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For one thing, I like to walk when I play golf. Now I don't walk the whole way, but I try not to be the driver when in a cart.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Going to the golf course every day for work? That's a good job.

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

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

Golf gives no margin: either you win or you fail. You cannot hedge; you cannot bluff; you cannot give a stop order. One chance is given you, and you hit or miss. There is nothing more rigid in life. And it is this ultra and extreme rigidity that makes golf so intensely interesting.

Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.

Golf is a game, and talk and discussion is all to the interests of the game. Anything that keeps the game alive and prevents us being bored with it is an advantage. Anything that makes us think about it, talk about it, and dream about it is all to the good and prevents the game becoming dead.

Golf is a game of endless failure and frustration.

Golf is a game of precision, not strength.

Golf is a lot like sex. It's something you can enjoy all your life. And if you remain an amateur, you get to pick your own playing partners.

Golf is an indispensable adjunct to high civilisation.

Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.

[Golf]is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well, and a grown man can never master it. Any single round of it is full of unexpected triumphs and perfect shots that end in disaster. It is almost a science, yet it is a puzzle without an answer. It is gratifying and tantalizing, precise and unpredictable. It requires complete concentration and total relaxation. It satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time, rewarding and maddening. And it is without doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.

Golf is growing, and there are more good young players, but you don't see them going abroad. It's so expensive to travel.

Golf is like 99.9 percent of my life, and then there's school. I don't get much time to go out with my friends.

Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.

Golf is my boyfriend right now.

Golf is not a good walk spoiled. It is becoming a good walk prohibited. Show me the common sense in this and I promise I will relent. But there is no common sense at all in the prohibition of walking.

Golf is played with the arms.

Golf is supposed to be fun, but I don't think anything is fun if you're not doing it reasonably well.

Golf is to me what his Sabine farm was to the poet Horace - a solace and an inspiration.

Golf may be a hussy, but I love her.

Golf: The most ... perfect expression of National Stupidity.

Golf courses are becoming far too long. Twenty years ago we played three rounds of golf a day and considered we had taken an interminably long time if we took more than two hours to play a round. Today it not infrequently takes over three hours.

[Golfers] are a special kind of moral realist who nips the normal romantic and idealistic yearnings in the bud by proving once or twice a week that life is unconquerable but endurable.

Golf has too much walking to be a good game, and just enough game to spoil a good walk.

Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.

Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.

Golf is a bloodless sport-if you don't count ulcers.

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

Golf is a game where white men can dress up as black pimps and get away with it.

Golf is all about patience - one tournament is four days long, 18 holes a day.

Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic.

Golf is a passion that will stay with me forever. That's all I know.

Golf is difficult to get your personality over because you are such a bottle of concentration.