Golf Quotes
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Somebody made the statement that Donald Trump has built or owns the greatest collection of golf courses, ever, in the history of golf. And I believe that is 100 percent true.
Donald Trump
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You're the only one in control over your golf ball. It's not like tennis: you're hitting a shot and somebody's hitting it back at you.
Lee Westwood
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Every woman should recruit a female friend to take up golf so there will be more women available to play.
Paula Creamer
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I just enjoy playing in wind, grew up in it, and it makes the golf a bit more fun.
Louis Oosthuizen
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You figure they cheat at the ballpark, they'll cheat on the golf course, they'll cheat in business, and anything else in life. Players may laugh about it and say it's funny, but right down in their heart, they don't think it's funny at all, and they have no respect for a person who cheats.
Bob Feller
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I went to PE classes and started getting kids out there, ... They'd say, 'I've never played golf before,' and I'd say, 'I don't care.'
Cal Hubbard
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They sell these golf aids that attach to your knee and your head and are supposed to keep your swing correct. It's futile beyond belief. I've never bought any, but I could watch those ads for 24 hours straight. People with straight faces saying this thing will take strokes off your game - that's my peculiar obsession.
Christopher Guest
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More than anything else, though, to anyone who would write about it, golf offers a four-hour drama in two acts, which becomes memorable even in the tape-recorded reminiscenses of old champs, and which - in the hands of someone like Herb Wind - can become a piece of war correspondence as artfully controlled as Alan Morehead's account of Gallipoli.
Alistair Cooke
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My dad is a big dreamer, so I got that from him. Golf was my main thing when I was a teenager, and that's what I wanted to do.
Brandon Flowers
The Killers
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I never got on the course with my dad, but to be playing golf with my kids - that's a dream.
Mark Wahlberg
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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.
Amy Alcott
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You are going to hit some good shots and not get rewarded, but that's just U.S. Open golf. It's tough; it's hard.
Peter Uihlein
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The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican of golf - is of St. Andrew himself bearing the slatier cross on which, once he was captured at Patras, he was to be stretched before he was crucified.Only the Scots would have thought of celebrating a national game with the figure of a tortured saint.
Alistair Cooke
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In Hollywood, we have some of the richest unemployed people in the world. They have sun tans. Some of them have chauffeurs in Rolls-Royces waiting outside. They have their golf clubs ready in the car. There is no law that says you cannot play golf while being unemployed.
Allan Sherman
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Man has been breeding livestock for ten thousand years and has yet to come up with a monstrous sheep that can trample buildings and graze a whole golf course for breakfast.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I have a nine handicap in golf - I can always find time for a round - and I'm on my treadmill and cross-trainer every day.
Engelbert Humperdinck
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I can't bear the thought of retirement, and I haven't prepared myself for it. I don't play bridge, and I don't play golf. I do play tennis, but you can't do that every day of the week.
Mary Berry
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In my own life, I find myself doing some task - driving or playing golf - and having a conversation with my mother or father, who are both deceased. I don't know if that means I'm mentally ill, but I suspect lots of people do it. And when I hold that conversation, different images of my parents appear to me.
James Remar