Golf Quotes

Golf isn't just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and putting into soup cans, out of the ivy and over rose bushes and hedges - the little Alcott Golf and Country Club. I just loved having a wedge in my hands.

A golf course is nothing but a pool room moved outdoors.

I've played such good golf, and it was hard coming up and it wasn't easy in any matches or any shots. It means a lot. I think hopefully it will mean a lot to New Zealand because I'm the next winner of the U.S. Amateur after Danny Lee.

So, you know, if, if I wanted to get up and just play golf one day, I would just get up and play golf. If I wanted to go to Vegas, I would just get up and go to Vegas.

It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.

This thing is for the game of golf, yeah, but trust me, the Europeans don't have that mentality.

For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.

I like to try to give something back to the community because I feel fortunate for how I was raised and how my life turned out. Each year, with the help of my brother, Grant, we run a charity golf tournament to raise money for the Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy.

Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.

I have a tip that will take five strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.

Golf is a game in which you yell "fore," shoot six, and write down five.

I was in the middle of the golf tournament trying to make birdies and I was just having a blast. So that probably qualifies as having a greater appreciation.

But I can only take so much TV, because there is so much advice. I find people will preach about virtually anything - your diet, how to live your life, how to improve your golf. The lot. I have always had a thing against the Mister Know-It-Alls.

It's incredible, ridiculous really, isn't it? You realise you can make more money on the golf tour in one week than some people make in a lifetime.

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.

But I think the guys are very happy to accommodate the people and that's part of golf in general.

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.

In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.

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

That's what makes the Ryder Cup in golf so much better than the Masters or the U.S. Open. To be a part of something that is not about personal achievement, but about representing everyone and sharing it with the whole country, it's wonderful.

I don't have a lot of hobbies. I don't play golf. I don't have any children. Things that occupy people's time. I just try to take jobs.

I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

Two things I take very seriously in life. My golf game and my relationship with God. Neither one is simple.

You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later.

Golf courses sell real estate and that's why they're built.

The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.

Golf is more fun than walking naked in a strange place, but not much.

That's the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on.

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.