Brechtel Golf Quotes

The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top. ~ Pete Dye

Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty. ~ Harry Vardon

I learn my lines while on the golf course. I try to do two or three things at once. I have ideas for books all the time, I have ideas for paintings all the time, and I write them all down. I take my sketchpad and my iPad, which I design on, and I do sit down and do specific tasks at specific times. ~ Jane Seymour

I don't play golf. Mark Twain is golf to me. ~ Hal Holbrook

Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets. ~ Camilo Villegas

Golf courses sell real estate and that's why they're built. ~ Ed McMahon

Why am I using a new putter? Because the last one didn't float too well. ~ Craig Stadler

If you are really serious about playing golf and playing good golf, stick to the basic fundamentals. Sure, there's going to be a little change here and a change there, but you don't want to make them. You want to stick to the things that you started with, and you learned, and you know how to apply them. ~ Arnold Palmer

Never break your putter and your driver in the same round or you're dead. ~ Tommy Bolt

I play golf for a living. I'm grateful for that. It's a beautiful game, provides a great opportunity. ~ Zach Johnson

You just can't say lesbianism hurts women's golf. It's more correct to say homophobia does. ~ Donna Lopiano

Where I play, the greens always break toward the bar. ~ George Gobel

My caddie 'Stovepipe' tried to talk me into hitting a 3-wood. But I took out the turf rider (4-wood) instead. The moment I hit it, I felt something in my bones. Walter Hagen was playing with me and Bobby Jones was on the green. 21 people were behind the green. The sun was going down. I wasn't sure it had gone in the hole until I saw all 21 people jumping up and down. ~ Gene Sarazen

The worst advice in golf is, 'Keep your head down.' ~ Patty Sheehan

There's more to be learned here [St. Andrews] about course design than anywhere. Collection bunkers, false fronts, bump shots. The fundamentals of design became fundamental because of what's here. And it happened accidentally. Or maybe accidentally on purpose. ~ Jack Nicklaus

I enjoy the oohs! and aahs! from the gallery when I hit my drives. But I'm getting pretty tired of the awws! and uhhs! when I miss the putt. ~ John Daly

I think if you are going to base your whole life on what you do on the golf course, you are up for a lot of ups and downs. ~ Tom Lehman

Here Eddie, hold the flag while I putt out. ~ Walter Hagen

A guy in Pennsylvania was arrested because he was drunk in his golf cart going from bar to bar. So they arrested him. I said: Wait a minute. Isn't that golf? ~ David Letterman

I can't see anyone coming out, because the players feel it is no one's business. We all stick together. We're a very tight group. It would be too hard for just one person to do, too stressful. And why should it make a difference? The LPGA is about golf. ~ Hollis Stacy

One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green. ~ John Gunther

I'm helpless in post-round, hole-by-hole interviews. I can't take you through most of the holes of winning the Players Championship, the U.S. Amateur or Ryder Cup matches. It's like golf amnesia. ~ Matt Kuchar

Let the machine take care of the machines, and I'll go spend more time with my family, or golf. ~ Mark Goddard

I would like to attract more minorities into the game. But it's extremely important that this golf look like - that golf look like America. ~ Condoleezza Rice

I don't like the glamour. I just like the game. ~ Ben Hogan

Golf's three ugliest words: still your shot. ~ Dave Marr

The Japanese eat, sleep, and breathe golf; the only thing they don't do is actually play it, because to get on a course, you have to make a reservation roughly 137 years in advance, which means that by the time you actually get to the first tee you are deceased. Of course, in golf this is not really a handicap. ~ Dave Barry

Locker rooms and grill rooms are still the best places to find out things you don't know - at the Masters or any other golf tournament. ~ Dan Jenkins

I am tired of all these golfers who are happy with second place. The only one who will like you if you come in second place is your wife and your dog. And that is only if you have a good wife and a good dog. ~ Gary Player

It's like living at an airshow, unless you have something against airplanes, golf, guns, motorcycles, nice cars or drinking. ~ Brian R. Norris

The great Jack Nicklaus summed things up neatly during a charity match on the Old Course at St. Andrews where he and I were playing against Ben Crenshaw and Glen Campbell. I asked him what he considered to be the most important factor to overcome in the game of golf. His reply, "It's an unfair game." ~ Sean Connery

This fitness thing is blown out of proportion. What am I going to do on a treadmill - smoke a cigarette and drink a diet Coke? ~ John Daly

Golf is a game, and games are meant to be enjoyed. ~ Raymond Floyd

God said to Faldo, as He once said to Nicklaus, "You will have the skills like no other." Then he whispered to Ballesteros, as he whispered to Palmer, "But they will love you more." ~ Tom Callahan

Golf is flexibility, and I notice more guys injured. You can overdo this conditioning. ~ Retief Goosen

I don't play golf. I have more fun singing and dancing. ~ Dick Van Dyke

I don't believe there is anything like a natural golf swing. A golf swing is an unnatural thing, and it has to be developed. ~ Ben Hogan

The Internet is a game changer. I'm hopeful I can make a contribution by providing a way to learn about the game of golf free of charge. ~ Hollis Stacy