"I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting"

"In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to"

"Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet"

"Tiger is the greatest thing that's happened to the tour in a long time. He has brought incredible attention to golf at a time of year when football and the World Series always take precedence. Everything I've heard about him seems to be true"

"The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law"

"It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf"

"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"

"I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles"

"The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf"

"I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made - my swing is pretty hot"

"I hated golf when we first started, but a big part of the training process was falling in love with this sport, so I went on tour with the UCLA Team"