As far as golf being athletic, I would say, go try it, let's see how well you do. It's a hard game.
I thought I would just become a pro at a golf course.
If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.
You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later.
Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
People ask me, 'Would you ever want to play professional golf?' And I'm like, 'No. No, no, no, no. Just because I can hit a good shot every now and then doesn't make me a pro.'
If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.
I've had the luxury of playing golf around the world, and I've spent a lot of time evaluating how to play all kinds of courses.
Jim Murray's greatest writings were golf writings.
I've seen the bottom and I know the difference between good golf and bad golf.
For me, take Tiger Woods. I always thought he was great, but I never truly understood how good he was until I had the chance to go to Tiger Woods Golf Camp. He taught me how to swing and was hitting the ball, and this dude was unreal.
If a caddie can help you, you don't know how to play golf.
I think people like players they can relate to. It seems as if people think they know me. I just think I'm an ordinary Joe who plays golf very, very well.
I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made - my swing is pretty hot.
I learned how to play golf over in Europe; I learned how to manage being on the road.
Golf is really tricky. I feel like you either have to be a broadcaster, or a professional golfer or a golf instructor. If you're not one of those things you don't really fit in the game.
You just don't go in there with Tiger Woods and say, ‘Oh, do this.' Sean Foley was quoted, a month after he worked with Tiger, as saying ‘You can't get this guy to listen to anything.'
Tiger's a horrible golf teacher.
There are some guys out here that can really play golf, but it has not been their focus for that long.
I don't cover golf tournaments anymore - I preside over them.
You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
