Billy Casper Quotes

I never imagined any of the success I am currently experiencing.

I never thought my ideas would actually get published.

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.

I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.

I just want to make it very clear that I come from very humble beginnings, and I worked for everything!

I never thought I'd be some fashion mogul!

I started playing basketball very late, and for me to make it to the league so fast... I've always said my life is a movie.

I started in a very small tennis club in a South American country where I never thought about becoming the best tennis player.

It's been cool to have my name mentioned when people say R&B is on the comeback and I'm the leading person. If you had told me at 16 that I would be that person - you're lying.

My success happened pretty late in life. I can't even believe it happened.

I was one of those guys who wasn't supposed to make it in this league.

I literally went from the outhouse to the White House.

I have an insane desire to shave a stroke or two off my handicap.

I think it comes from the fact that we both grew up in it, and both [me and Donald Trump] saw American dream. And in our own ways, we both lived it.

This grandson of an Irish immigrant, after whom I was named, Richard Michael Cawley is my grandfather. I was right that - and I always tell kids that, you know, if my small life represents anything is that if you work hard, you study hard, and you never give up on your dreams and listen to people that care about, you can live those dreams. And for me to be up on the platform standing with my right hand in the air in the presence of my family and our new president [Donald Trump], it just tells me this is a great country. My grandfather was right.

I believe in pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. I believe it is possible — I saw this guy do it once in Cirque du Soleil. It was magical.

I am so pleased with my golf course. I am to say that it's the best I've ever seen it - without equivocation.

I had no ambitions to become an actor, whatsoever. I was just waiting for my films to get made and some friends of mine, out of the kindness of their hearts, because I was sitting around doing nothing, started casting me in small roles and the roles got bigger.

If you look at eggs, you will see that each one is almost round but not quite ... Nature's way of distinguishing eggs from large golf balls.

I am the living attestation of the American dream. I am the extolment of this great nation.

I signed my deal when I was 11, and the success I had, no one could explain that to an adult, what's about to happen to them, much less a kid. There's not many people around who've experienced that.

I've been extraordinarily successful for my age. I think for probably anyone's age, I'm very fortunate.

I was at Barcelona for many years where I won a lot of things and achieved a lot of dreams. For these reasons it holds a special place in my life.

When people say money doesn't matter, it sure as hell does when you're able to show your mother a beach house and then hand her the keys to it. That was one of the happiest moments of my life.