. That's a lot of clubs.

Henny Youngman

While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.

Gary Player

But golf being an international game and everybody loving the game the way they do, if you want to spread the game of golf, it's good that you have great competition.

Gary Player

I try to work with God as a partner.

Gary Player

Perhaps the most important thing I can tell you about equipment is to experiment and keep an open mind.

Gary Player

I always said that if they have a golf course like this in heaven, I want to be the head pro.

Gary Player

Golf is a puzzle without an answer.

Gary Player

Everyone wants to be known as a great striker of the ball for some reason. Nobody wants to be called a lucky, one-putting s.o.b.

Gary Player

You can always speak with great authority on how well you played today, but never on how you'll play tomorrow.

Gary Player

If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.

Gary Player

I've studied golf for almost 50 years now and know a hell of a lot about nothing.

Gary Player

If you think your hands are more important in your golf swing than your legs, try walking a hole on your hands.

Gary Player

Enjoy the game. Happy golf is good golf.

Gary Player

Golf asks something of a man. It makes one loathe mediocrity. It seems to say, "If you are going to keep company with me, don't embarrass me.

Gary Player

Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.

Jack Nicklaus

Nobody - but nobody - has ever become really proficient at golf without practice, without doing a lot of thinking and then hitting a lot of shots. It isn't so much a lack of talent; it's a lack of being able to repeat good shots consistently that frustrates most players. And the only answer to that is practice.

Jack Nicklaus

I don't play much golf anymore. I can't - if I break 80, I'm doing pretty well.

Bill Bryson

After years of patient study (and with cricket there can be no other kind), I have decided that there is nothing wrong with the game that the introduction of golf carts wouldn't fix in a hurry.

Bill Burr

It was right after 9/11 and I decided to walk around the grounds of the Pentagon, because I had never been there. Out of nowhere comes this speeding camouflaged golf cart and this guy starts yelling at me, 'What do you think you're doing!' The guy wrote my name down and began to follow me before I got really scared and took off as fast as I could.

Who leaves a lawn mower in the middle of the golf course? I mean, think about it -- what are the chances?

Huw Edwards

Living in Olympia has been great, ... I'm able to play some golf and do a little wine tasting.

Jerry Kelly

I was thinking to myself yesterday, 'You know, I'm 3-over and I still love the golf course,'

I tell people it's like playing golf in the middle of the Super Bowl.

When I think of golf in Southeast Missouri, I think of Jack Connell.

Annika Sorenstam

Well, it has been a long day, but I'm happy with my score. I thought I played some good golf today. And it seemed once I made a birdie, I kept going with it.

Jay Leno

President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner have agreed to play a round of golf together. Imagine the two of them at the end of that golf game? Boehner will be crying over his score and Obama will be giving three explanations as to why his score is actually better than it appears.

Jay Leno

President Clinton and President Obama played a round of golf over the weekend. President Clinton asked Obama what his handicap was, and Obama said, 'Joe Biden.'

Jay Leno

George W. Bush loves golf because it's like the election--low score wins.

Jay Leno

President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner played golf this weekend. Obama’s handicap is Joe Biden.