Cathy Engelbert Quotes

In golf, it's almost impossible to be perfect on each shot; that's the fun and challenge of golf.

Playing golf is like learning a foreign language.

I never played a round when I didn't learn something new about the game.

My grandson Sam Saunders has been playing golf since he could hold a club and I spent a lot of time with him over the years. Like my father taught me, I showed him the fundamentals of the game and helped him make adjustments as he and his game matured over the years.

Golf is not easy.

Golf is a game of endless failure and frustration.

See, as much as I love the game, golf was my vehicle to competition. And I love to compete.

Whenever I dream of playing a perfect round of golf, which I rarely do more than a dozen times a day, I picture myself on one of my favorite British Open-style links, and in particular the great courses of the west of Ireland, whose holes flow through naturally bunkered dunesland never far from the sight or sound of surf.

I started playing in '98, but I got hooked by playing celebrity golf tournaments. Tiger had a lot to do with it - his passion, the way that he plays. He's unique and different, and he inspired a lot of my passion. It's a sport you can't master. If you're an athlete, you can do almost anything, but golf is not like that.

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

I want to keep playing good golf.

Athletes love challenges, and golf is something you can never master.

Golf is a whole different sport, a whole different challenge, everything.

I was a pretty average golfer.

I play golf but very badly.

I didn't really get into golf until I was about 14. My mom and dad were taking lessons from a pro an hour and a half from our farm in Cohuna, Australia. When they got home, I'd ask my mom to explain everything they learned - drills and all.

When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125.

Golf is a weird sport. Some days you got it. Some days you don't.

I always thought of myself as some sort of athlete until I started playing golf a couple years ago.

I think when I was about 12 or 13, my dad started taking me out to the local golf course, and that's the first time I ever hit a golf ball. I picked it up pretty quickly, just kind of monkey-see, monkey-do. But when I was 12, golf was so slow to me. For me, it was basketball, girls and music.

In fantasy land, I wish I could be a pro golfer. I love golf - the most frustratingly brilliant game on the planet.

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.

Few learn golf in a lifetime.

I play golf - badly.

I hated golf when we first started, but a big part of the training process was falling in love with this sport, so I went on tour with the UCLA Team.