Robert Benchley Quotes

The first time I played golf was in Flushing Meadows, Queens, when I was about 16 or 17. They had an 18-hole pitch-and-putt. My buddies and I would hop the fence and sneak on and play.

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.

There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life... I like to be outdoors, I like to hunt, I like to fish, I like to play golf.

I hate golf. I do not understand how anyone can enjoy it, much less love it.

Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.

I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.

It's hard to believe a kid hitting golf balls in the cow pastures of New Mexico could have accomplished what I have accomplished.

The world is full of people who would like nothing better than to spend six hours on a golf course. I would rather be chopping shallots.

I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it.

I don't do a lot when I'm in Gascony. I swim and play the odd game of golf, but mainly I sit around. We're set an hour-and-a-half from the Pyrenees and an hour-and-a-half from the Bay of Biscay, so we get plenty of storms. But we're surrounded by vines and sunflowers - it's lovely.

No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.

In October, 1838, … I happened to read for amusement Malthus on population, and being well prepared to appreciate the struggle for existence which everywhere goes on from long continuous observation of the habits of animals and plants, it at once struck me that under these circumstances favorable variations would tend to be preserved and unfavorable ones to be destroyed. The result of this would be the formation of new species. Here, then, I had at last got a theory by which to work

Golf should be taken down and must not be played.

Outside of my family and my work, I have two passions, both instilled in me by my father: golf and fishing.

If I get a free moment, I want to get outside, play golf, go fishin'.

I've played golf since I was fourteen. I like how no two rounds are ever the same. And I get to be out in nature... and hang out with my buddies.

Since my family owns the Trump National Doral, I spend a lot of time on the course. Trump Doral's Golf Shop is the largest pro shop in the country and carries limited-edition pieces and exclusive brands.

It's a really good place for me to be, on the golf course.

I went to the driving range and hit a couple of good shots and I was hooked. Now I have six putters, including one engraved with my name.

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 like to go out on the golf course and talk, cut up, and tell jokes.

Whenever I'm stressed out or having a bad day, the one thing that gets me happy or back into like a good place of mind is being on the golf course. I love being out there, especially really early in the morning getting the first tee time out and just playing by myself. It's so peaceful.

Golf balls are sweet: dimpled and sometimes even smiling.

When it comes to the golf industry, I know that people see me as a gimmick.