Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. Quotes

I would like to deny all allegations by Bob Hope that during my last game of golf, I hit an eagle, a birdie, an elk and a moose.

Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.

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• Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Character
  • Success
  • Golf

• To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Yourself
  • Golf
  • Distance

• Lots of people still don't think of golf as a sport.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • People
  • Think
  • Golf

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

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Up
  • May
  • Nice

• Of course, Dwight D. Eisenhower gets credit for doing more for golf than any other White House resident, a mid- to high-handicapper though he was.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • High
  • House
  • Doing

• 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?

  

  Hal Linden
  • Why
  • Myself
  • Challenge

• The key to any good sports story is identifying the defining moment. In football games or a boxing match, it's usually pretty obvious. But in golf, sometimes it happens on Thursday. Usually it's Sunday, but guys who don't know the game, they can miss it.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Good
  • Game
  • Pretty

• I enjoy now doing what I do... playing golf, relaxing a little, enjoying life.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Life
  • Enjoy
  • Golf

• It pleased the public to think I lived the easy, carefree life - the playboy of golf.

  

  Walter Hagen
  • Life
  • Golf
  • Easy

• Sports formed me. I was always decently skilled but lacked size, so I had to resort to using my skill versus my power. I strategically play golf because that's all I can do. It's the same on the basketball court. I try to get open and shoot it. Or I use the open space on the soccer field.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Power
  • Me
  • Space

• Golf is my boyfriend right now.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Right
  • Golf
  • Now

• And the wind shall say: 'Here were decent godless people: Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.'

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • People
  • Lost
  • Road

• Women in pro-ams are always telling me about all the business deals they've struck on the golf course playing with their male work colleagues.

  

  Paula Creamer
  • Work
  • Women
  • Business

• Practice, work out, proper nutrition, lots of work on my short game. In golf, that's really where the strokes come off the scorecard.

  

  Paula Creamer
  • Work
  • Game
  • Practice

• I'm not a huge shopper. I love looking good - obviously, on the golf course I like looking sharp, that's for sure. I'm just not into knowing brands.

  

  Lexi Thompson
  • Good
  • Golf

• The golf facet of my life doesn't go with the rest of my life, which is a rough-and-tumble life. I work in real estate development, which is the toughest business, and I do it in the toughest city. I deal with ruthless people.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Since I was a small boy, I was always around the game. I don't play golf much myself, but I love watching it. My father has played golf all his life.

  

  Bill Paxton
  • Life
  • Father
  • Game

• I invite a lot of my friends to some of the performances that I do locally, and some of them know that I'm involved with music, but they're not quite sure how. And so it's kind of fun to play golf with a lot of my friends and then invite them to hear me sing once in a while.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Fun

• In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.

  

  Maurice Greene
  • Up
  • America
  • Football

• It strikes me that golf's great virtue is that it gets you out of the house, away from everyday bothers, away from the endless round of looking for this, that and the other.

  

  Craig Brown
  • Great
  • House
  • Golf

• We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if he was wrong, they'd go back to the Urals and fight. They'd never surrender.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Never
  • Fight
  • Determined

• I am a Republican because the United States is a republic, and the views we hold represent the foundation our country was built on so many years ago.

  

  Maidie Norman
  • Country
  • Foundation
  • Republican

• We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.

  

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  • Children
  • Free
  • Fear

• I would like to deny all allegations by Bob Hope that during my last game of golf, I hit an eagle, a birdie, an elk and a moose.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Golf
  • Allegations
  • Moose