Jim Nantz Quotes

My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out.

St. Andrews by far is my favorite golf course in the world. It's where the game all started, it's why we have 18 holes instead of 22 and I think the history behind St. Andrews is amazing. There is no other golf course in the world that can say that every great player who has ever played the game has played that golf course.

In China, we had some buildings that looked like the White House or wine bottles. All they seemed to represent was bad taste.

I believe history and tradition is something solid and something we can rest on. I am not crazy about putting new spices in chocolate.

Few realise that English poetry is rather like the British constitution, surrounded by pompous precedents and reverences.

I love America. I wanted to play golf.

Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.

That was a great game of golf, fellers.

I realize that's why we play golf, to hit the ball into the hole. But it is a strange feeling when you hit the shot and it actually goes in.

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course

For most baseball fans, maybe oldest is always best. We love baseball because it seizes and retains the past, like the snowy village inside a glass paperweight.

This is the ancient land, where wisdom made its home before it went into any other country... Here is the same India whose soil has been trodden by the feet of the greatest sages that ever lived... Look back, therefore, as far as you can, drink deep of the eternal fountains that are behind, and after that look forward, march forward, and make India brighter, greater, much higher, than she ever was.

The woods are full of long drivers.

Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.

I should think it takes a fairly low intellect to draw pleasure from the following activity: hitting a ball with a crooked stick. and then walking after it! An then ..hitting it again!

I've always tried to play golf with a golf club. I have a hard time driving with my rifle. I mean, 18 is really narrow ... I have no problem with the course, except for the tee shot on 18.

Golf is the art of driving hard, avoiding the rough, surmounting traps and hazards, aiming straight, and arriving on the green at last, only to end up in a hole in the ground before your companions. The favored pastime of businessmen and their cronies, probably without a full appreciation of its metaphorical implications.

Indian people are relics; we do not exist in the present.

It was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.

Golf is an arrogant, elitist game that takes up entirely too much space in this country.

Golf: The most ... perfect expression of National Stupidity.

From its earliest beginnings, golf has been a gentleman's game - to be played as much for the sake of the game as for the contest.

It was a morning when all nature shouted Fore! The breeze, as it blew gently up from the valley, seemed to bring a message of hope and cheer, whispering of chip shots holed and brassies landing squarely on the meat. The fairway, as yet unscarred by the irons of a hundred dubs, smiled greenly up at the azure sky.

[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization.

Cypress Point is such a beautiful place, but it's also very exclusive. They had a very successful membership drive last month. They drove out forty members.