Famous Quotes

"I played a lot of other sports at school and just one day the golf bug bit me and I started playing serious golf from when I was ten years old."

Retief Goosen on Sports

More quotes about Sports

• "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

  Michael Jordan on Sports

• "It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling."

  Mark Twain on Sports

• "Golf is a good walk spoiled."

  Mark Twain on Sports

• "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."

  Hunter S. Thompson on Sports

• "Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."

  Henry David Thoreau on Sports

More quotes by Retief Goosen

• "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."

• "I'm not that clued up on the American sports yet, really."

• "Traveling around, it's difficult to follow much TV. Mainly I'm somebody who watches sports."

• "Golf is growing, and there are more good young players, but you don't see them going abroad. It's so expensive to travel."