Sifford Golf Quotes & Sayings

If I was the Jackie Robinson of golf, I sure didn't do a very good job of it. Jackie was followed by hundreds of great black ballplayers who have transformed their sport ... But there are hardly any black kids coming up through the ranks of golf today. — Charlie Sifford

Forgiveness (noun): popular form of denial for those who lack the stamina true hatred requires — Lime Craven

Man, I'm in the World Golf Hall of Fame. Don't forget that, now. I'm in the World Golf Hall of Fame with all the players. That little old golf I played was all right, wasn't it? — Charlie Sifford

There's tonnes of room for more people in the tech market, and there are lots of content gaps that have still not yet been tapped into. — Jon Oringer

When I'd get out of school in the afternoon, I would go to the golf course, and I just picked the game up. And when I was 13 years old, I could shoot 70 - even-par 71, one over par and then something like that. I just took a liking to the game. — Charlie Sifford

I simply took refuge among women. As you know, they don't really condemn any weakness; they would be more inclined to try to humiliate or disarm our strength. This is why woman is the reward, not of the warrior, but of the criminal. She is his harbor, his haven; it is in a woman's bed that he is generally arrested. Is she not all that remains to us of earthly paradise? — Albert Camus

Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you. — Satchel Paige

Golf is such a wonderful game. I love it to death. — Charlie Sifford

Success is the prize for those who stand true to their ideas. — Josh Hinds

Tiger had the advantage of high school, college, and a father who knew golf. I was self-taught. Blacks really won't play golf in great numbers until some of these basketball and football stars buy some golf courses where blacks can play. — Charlie Sifford

He had realised that most vital of humanities. he had touched lives.
And he had raised three boys that no one had wanted into men. — Nora Roberts

I knew what I was getting into when I chose golf. Hell, I knew I'd never get rich and famous. All the discrimination, the not being able to play where I deserved and wanted to play - in the end, I didn't give a damn. I was made for a tough life because I'm a tough man. And in the end, I won: I got a lot of black people playing golf. — Charlie Sifford

I get to travel around the world and meet all of these amazing people, and they're singing my songs! And to me, that's crazy. — Kina Grannis

I play golf just about every week. I'm playing on the Senior Tour now - super seniors - I'm a super senior. — Charlie Sifford

I can give her no greater power than she has already, said the woman; don't you see how strong that is? How men and animals are obliged to serve her, and how well she has got through the world, barefooted as she is. She cannot receive any power from me greater than she now has, which consists in her own purity and innocence of heart. If she cannot herself obtain access to the Snow Queen, and remove the glass fragments from little Kay, we can do nothing to help her. — Hans Christian Andersen

As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong. — Tabitha Suzuma

Prejudice hasn't changed to this day, not in golf. Maybe in other sports. — Charlie Sifford

Definitely when you get handed roles like Joel in 'The Last of Us,' that's something that will change your life, and I learned so much from that role. — Troy Baker

Some people are born with very little; some are fortunate enough to have it all. When I grew up, we didn't have much. I had to hustle to get what I wanted ... but I had that hunger for more. I didn't always make the right choices, but I learned from my mistakes. — Curtis Jackson

Faith is reacting positively to a negative situation. — Robert H. Schuller