FUNNY SPORTS QUOTES \ Source: golftoday.com

GOLF QUOTES

Politicians and Royalty
The Royal and Ancient game has long been popular with those in high office

Golf is a game kings and presidents play when they get tired of running countries.
- Charles Price

Golf always makes me so damned angry.
- King George V

When I look on my life and try to decide out of what I have got most actual pleasure, I have no doubt at all saying that I have got more out of golf than anything else.
- British Minister Lord Barbazon of Tara

Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have won when they have lost nor that they had a magnificent drive when they foozled it. The Englishman is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.
- George Bernard Shaw

While, on the whole, playing through the green is the part most trying to the temper, putting is that most trying to the nerves. There is always the hope that a bad drive may be redeemed by a fine approach shot, or that a 'foozle' with the brassy may be balanced by some brilliant performance with the iron. But when the stage of putting-out has been reached no further illusions are possible.
- British Prime Minister Earl Balfour

Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of the futility of human effort.
- Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban

In 1587 golf's first famous woman player [Mary Queen of Scots] was convicted and beheaded. Women's golf went into something of a decline after that.
- Rhonda Glenn

With a fine sea view and a clear course in front of him, the golfer may be excused if he regards golf, even though it be indifferent golf, as the true and adequate end of man's existence.
- British Prime Minister Earl Balfour

Golf is the only game where the worst player gets the best of it. He obtains more out of it as regards both exercise and enjoyment, for the good player gets worried over the slightest mistake, whereas the poor player makes too many mistakes to worry about them.
- British Prime Minister David Lloyd George)

Golf is to me what his Sabine farm was to the poet Horace - a solace and an inspiration.
- British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald

Golf seems to me an arduous way to go for a walk. I prefer to take the dogs out.
- H.R.H. Princess Anne

Golf has so many virtues; it is not too strenuous; it is healthy; it can be played, anyhow in our climate, practically the whole year round. It has so many advantages over all other games that it must endure and prosper.
- British Minister Lord Barbazon of Tara (1952)

I am quite certain that there has never been a greater addition to the lighter side of civilisation than that supplied by the game of golf.
- British Prime Minister Earl Balfour

I was playing once with the King of Samoa. I asked him what his handicap was. "Six wives," he said.
- Jack Redmond

As General Eisenhower discovered, it is easier to end the Cold War or stamp out poverty than to master this devilish pastime.
- James Reston

I like going there for golf. America is one vast golf course today.
- The Duke of Windsor (formerly King Edward VIII)