Golf Quotes: Swinging Thoughts and Fairway Wisdom (Page 2)

"I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course"

"Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter"

"For instance, he says I let him play golf, and he says, he lets me be miserable in my job. Now - that doesn't quite sound right, does it? But nonetheless, I think for the first time in my life, I'm not going to be miserable in my life when I come and work at CNN"

Connie Chung, Journalist

"Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness"

William Wordsworth, Poet

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

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"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"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, then you're not going to believe in the golf story, you're not going to believe in the rest of the film. That's the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie's crap"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

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

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

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

P. G. Wodehouse, Writer

"To find a man's true character, play golf with him"

P. G. Wodehouse, Writer

"I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right"

Brad Pitt, Actor

"The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course"

Billy Graham, Clergyman

"You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say that I'd rather have won the U.S. Open Golf Tournament"

Sean Connery, Actor

"I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations - that's why we got married really quickly"

Sean Connery, Actor

"Exercise? I get it on the golf course. When I see my friends collapse, I run for the paramedics"

Red Skelton, Comedian

"I'm actually a very quiet person off the golf course. I talk 150 miles per hour when I'm at the course, but when in private I very seldom ever open my mouth"

Lee Trevino, Athlete

"I adore the game of golf. I won't ever retire"

Lee Trevino, Athlete

"Golf is a better game played downhill"

Jack Nicklaus, Athlete

"Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different"

John McCarthy, Politician

"I never played much golf as a kid. I caddied quite a bit but never got serious into golf until about age 15"

Lee Trevino, Athlete

"He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen"

Jack Nicklaus, Athlete

"If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman"

Shaquille O'Neal, Athlete

"I've played golf with three U.S presidents"

Lee Trevino, Athlete

"If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron"

Lee Trevino, Athlete

"Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf"

Harper Lee, Novelist

"You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course"

Jello Biafra, Musician

"I like trying to win. That's what golf is all about"

Jack Nicklaus, Athlete

"There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid"

Jack Nicklaus, Athlete

"There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks"

Jack Nicklaus, Athlete

"Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best"

Jack Nicklaus, Athlete

"It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus"

Jack Nicklaus, Athlete

"If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him"

Lou Holtz, Coach

"Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf"

Ben Hogan, Athlete

"I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games"

Ben Hogan, Athlete

"Golf is a game in which you yell "Fore!", shoot six, and write down five"

Will Harvey, Businessman

"Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake"

Sylvester Stallone, Actor

"Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing"

Ben Hogan, Athlete

"I wore that same shirt yesterday playing golf. There goes the Nike account"

Leslie Nielsen, Actor

"Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor"

Martin Sheen, Actor

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