Golf Quotes

Golf has become so manicured, so perfect. The greens, the fairways. I don't like golf carts. I like walking. Some clubs won't let you in unless you have a caddy and a cart.

They talk about Amen Corner but there's so much more to it than what meets the eye on this golf course.

I still play hockey every now and then, and I still golf. But my biggest exercise is walking my big dog in the park every day.

When I was a little girl in Savannah playing, there were never enough hours in the day or holes on the golf course. I just loved the game so much.

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.

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.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

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?

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.

I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it.

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