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Painting is like Golf, the fewer the strokes I take, the better the picture.

Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf

Pebble Beach is Alcatraz with grass.

Pebble is a piece of sacred ground. They say it's the greatest meeting of land and water in the world. This course was heaven designed - just the way it fits on the land.

People always say golfers don't smile. But there is so much psychology in golf so we have to be a bit robotic.

People are going to paying attention to him whether they love him or hate him. So I think Tiger is a huge focus point on a stage that is as little as golf.

People are more likely to help other people who look exactly like them. They will hang out at the bar and on the golf course with them.

People have kind of latched on with my personality and how I play golf and how I carry myself. It seems like every town we go to, I'm experiencing newer things with these types of fans.

People like Donald Trump can take all the money that's made from a TV show, from selling neckties made in China, running golf courses, and wipe out that income for tax purposes with depreciation. Only a narrow segment of people qualify for this.

People started coining the phrase, 'Bubba Golf,' whatever you want to call it, which I like. 'Bubba Golf' is going to be fun. I mean, why do what everybody else does? That's boring.

People who watch their weight, golf scores, and fuel bills seem to shun quantitative evaluation of their investment management skills although it involves the most important client in the world-themselves.

Perhaps the most important thing I can tell you about equipment is to experiment and keep an open mind.

Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.

Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club.

Playing golf is like raising children. You keep thinking you'll do better next time.

Playing from deep grass is a fact of life in professional golf.

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

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

Playing Augusta is like playing a Salvador Dali landscape. I expected a clock to fall out of the trees and hit me in the face.

Playing golf is not hot work. Cutting sugar cane for a dollar a day - that's hot work. Hotter than my first wrist watch.

Playing with your spouse on the golf course runs almost as great a marital risk as getting caught playing with someone else's anywhere else.

"Play it as it lies" is one of the fundamental dictates of golf

Playing golf is like going to a strip joint. After 18 holes you are tired and most of your balls are missing.

Practice puts brains in your muscles.

Practice, work out, proper nutrition, lots of work on my short game. In golf, that's really where the strokes come off the scorecard.

President Clinton and President Obama played a round of golf over the weekend. President Clinton asked Obama what his handicap was, and Obama said, 'Joe Biden.'

Prayer never works for me on the golf course. That may have something to do with my being a terrible putter.

President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes.

President Obama and his family are spending the holidays in Hawaii, and while they're gone, they got a fence jumper to house sit. Tomorrow, he will be in Hawaii playing golf with Raul Castro and the Pope.

President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner played golf this weekend. Obama’s handicap is Joe Biden.

Pretty it's pretty good for me because I'm over here in the winters. It's really improved my golf game.

President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner have agreed to play a round of golf together. Imagine the two of them at the end of that golf game? Boehner will be crying over his score and Obama will be giving three explanations as to why his score is actually better than it appears.

Prior to that I produced a couple of TV movies for CBS, but the truth of the matter is that I burned out for a couple of years. I didn't do anything for a while, apart from taking up golf, for which I got a four handicap.

Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.

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

Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money.

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

Putting isn't golf, greens should be treated almost the same as water hazards: you land on them, then add two strokes to your score.

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.

Regardless of what the tour pros think, golf is a rich and varied game, and what all of us awkward fools do on weekends is what golf is truly all about.

Remember the basic rule. Make friends with your caddie and the game will make friends with you. How true this is. It is easy to arrange that your guest opponent shall be deceived in to undertipping his caddie at the end of the morning round, so that the news gets round among the club employees that your opponent is a no good, and the boys will gang up against him.

Remember you have to be comfortable. Golf is not a life or death situation. It's just a game and should be treated as such. Stay loose.

Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemeteries.

Rhythm is best expressed in any swing directed at a cigar stump or a dandelion head.

Rail-splitting produced an immortal president in Lincoln, but golf hasn't produced even a good Congressman.

Really in all my years on Tour, in the U.S. Open I probably played great golf in two of them, out of maybe 20, so it's a lot of work.

Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?

Retire to what? I already play golf and fish for a living.

Rhythm and timing are the two things which we all must have, yet no one knows how to teach either.

Ron Syriac, a golf writer and friend, was quoted as saying, "Annika is no longer a female golfer. She's a golfer." That's truly all I ever aspired to be.