“We [Americans] are a football-baseball-basketball-golf culture with some ocassional forays into tennis and less often the winter sports.” CultureSportsFootballBasketballBaseballGolfWinterTennis Author:Michael Wilbon
“After Michael Jordan recently criticized President Obama's golf game, Obama responded by saying that Jordan should spend more time thinking about his basketball team, the Charlotte Hornets. Then Jordan said, 'Do you really want to talk about whose team got crushed this week?'” ThinkingWantShouldSaidGamesPresidentWeekTeamBasketballGolfMore TimePresident ObamaCrushedJordanCharlotteBasketball TeamGolf GameHornets Author:Jimmy Fallon
“A writer from ESPN magazine once described me as the world's largest eleven-year-old. That's true. I ride my Sea-Doo jet ski, play putt-putt golf, go to water parks, and act silly. On the bottom floor of my house in Beverly Hills, I have video games, a pool table, a Pepsi machine, and all the things they have in arcades. I drive go-karts, at least the ones I can fit in. I karate-chop my friends when they come over, like the Kato dude in the Pink Panther movies.” WorldYearsI CanPlayGamesHouseWaterSeaFitBasketballMy FriendsMachinesTablesGolfBottomSillyVideoMagazinesHillsParksPoolElevenJetKarateSkisPanthersBeverly HillsPepsiEspnArcadesPink PantherPool Table Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“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.” PeopleCoursesSportsWaterDifferencesBasketballUniqueCourtGolfTranquilitySurfingGolf CourseBasketball Court Author:Troy Polamalu
“For a long time, I was more involved in basketball, baseball and golf. My parents didn't push me into football when I was a little kid, but they coaxed me into trying it as a 10th grader.” TryingLittlesLongKidsParentFootballInvolvedBasketballLong TimeBaseballGolfLittle Kid Author:Marc Bulger
“Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.” InspirationalFootballBasketballGolfTrackDenyTennisDominantAthleticAthletics Author:Jesse Jackson
“It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.” YearsSportsRealizingBasketballOriginalsGolfStrokesGolfingNothing NewGreat GolfFunny GolfPlaying GolfGreat GolfingGolf Putting Author:Bobby Jones
“For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you have accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball.” ThinkingInspirationalFacesEnergyTakenBasketballSolutionsGolfLike MeAccomplishedJunkieSmackCompetitiveness Author:Michael Jordan
“It's a really weird mindset to kind of try to take my mentality on the basketball court and bring it here on to the golf course. I don't want to have too high of expectations on, like, each hole, just try to enjoy the process, but hopefully get out to a good start tomorrow and be in the conversation and see what happens.” WantTryingKindHappensCoursesProcessEnjoyTomorrowConversationBasketballExpectationsCourtGolfMindsetHolesHopefullyMentalityGolf CourseReally WeirdBasketball Court Author:Stephen Curry
“A lot more variables in golf. But the biggest thing is like just routine. Like I think that's the biggest correlation between golfers and basketball players, is for me I really rely on my routine every single day when I get ready for games and how I prepare.” ThinkingGamesPlayerReadyBasketballGolfRelyRoutineGolfersVariablesBasketball PlayerCorrelation Author:Stephen Curry
“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.” IfsMenBigsSportsLevelsFansTvsBasketballGolfInteractionHigh Level Author:Stephen Curry
“If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.” IfsGamesSportsBasketballGolfWoodsTigersPlaying Golf Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.” MenSportsBlackWhiteFashionBasketballGolfAthleteSexyHockeyWhite ManInspirational SportsGolfersGolfingGolf LifeGreat GolfFunny GolfGreat SportsGreat GolfingAthlete MotivationalFunny GolfingPimpGreatest GolfFunny SportsFunniest SportsGolf SwingInspirational GolfGolf HumorPopular SportsFunny Inspirational SportsMotivational GolfHilarious Sports Author:Tiger Woods
“But I have to say this in defense of humankind: In no matter what era in history, including the Garden of Eden, everybody just got here. And, except for the Garden of Eden, there were already all these games going on that could make you act crazy, even if you weren't crazy to begin with. Some of the crazymaking games going on today are love and hate, liberalism and conservatism, automobiles and credit cards, golf, and girls' basketball.” IfsMatterTodayHateGirlGamesCrazyBasketballGardenNo Matter WhatGolfIncludingCreditDefenseCardsErasLiberalismHumankindConservatismAutomobileEdenCredit CardLove And HateGarden Of Eden Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think.” PeopleThinkingKnowsGamesBasketballGolfChess Book:B Is for Beer Source: B Is for Beer
“Among other things, neuroplasticity means that emotions such as happiness and compassion can be cultivated in much the same way that a person can learn through repetition to play golf and basketball or master a musical instrument, and that such practice changes the activity and physical aspects of specific brain areas.” WayMeanPersonsPlayEmotionBrainCompassionPracticeMastersActivityBasketballAreasAspectInstrumentsGolfMusicalRepetitionMusical InstrumentsNeuroplasticity Book:Spontaneous Happiness: Step-by-step to peak emotional wellbeing Source: Spontaneous Happiness: Step-by-step to peak emotional wellbeing
“Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What are we supposed to take up when we quit?” PlayerFootballBasketballBaseballGolfQuittingGolfersGolfingBasketball PlayerBaseball PlayerFootball PlayerGolf LifePlaying Golf Author:George Archer
“I came to the realization a couple months ago that I am fat. If you get tired from walking - and that's all that golf is - then you are officially fat.” IfsMonthsCoupleWalkingBasketballTiredGolfFatsRealization Author:Charles Barkley