Brian Lara Quotes

Golf is all about patience - one tournament is four days long, 18 holes a day.

It's just golf. As long as I get done without breakin' somethin' or hurtin' somebody, that's my goal.

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

In fantasy land, I wish I could be a pro golfer. I love golf - the most frustratingly brilliant game on the planet.

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.

At the U.S. Open, you're going to make bogeys.

You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.

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

I just had to get on the golf course and play holes whether it was practice or tournaments. Just keep playing. There's nothing else you can do.

Golf is a whole different sport, a whole different challenge, everything.

I want to try to become the best golfer in the world.

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

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

I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can.

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

I've been around golf my whole life. My father did it all the time, and I resented him for it. But a couple years ago I picked up a golf club and I understood the physics of it. If anyone knows anything about golf, it's that once you hit a few shots, you'll become addicted.

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

You know, why the game of golf is popular? Very easy, it's a great game.

Sometimes, I play a round of extremely poor golf.

My grandson Sam Saunders has been playing golf since he could hold a club and I spent a lot of time with him over the years. Like my father taught me, I showed him the fundamentals of the game and helped him make adjustments as he and his game matured over the years.

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 not easy.

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.

Golfers don't scream. Golfers just adjust the pleats in their pants and go from there. That's about as antagonistic as we get.