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For sure, with golf it's not a physically demanding sport like tennis. That's what makes tennis great - you combine both things. It's a very mental sport and at the same time can be dramatically physical. But I do admire the mentality of sport more than the physicality because physical performance is much easier to practice than mental performance.

Forty-one rules aren't so many - St. Benedict had 73 to keep the brethren on the straight and narrow.

Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It's agriculture. It's golf courses. It's domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf.

For years, I never thought I needed a short game. Finally I just decided to do something about it. I needed to get up and down from tough spots on the par-5s for my birdies. So I went to Phil [Rogers]. He's the best. For the last couple weeks, Phil has been staying at my house and we've been practicing in the evening.

Fox News reported Thursday that Bill Clinton can't get into any of New York's better golf and country clubs. Not one member has been willing to sponsor him. So it's official, he really is America's first black president.

From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.

From the beginning it was drilled into me that a golf course was a place where character fully reveals itself -- both its strengths and its flaws. As a result, I learned early not only to fix my ball marks but also to congratulate an opponent on a good shot, avoid walking ahead of a player preparing to shoot, remain perfectly still when someone else was playing, and a score of other small courtesies that revealed, in my father's mind, one's abiding respect for the game.

George W. Bush loves golf because it's like the election--low score wins.

Germany needs to have a handicap, like in golf. They ought to start each match with two goals in advance to their opposition.

Gerry Ford is easy to spot on the course. He drives the cart with the red cross painted on top.

G is for Green, that's constructed to roll in every direction away from the hole.

Give me a man with big hands and big feet and no brains and I'll make a golfer out of him.

Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.

Goaltending is to hockey like putting is to golf. It really has no relationship to the rest of the game.

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.

Golf and dating don't mix.

Golf and women are a lot alike. You know you are not going to wind up with anything but grief, but you can't resist the impulse.

Golf - a young man's vice and an old man's penance.

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.

Golf has made me and shaped me into the person I am here today.

Golf is a game of coordination, rhythm, and grace; women have these to a high degree.

Golf is a game of misses, and the winners are those who have the best misses

Golf is a game to be played between cricket and death.

Golf is a great way for someone to learn discipline, responsibility and sportsmanship.?

Golf is a lot like life. When you make a decision, stick with it.

Golf is a nice game, but that's all. It's never going to be an exciting game to watch on TV. It's not a circus and never will be one. The audience for golf is not going to change significantly. It's always going to be people who play it, understand it, and love it.

Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.

Golf is a stupid game. You tee up this little ball, really this tiny ball. Then you hit it, try to find it, hit it. And the goal is to get it into a little hole placed in a hard spot.

Golf is a thinking man's game. You can have all the shots in the bag, but if you don't know what to do with them, you've got troubles.

Golf is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well and a grown man can never master it. It is almost a science, yet it is a puzzle with no answer.

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

Golf is good, it means I get some fresh air and exercise, take my mind off work and see some of the landscape of the place I'm visiting.

Golf is like a razor. You get just so sharp and then it begins to dull a little more the more you use it.

Golf is like love. One day you think you are too old and the next day you want to do it again.

Golf is meaningless, but it means so much.

Golf is not about the quality of your good shots, it is about the quality of your bad shots.

Golf is not a game of great shots. It's a game of most accurate misses. The people who win make the smallest mistakes.

Golf is not a wrestle with Bogey; it is not a struggle with your mortal foe; it is a physiological, psychological and moral fight with your self; it is a test of mastery over self; and the ultimate and irreducible element of the game is to determine which of the players is the more worthy combatant.

Golf is played with a number of striking implements more intricate in shape than those used in any form of recreation except dentistry.

Golf is the art of driving hard, avoiding the rough, surmounting traps and hazards, aiming straight, and arriving on the green at last, only to end up in a hole in the ground before your companions. The favored pastime of businessmen and their cronies, probably without a full appreciation of its metaphorical implications.

Golf is the only game where the worst player gets the best of it. He obtains more out of it as regards both exercise and enjoyment, for the good player gets worried over the slightest mistake, whereas the poor player makes too many mistakes to worry about them.

Golf is the ultimate avoidance activity for the dysfunctional dad. A game so nonsensically difficult, so pointless, so irrationally time consuming, the word golf itself can only stand for ‘Get Out, Leave Family.’

Golf made me feel like a loser. So I dismissed it.

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.

Golf requires only a few simple Rules and Regulations to guide the players in the true nature of its sporting appeal. The spirit of the game is its own referee.

Golf's Holy Grail - a genius course.

Golf's three ugliest words: still your shot.

Golf took young kids like Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan and myself out of the caddie ranks and gave us money and a little bit of fame and let us live in the tall cotton.

Golf was my first glimpse of comedy. I was a caddy when I was a kid. I was on the golf course rather than being in lessons, but I can play better now than I could then.