Bob McNair Quotes

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 play golf - badly.

I'm a golfer not a history major.

This is a great thing, to make a living as a professional golfer, isn't it?

I have played a handful of rounds of golf with Wayne Gretzky.

Sometimes, I play a round of extremely poor golf.

Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.

I caddied for a guy who was a very good player, and he gave me a set of clubs, just a starter set: 5-iron, 7-iron, 9-iron, putter and driver. I just loved it. How I developed my swing was to just grab a club and start banging balls.

I'm an avid golfer.

Everybody wishes they were better at golf.

I don't watch much golf.

I play golf but very badly.

I sort of play golf because a lot of my friends are into it, but I'm awful - my handicap is about six or seven thousand.

I'm just going to go out and play. At the end of the day, you are still hitting a little white ball with your clubs.

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

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

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

The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.

I played golf all over Detroit.

I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.

Way, way, way back I played a little bit, but I am definitely not a golfer. You know, it just takes too much time anyway during the course of the day.

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

I probably have a club in my hands 360 days a year, one way or another, playing with friends or just fiddling around or hitting balls.

I'm just more into playing golf. It's a great thing.

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.