Harry Vardon Quotes

Golf has always been a part of my life. My parents have footage of me in a walker swinging a plastic club. If I didn't play golf, I would have been a baseball player. I could sit and watch baseball all day.

Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.

I like going there for golf. America's one vast golf course these days.

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

If I go out one night, I must stay in the next. It's the same with my golf. If I play one day, I don't play the next. I try to pace myself.

I play golf - badly.

I'm still no good at ball-and-stick games. If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke.

I played a lot of other sports at school and just one day the golf bug bit me and I started playing serious golf from when I was ten years old.

I enjoy now doing what I do... playing golf, relaxing a little, enjoying life.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Moderation is never something I've been good at.

I like to play golf. I like to shoot hoops.

Family comes first, and golf is second.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

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.

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

I can't do anything in moderation.

I grew up playing hockey and baseball, so I wish I had time to get back into it, but living in L.A. and North Carolina, you have to take advantage of the golf.

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

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

Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.

I'm an avid golfer.

Allow yourself a few parties, but be mindful the rest of the time.