Scatman Crothers Quotes

I have been an avid reader of 'Golf Digest' ever since I started playing this great game.

I used to read every golf magazine front to back; I was addicted to Golf Channel, read Rotella, read every golf book.

My parents both played golf and introduced me to golf when I was 5 years old. They took me to the driving range and I played around at the range and immediately developed an interest in it.

I found golf late in life, in 1990. I took some lessons and struggled. Then one day, I hit a drive that was so crisp and clean, with no vibration. There's no feeling like it. I was hooked.

I watch golf on television, although I don't golf - except for visits to the driving range in spurts.

I adore the game of golf. I won't ever retire.

My grandpa was the one; he started taking up golf when I was about two and introduced me to the game as far as just taking me to the driving range where I grew up playing. That was really all he had to do was let me hit a golf ball and kind of fell in love with it from there. He didn't really have to teach me a whole lot or anything.

I've never played golf with Tiger Woods. To tell the truth, I'm not sure that watching him pound it 100 yards past me all day is something I'd like to do.

I was never interested in golf until someone brought up the Get Golf Ready program to me.

I got off the school bus every day at the driving range. I'd hit balls and goof around all day out there. I picked up balls by hand every night. That was my job.

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.

I didn't know much about golf growing up.

I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can.

For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.

The only way to enjoy golf is to be a masochist. Go out and beat yourself to death.

I've been around golf my whole life. My father did it all the time, and I resented him for it. But a couple years ago I picked up a golf club and I understood the physics of it. If anyone knows anything about golf, it's that once you hit a few shots, you'll become addicted.

I started playing golf when I was a kid, because across the street from where we lived there was a little nine-hole golf course where my father worked.

One of my great loves is golf. When I am in L.A., I like to play with a few close friends: no phones, no distractions, the great outdoors and the chance to bet some money to keep it interesting.

I know bugger all about golf.

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.

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.

I've spent more time playing golf than anything else the last 18 years. Just wanted to be an 80s-shooter. Got there, too.

You know the way I play golf, it's a good I do these things for charities.

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.

But we do have a golf course near by and I play fairly regularly.