Crieff Golf Quotes

Sports formed me. I was always decently skilled but lacked size, so I had to resort to using my skill versus my power. I strategically play golf because that's all I can do. It's the same on the basketball court. I try to get open and shoot it. Or I use the open space on the soccer field. ~ Zach Johnson

Golf is a game in which you yell 'Fore!', shoot six, and write down five. ~ Will Harvey

Titleist has offered me a big contract not to play its balls. ~ Bob Hope

There is absolutely nothing humorous at the Masters. Here, small dogs do not bark and babies do not cry. ~ Gary Player

I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. ~ Zach Johnson

I've had a lot of majors where I didn't play well until the last round. Keep yourself in contention; that's the name of the game. I usually ended up shooting a good round and all of a sudden, somehow, I won. ~ Jack Nicklaus

I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands. ~ Harbhajan Singh

I know bugger all about golf. ~ Charlotte Church

I don't fear death, but I sure don't like those three-footers for par. ~ Chi Chi Rodriguez

If he truly wanted me to let everything go, I'd flip over and ride him right there on the range. Screw golf, I'd screw him instead. ~ Karina Halle

I sort of play golf because a lot of my friends are into it, but I'm awful - my handicap is about six or seven thousand. ~ Dennis Lehane

I had played in a tournament with the captain of the University of Minnesota's golf team, and he thought I was good. He called his coach, and the coach called me and recruited me. A five-minute phone call changed my life. ~ Tom Lehman

Plausible that a professional pitcher with some time to practice could throw a golf ball faster than a baseball. ~ Randall Munroe

I love America. I wanted to play golf. ~ Arnold Palmer

In the United States, I'm lucky; in Europe, I'm good. ~ Seve Ballesteros

Golf is social. It brings a lot of people together. ~ Mia Hamm

If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower. ~ Dan Jenkins

Golf sits in that beautiful junction between perfection and frustration. ~ Colleen Ferrary Bader

Well, I'm glad we don't have to play in the shade. ~ Bobby Jones

I hadn't thought that women were particularly dangerous golfers. Could that be the reason that the Augusta National Golf club refuses to take down its 'No Women Allowed' sign? ~ Madeleine M. Kunin

I don't believe in luck. Not in golf, anyway. There are good bounces and bad bounces, sure, but the ball is round and so is the hole. If you find yourself in a position where you hope for luck to pull you through, you're in serious trouble. ~ Jack Nicklaus

The hardest shot in golf is a mashie at 90 yards from the green, where the ball has to be played against an oak tree, bounces back into a sandtrap, hits a stone, bounces on the green and then rolls into the cup. That shot is so difficult I have made it only once. ~ Zeppo Marx

You go to work, tape five shows in one day and then go home and play golf for the rest of the week and then start the week all over. I thought if something like that came along, I'd love to do that. ~ Wink Martindale

It provides a different type of element and mental strain athletes love. That's what makes the game of golf so special. ~ Tiger Woods

It's the most humbling sport ever. It's like a lousy lover. It's like some guy who's never there when you need him. Every once in a while, he comes and makes you feel like heaven on earth.. And then the moment you say, 'I really need this,' he's gone. ~ Dinah Shore

The difficulty is, all swing thoughts decay, like radium. What burnt up the course on Wednesday has turned to lead on Sunday. Yet it does not do to have a blank mind: the terrible hugeness of the course will rush into the vacuum and the ball will spray like a thing berserk. ~ John Updike

That "I don't give a darn" attitude is probably why I've shot so many good final rounds over the years when I started the day a few shots behind with nothing to lose ... and maybe that's why I've shot so many bad last rounds when I was ahead and knew I couldn't afford a mistake. ~ Jack Nicklaus

We put suffocation warnings on all the - on every piece of plastic film manufactured in the United States or for sale with an item in the United States. We put warnings on coffee cups to tell us that the contents may be hot. And we seem to think that any item sharper than a golf ball is too sharp for children under the age of 10. ~ Gever Tulley

Golf's a great game, and you meet a lot of people along the way. ~ Matt Kuchar

There are interesting times. The game is more fun when you are experimenting. One day yuor great, the next day scatterlog. But your learning. No that's not right. I probably have forgotten more about golf than I will ever learn. What you do is remember some of the things you thought you would never forget. ~ Jack Nicklaus

I'm not the most charismatic, maybe emotional, fun-packed individual on the golf course; I get that. ~ Zach Johnson

I don't see myself playing or adjusting my schedule for senior tournament golf. ~ Greg Norman

If the wind is in your face, you swing too hard just to get the ball through it; if the wind is at your back, you swing too hard just to see how far you can get the ball to go. ~ Henry Beard

Little Bobby Jones of Atlanta is really a fine player, and shows every indication of becoming a tremendous great one, once he is master of himself, which must come with maturity. ~ A. W. Tillinghast

Sometimes I lie awake ay night, and I wonder, "is life like golf or is it more like baseball?" Then a voice comes to me out of the dark that says, "try shuffleboard. ~ Charles M. Schulz

I always think under par. You have to believe in yourself. ~ Sergio Garcia

On one hole, I hit an alligator so hard, he's now my golf bag. ~ Bob Hope

And yet that performance has a method. Trump's artlessness, like Mark Antony's, is only apparent. Listen, for example, as he performs one of his favorite riffs. He begins by saying something critical of Mexicans and Chinese. Then he turns around and says, 'I love the Mexican and Chinese people, especially the rich ones who buy my apartments or stay at my hotels or play on my golf courses.' It's their leaders I criticize, he explains, but then in a millisecond he pulls the sting from the criticism: 'they are smarter and stronger than our leaders; they're beating us.' And then the payoff all this has been leading up to, the making explicit of what has been implied all along. 'If I can sell them condominiums, rent space to them in my building at my price, and outfox them in deals, I could certainly outmaneuver them when it came to trade negotiations and immigration.' (And besides, they love me.)

Here is the real message, the message that makes sense of the disparate pieces of what looks like mere disjointed fumbling: I am Donald Trump; nobody owns me. I don't pander to you. I don't pretend to be nice and polite; I am rich and that's what you would like to be; I'm a winner; I beat people at their own game, and if you vote for me I will beat our adversaries; if you want wonky policy details, go with those losers who offer you ten-point plans; if you want to feel good about yourselves and your country, stick with me.

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I think golf can be one of those places where we act and we hope that people act as we would like them to act all the time. ~ Condoleezza Rice

I had good skills, but my lack of size and speed kept me a little behind the best kids in the other sports. Golf offered a more level field. I would have rather played other sports, but golf picked me. ~ Zach Johnson

We're going to live longer than our parents' generation, and there comes a point when you ask yourself, 'What am I going do?' You can only play so much golf. ~ Jane Pauley

This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle. ~ Inbee Park

Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf. ~ Ben Hogan

I started when I was three, and on some courses they wouldn't let me play because they said I was too little. They wouldn't accept that a child could play. So my parents had to argue at times with some people at golf courses so I could. ~ Matteo Manassero

The other day I broke 70. That's a lot of clubs. ~ Henny Youngman

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course. ~ A.A. Milne

Golf is based on honesty, where else would you admit to a seven on a par three? ~ Jimmy Demaret