George Deukmejian Quotes

Golf is a weird sport. Some days you got it. Some days you don't.

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

I hate golf to be tricked up. To me it's a fun game.

I'm not the most charismatic, maybe emotional, fun-packed individual on the golf course; I get that.

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.

Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.

Golf was my vehicle to competition, and I can't play if I can't compete.

I've been playing golf as long as I've been dancing, since I was 13 or 14. I play off six. I like to get out on a golf course as often as I can.

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

See, as much as I love the game, golf was my vehicle to competition. And I love to compete.

I hated golf when we first started, but a big part of the training process was falling in love with this sport, so I went on tour with the UCLA Team.

In golf, advice is not a big thing. If you don't have the ability, you won't get anywhere no matter how much advice you get. The only thing people can suggest that matters is, be a good person and treat people respectfully. But advice on your game doesn't mean much to me.

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

As a Coalition Government, we inherited a legacy of lack of trust and confidence in political system.

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.

I myself am frustrated in just where sports are at. It's a hard thing when you're out there working every day, and you know that someone else is cheating and they may not necessarily get caught.

That's the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on.

In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.

Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?