Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lee Trevino

To me, the [British] Open is the tournament I would come to if I had to leave a month before and swim over.

Lee Trevino

You don't know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two bucks in your pocket.

Lee Trevino

I'm not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they'd come up sliced.

Lee Trevino

Who can say I have a bad swing? The only thing that matters in golf is the score you put on the board. You don't have to look pretty out there, you have to win. Look at my record and tell me who has a better swing than mine.

Lee Trevino

Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe.

Lee Trevino

My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch.

Lauren Hutton

The doctors told me I'd be fine if I play only golf and tennis doubles for the rest of my life. But I dive. I dogsled. I trek. I guess I'll have surgery.

Larry Nelson

It's just to let the other one know it can be replaced.

Larry Nelson

There's not much pressure on the golf Tour. Walking to the first tee is in no way comparable to walking through the jungle in combat

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.

Kapil Dev

I have great respect for Jaypee Greens as a company that has produced a truly world class, 24-carat, championship golf course. I am happy to be associated with a company with such outstanding qualities.

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.

Justin Leonard

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

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.

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.

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.