Golf Quotes
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I spent a weekend in the White House with President Clinton, back in '99, I guess. We played golf and just hung out and talked on many subjects. I saw him several times subsequently in L.A. He's the smartest man I ever met, a great politician. Everybody was star struck around him.
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Nothing dissects a man in public quite like golf.
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I thought I would just become a pro at a golf course.
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Faith sir! She looks like the Old Course.
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Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.
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Golf challenges you mentally at any age, and when you become my age, it's a challenge physically to try to make your game work as well as it ever did. That's close to impossible, but that doesn't keep you from trying to hit the ball where you used to hit it and make the putts you used to make all the time.
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The terrible beauty is that in the brotherhood of golf we are all the same - certifiable.
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Scott Medlock's portrait of 'the shot heard around the world' from the 1935 Masters is still being celebrated as a moment in Golf History. Imagine that!
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When you're in your young 20s, you know you can play good golf into your mid-40s. That's a lot of time to get better each and every year and achieve your goals. As long as you know you're making strides along the way, you'll get there eventually.
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It was cool for a couple of weeks, but how much bad golf can you play?
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A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.
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Acting is like golf: analysis leads to paralysis.
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The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.
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Feel is the most perplexing part of golf, and probably the most important.
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I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it.
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My mom started an air-freight company; my grandmother built a golf course. I have a certain degree of entrepreneurial risk-taking in my family history. Maybe that eventually rubbed off on me a little bit.
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Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
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You could have all the tools in the world, but if you really don't want to be there, or if there's something that's off course that's playing on your mind... the game of golf is so mental, and if you don't have everything in the right order, it's very difficult to win golf tournaments.
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Family comes first, and golf is second.
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There were some summers when every boy in Ayrshire seemed to be playing golf, and my dad taught me. But he was a terrible teacher - of everything. Learning to drive with him almost killed me. He was the world's most impatient man - awful short fuse.
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A golf course is nothing but a pool room moved outdoors.
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I'm a golf junkie. I watch every tournament pretty much. I watch interviews. I watch warm-up routines. All that stuff.
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I watch golf, just looking at the pros, and I'm in awe of how they play. Not one particular player - maybe all the players.
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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.
