"I am what I am. I love golf, I love my life, I love my family and friends."
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"A lot of celebrities golf because they want to be away. For them it's a chance to get away and be peaceful. For me it's peaceful to ride [cycling]."
"If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only poetical exaggeration applied to any hobbit, even to Old Took's great-granduncle Bullroarer, who was so huge (for a hobbit) that he could ride a horse. He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their king Golfibul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-hole, and in this way the battle was won and the game of Golf was invented at the same moment."
"Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net."
"I'm the best. I just haven't played yet."
"Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses..."
"It is today an accepted principle of golfing architecture that the tiger should be teased and trapped and tested, while the rabbit should be left to peace, since he can make his own hell for himself."
"I never pray on a golf course. Actually, the Lord answers my prayers everywhere except on the course."
"In my day we simply didn't believe that it was possible to play as well as these young fellows do. We thought that strength denied touch and that you could not consistently hit the ball both long and straight. It's been proven that you can."
"Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness."
"Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture."
"Golf will grow so long as it’s fun."
"The person I fear most in the last two rounds is myself."
"Playing golf is like going to a strip joint. After 18 holes you are tired and most of your balls are missing."
"Be who you really are."
"I always think under par. You have to believe in yourself."
"My golf-loving friend Bob Hope asked me what my handicap was, so I told him - the Congress."
"I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can."
"Show me a man with a great golf game, and I’ll show you a man who has been neglecting something."
"The dollars aren't so important... once you have them."