Tony Lema Quotes

For me, 'choking' is just another term in golf.

For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.

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

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

Golf is a very, very frustrating game.

Whenever I have any spare time I have a game of golf.

In golf, it's almost impossible to be perfect on each shot; that's the fun and challenge of golf.

Golf is a better game played downhill.

The recreational golfer who gives it careful thought will conclude that the favorite golf hole in his life played downhill, gradually or severely, and normally was downwind as well.

Golf is a game of endless failure and frustration.

Whenever I dream of playing a perfect round of golf, which I rarely do more than a dozen times a day, I picture myself on one of my favorite British Open-style links, and in particular the great courses of the west of Ireland, whose holes flow through naturally bunkered dunesland never far from the sight or sound of surf.

Playing golf is like learning a foreign language.

Golf isn't just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and putting into soup cans, out of the ivy and over rose bushes and hedges - the little Alcott Golf and Country Club. I just loved having a wedge in my hands.

I can't even pretend to play golf.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

I still don't get golf.

I'll tell you what, I've been in some seriously bad places playing golf and it's just part of the game.

I'm a 14 handicap. Anyone who golfs knows what that means. I shoot 90 to a hundred or, once in a while, 85.

I play a bit of golf, off a 12 handicap.

When I was at my peak, I would go into streaks where I felt like it was almost magic, that I could knock down the pin from anywhere with my irons.

I love golf. I love every part of it.

I played other sports, so when I played golf, I wanted to have fun. And hitting it far is fun.

Would I have done anything different? I might have put a golf club in my hand instead of a cue. I love watching those guys play. Every situation is different, everything - every shot - has to be so precise.

I'm just a golf enthusiast where I enjoy the game so much, and I'm excited.

I've never really played golf. With the sax, I learned technique well enough so that it feels like part of my body, and I just express myself. That's where I want to get in golf.