Augusta Quotes:

If you have an ego of any sort, this course [Augusta] will take it and shove it down your throat.

- Tom Watson

topic: Golf, Ego, Throat, Augusta

If we had to play Augusta National in one hour, the best athlete would win the Masters. But as it is, they give us time to hang ourselves. Every swing is a 'thought shot'. So instead of the best athlete, you end up with the best thinker as the winner.

- Joe Inman

topic: Athlete, Golf, Winning, Augusta, Augusta National

The Masters is one of golf's greatest traditions and Augusta is one of the best courses in the world. They are synonymous. It's an event that every golfer, and golf fan, looks forward to.

- Mike Weir

source: Skysports.com Interview, www.skysports.com. July 03, 2011.

topic: Golf, Looks, World, Augusta

There isn't a hole out there [Augusta] that can't be birdied if you just think. But there isn't one that can't be double-bogeyed if you stop thinking.

- Bobby Jones

topic: Golf, Thinking, Holes, Augusta

If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.

- Gary Player

topic: Golf, Heaven, Want, Tees, Augusta

The Masters is where I won my first major, and I view this tournament with great respect. After a long and necessary time away from the game, I feel like I'm ready to start my season at Augusta.

- Tiger Woods

source: "Tiger Woods to play Masters next month" by James Hibberd, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 16, 2010.

topic: Respect, Views, Games, Time Away, Great Respect

They don't cut the greens here at Augusta. they use bikini wax.

- Gary McCord

topic: Cutting, Use, Bikinis, Augusta

The major championships have always been a special focus in my career, and as a professional, I think Augusta is where I need to be.

- Tiger Woods

topic: Thinking, Careers, Focus, Augusta

I enjoy Augusta. I enjoy its challenges. There's no other golf course like this anywhere. Its greens and its challenges on and around the greens are just super, super tough. So the greens are fun to play in sort of a morbid way

- Ben Crenshaw

topic: Fun, Golf, Play, Augusta

Augusta National is a young man's golf course, and you really need a young man's nerves to play on it.

- Jack Nicklaus

topic: Golf, Men, Play, Augusta, Augusta National

If you go to Atlanta, the first question people ask you is, "What's your business?" In Macon they ask, "Where do you go to church?" In Augusta they ask your grandmother's maiden name. But in Savannah the first question people ask you is "What would you like to drink?

- John Berendt

source: "Even in the Best of Cities" by Jonathan Yardley, www.washingtonpost.com. February 06, 1994.

topic: Grandmother, Names, Atlanta, Savannah, Maiden Names

Playing Augusta is like playing a Salvador Dali landscape. I expected a clock to fall out of the trees and hit me in the face.

- David Feherty

topic: Fall, Golf, Tree, Augusta

I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in her life, may she rest in peace. Because that deed saved my life, if not sooner, then later, when sometimes the only thing I had to hold on to was knowing I could read.

- Audre Lorde

topic: Rest In Peace, Children, Reading, Augusta

There are a lot of great players from Europe who have never played Augusta, but all the guys in America have all played St. Andrews. They've gone over and made a trip to play St. Andrews.

- Tiger Woods

topic: Player, Europe, America, Augusta

I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.

- Yani Tseng

topic: Beautiful, Golf, Fabulous, Augusta, Augusta National

This will be my 54th trip to Augusta. I got $20,000 for winning the Masters. Now I get $10,000 to go there and eat a free steak.

- Bob Goalby

topic: Winning, Steak, Masters, Augusta

My wife says, and I agree with her, that what would be really great for Maine would be to legalize dope completely and set up dope stores the way that there are state-run liquor stores. You could get your Acapulco gold or your whatever it happened to be - your Augusta gold or your Bangor gold. And people would come from all the other states to buy it, and there could be a state tax on it. Then everybody in Maine could have a Cadillac.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King, Tim Underwood, Chuck Miller (1988). “Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King”, McGraw-Hill Companies

topic: Running, Dope, People, Liquor Stores, Acapulco

Oakmont is probably the premier - Oakmont and Augusta National are probably the top two set of greens in the country.

- Jack Nicklaus

source: Source: www.nicklaus.com

topic: Country, Two, Augusta National, Augusta

Well, I think that Augusta is not the same golf course that I grew up on. Bobby Jones' philosophy was giving you space off the tee; if you put it in the right side of the fairway, you ended up getting the right angle to the green.

- Jack Nicklaus

topic: Philosophy, Golf, Thinking, Tees, Augusta

If you let it, the Masters will play you instead of you playing it. Augusta National can pamper you right off the bottom of the leader board. Pampered before and after your round, but mentally and emotionally pulverized during them - that's the formula.

- Joe Inman

topic: Golf, Play, Leader, Pampered, Augusta

I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.

- Jack Nicklaus

topic: Beach, Golf, Thinking, Pebble Beach, Augusta

Ben Hogan was not really a big hitter. He was long enough. But Ben Hogan today? Ben Hogan today could not compete at Augusta because he did not have the massive length to compete against the long hitters. Power was always an issue at Augusta, but never so dominant that you couldn't play it.

- Jack Nicklaus

topic: Play, Issues, Long, Augusta

Golf is a game to me. Other players work extremely hard all year long. I work hard before Augusta. I know I get good results when I practice, but it also wears me out. It literally wore me out even when I was in my 20s.

- Fred Couples

topic: Hard Work, Golf, Player, Augusta

Bunbury? Oh, he was quite exploded. Exploded! Was he the victim of a revolutionary outrage? I was not aware that Mr. Bunbury was interested in social legislation. If so, he is well punished for his morbidity. My dear Aunt Augusta, I mean he was found out! The doctors found out that Bunbury could not , that is what I mean—so Bunbury died. He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Mean, Aunt, Doctors, Great Confidence, Morbidity

Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well. Algernon. I’m feeling very well, Aunt Augusta. Lady Bracknell. That’s not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together.

- Oscar Wilde

source: Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.11, Xist Publishing

topic: Aunt, Two, Feelings, Good Afternoon, Augusta

It's [Augusta National] a difficult course and it doesn't make it easier when you have three shanks.

- Ian Poulter

topic: Golf, Augusta National, Three, Augusta, Shank

I talk slicker than a pimp from Augusta who just had his linen suit dry-cleaned

- Drake

topic: Humble, Pimp, Dry, Linen, Self Perception

Obviously my game wasn't too good at Augusta, I had a couple of technical faults, the posture wasn't too good. It's a bit unfortunate because I was playing a lot of good golf, but when I got sick (flu) before The Masters, that was bad timing and I wasn't quite myself.

- Ernie Els

topic: Couple, Golf, Games, Good Golf, Bad Timing

John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thought All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from that Contact everything Antaeus-like grew strong.

- William Butler Yeats

topic: Strong, Soil, Said, Augusta

I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.

- Jack Nicklaus

topic: Careers, Littles, Augusta National, Augusta

I'm playing in the Masters. It's obviously very important to me, and I want to be there. I've worked a lot on my game and I'm looking forward to competing. I'm excited to get to Augusta and I appreciate everyone's support.

- Tiger Woods

topic: Games, Appreciate, Support, Augusta

I remember what a thrill it was to attend my first Champions Dinner. Just being in the same room with some of the guys I had admired growing up and to be there because I had won The Masters was quite an honor. I still attend the dinner every year and it is one of the highlights of my time at Augusta during Masters week.

- Arnold Palmer

source: "Interview: Arnold Palmer talks Bay Hill, Rory McIlroy and the Masters". Interview with Ryan Ballengee, sports.yahoo.com. March 28, 2015.

topic: Growing Up, Years, Guy, Augusta