Charlie Sifford Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Life is never easy to anyone.
Everyone has a challenge to overcome.
Be kind, tolerant, and compassionate.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. A pastor really needs to be broken before God every day, or he will break up the church of God with his willfulness or let it slip into spiritual death through his sloth.

C. John Miller

#4. 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

#5. He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!

Simone De Beauvoir

#6. 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

#7. Hunger of the heart is much stronger than hunger for food.

Amanda Comer

#8. Prejudice hasn't changed to this day, not in golf. Maybe in other sports.

Charlie Sifford

#9. The Europeans waited so long that they are impacting people who depend on their pensions. We are still early enough to fix it for the next generation. A few states have started scaling back their programs, while others have come hat in hand for billion-dollar federal bailouts.

Timothy Griffin

#10. Golf is such a wonderful game. I love it to death.

Charlie Sifford

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

Charlie Sifford

#12. I don't smile much, and I never laugh. If you'd been through what I've been through, you wouldn't be smiling, either.

Charlie Sifford

#13. It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.

Michel De Montaigne

#14. Every time I go into a tournament, I'm strictly on my own. I know I'm playing for my bread and butter.

Charlie Sifford

#15. So many great movements didn't succeed the first time, but people kept trying and trying and trying.

Cory Booker

#16. I believe there's - now, don't get me wrong; I'm not prejudiced - there's some white people in this country who'll never accept the black man as a golfer. That's true.

Charlie Sifford

#17. 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

#18. Most questions are clear when someone else has to decide them.

Howard Da Silva