Pete Dye Quotes

#1. Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club.

Jack Nicklaus

#2. Golf is not a fair game, so why build a course fair?

Pete Dye

#3. I've been trying to get Mr. Finchem to lengthen 5 and 7 and 14 and 18 - and he's being a mule,

Pete Dye

#4. The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top.

Pete Dye

#5. Every time you build a golf course, it's not a golf course when you get there. You have to improvise.

Pete Dye

#6. Phineas just walked serenely on, or rather flowed on, rolling forward in his white sneakers with such unthinking unity of movement that "walk" didn't describe it.

John Knowles

#7. It was an observation of Plato, long since, that those are not the best stomachs that reject, without distinction, all sorts of aliments." "True," said Candide, "but still there must certainly be a pleasure in criticising everything, and in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.

Voltaire

#8. I am not confident unless I am playing someone else.

Shahrukh Khan

#9. Life is not fair, so why should I make a course that is fair.

Pete Dye

#10. I don't like modern country music. It's not what I'm into, is all. I'm old-school.

Shelby Lynne

#11. Do not be awed by giant predecessors. Be ill-tempered with their renown. Point out flaws. Frighten interviewers from Time. Appear in Playboy. Sell to the movies.

Vladimir Nabokov

#12. With the goal of crafting a course that fits harmoniously with its surroundings, we took full advantage of the dramatic vistas, indigenous flora and beautiful rolling terrain to create a memorable golf experience for members and resort guests.

Pete Dye

#13. The Lone Star Card will make food stamp coupons obsolete.

John Sharp

#14. I have always been an avid bike rider. Even before I became an avid bike rider, I was an avid bike stealer when I was a kid. I am very educated on bikes.

Bo Jackson