There are very few sports where you can find that tranquility. Some people find that in golf, but when you're in the water it's such a difference from the golf course or the basketball court. That's what makes surfing unique over any other sport.
I used to read every golf magazine front to back; I was addicted to Golf Channel, read Rotella, read every golf book.
We like to hunt and golf and drive around lost, and scratch and spit, and a whole lot of other disgusting stuff.
The man who runs from his office to the golf club, gulps a sandwich, belches and races to the first tee has no business howling in anguish when he puts his first two shots in the woods, then tops a 3-iron shot into the pond.
From its earliest beginnings, golf has been a gentleman's game - to be played as much for the sake of the game as for the contest.
Golf is evolving, every day, every shot.
In order to hit a good golf shot at that moment in time when you're standing over the ball, you must believe that golf shot is the most important things in your life.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you're in this little bubble when you're working - you don't read books, you don't really keep up with the news, you're just living that life.
I just think the game of golf teaches you so much about yourself like who you really are and what you're made of.
If it's sports and women's golf, men's golf, and it's on TV, I'm watching it. I watched those ladies do what they do at such a high level, and she's obviously a big basketball fan and a fan of ours, too. So it was cool to have that interaction.
I still have a Lydia Ko-signed golf ball in my sock drawer that I'll keep for a while.
The difference between now and when I played during my younger days is my drives are shorter and my short game is longer.
I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made - my swing is pretty hot.
That's what makes the Ryder Cup in golf so much better than the Masters or the U.S. Open. To be a part of something that is not about personal achievement, but about representing everyone and sharing it with the whole country, it's wonderful.
Dogbert: Scientists have discovered the gene that makes some people love golf. Dilbert: How can they tell it's the golf gene? Dogbert: It's plaid and it lies.
I was a better player at 50 than I was at 30.
When I swing at a golf ball right, my mind is blank and my body is loose as a goose.
Sport was an obvious favourite of mine, and not only golf. I was, and still am, a big rugby fan.
His golf bag does not contain a full set of irons.
I thrive on the adrenaline of excitement and danger. I just cannot stand boredom on the other side of it. Why am I a person who loves guns? I have no idea. Why do I like to go hunting? I don't know. It doesn't make sense to me. Why does somebody love golf, because that doesn't make sense to me either.
If you look at eggs, you will see that each one is almost round but not quite ... Nature's way of distinguishing eggs from large golf balls.
Golf is the art of driving hard, avoiding the rough, surmounting traps and hazards, aiming straight, and arriving on the green at last, only to end up in a hole in the ground before your companions. The favored pastime of businessmen and their cronies, probably without a full appreciation of its metaphorical implications.
Well my dad was a pretty good player at one stage and my two older brothers played golf as well. So there were always golf clubs flying around the house.
Golf is a game, and games are meant to be enjoyed.
