Famous Quotes & Sayings

P. G. Wodehouse

He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes to its maximum only to the man who has given up golf.

P. G. Wodehouse

I wonder what Tommy Morris would have had to say to all this number 6-iron, number 12-iron, number 28-iron stuff. He probably wouldn't have said anything, just made one of those strange Scottish noises at the back of his throat like someone gargling.

P. G. Wodehouse

There was the man who seemed to be attempting to decieve his ball and lull it into a false sense of security by looking away from it and then making a lightning slash in the apparent hope of catching it off its guard.

P. G. Wodehouse

Golf is the Great Mystery. Like some capricous goddess, it bestows its favours with what would appear an almost fat-headed lack of method and discrimination. On every side we see big two-fisted he-men floundering round in three figures, stopping every few minutes to let through little shrimps with knock-knees and hollow cheeks, who are tearing up snappy seventy-fours.

P. G. Wodehouse

Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with one ounce more brain than a cuckoo clock. I wish to goodness I knew the man who invented this infernal game. I'd strangle him. But I suppose he's been dead for ages. Still, I could go and jump on his grave.

Paul Pierce

I worked at a hospital for a week. And at a golf course when I was in college at Kansas for about a week. The tips weren't good so I quit.

Lee Westwood

A fantastic golf course and venue. It's one of those places that you always look forward to going back to...no matter how many times you have been there before.

Lee Westwood

Golf is played between the ears and if you are not 100 percent focused on what you are trying to do, then people will go past you no matter who you are.

Lee Westwood

In my case what happened next in 1999 was that I fell apart over that back nine. When I saw I was in genuine contention that year I felt like throwing up. That remains probably the most nervous I've ever been on a golf course.

Lee Westwood

Golf is difficult to get your personality over because you are such a bottle of concentration.

Lee Westwood

I'd been told there are 10 difficult holes and eight impossible ones. I'm still trying to work out which the 10 difficult holes are.

P. J. O'Rourke

Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.

P. J. O'Rourke

You can smoke or drink on a golf course without interrupting the game, and you can take a leak - something you can't do on a squash court and shouldn't do in a swimming pool.

Pablo Picasso

The older you get the stronger the wind gets and it's always in your face.

Paul McGinley

We all knew the exam we were going to sit this week.

Paul McGinley

The TV and the public pay our wages and they like to see professional golfers mess it up. Missing a green with a chip shot - when do you see that? It's great to see exciting golf like we had last week.

Ken Buck

In my life, I'd like to play more golf and, and get a decent handicap.

Kinky Friedman

Golf is the only opportunity that middle-aged WASPs have to dress up like a pimp.

Marc Anthony

Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.

Kenny G

I'm just more into playing golf. It's a great thing.

Kenny G

I've never really played golf. With the sax, I learned technique well enough so that it feels like part of my body, and I just express myself. That's where I want to get in golf.

A round of golf involves playing 18 holes, so no matter what I did earlier, it wasn't an impressive finish,

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.

Mike Holder

I try to simulate the most difficult conditions the players will encounter during competition.

Terry Bradshaw

I know this golf tournament has my name on it but it's not about me. It's about the Louisiana Tech family. There is nothing greater than being a part of the Bulldog family.