Quotes About Augusta National

#1. If you're one of the fortunate few on this Earth with a pass to enter the gates of Augusta National on Masters Sunday, you don't leave early. You just don't. If it's a Masters Sunday when Tiger Woods is near the top of the leader board, you really don't leave early.

Willie Geist

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

Jack Nicklaus

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

Jack Nicklaus

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. I don't hit it very far; I don't overpower a golf course, but I think I'm a pretty decent putter. At Augusta National, putting is premium.

Zach Johnson

#7. The experience at the Masters was two years ago, and I am eager to win again this year so I can return to Augusta National in 2016.

Guan Tianlang

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

Yani Tseng

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

Jack Nicklaus

#10. 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

#11. I hadn't thought that women were particularly dangerous golfers. Could that be the reason that the Augusta National Golf club refuses to take down its 'No Women Allowed' sign?

Madeleine M. Kunin

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

Ian Poulter

#13. Armed violence and peace cannot coexist. We need to overcome the challenges we face and seek practical solutions. We must replace the culture of war with the culture of peace.

Widad Akreyi

#14. There ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity. Can you figure out a single thing you really please-God like to do you can do and keep your dignity? The human frame just ain't built that way.

Robert Penn Warren

#15. To the lost man, to the pioneer penetrating a new country, to the naturalist who wishes to see the wild land at its wildest, the advice is always the same - follow a river. The river is the original forest highway. It is nature's own Wilderness Road.

Edwin Way Teale

#16. What is disgraceful and outrageous is that 18,000 children die of hunger every day, every one of them a preventable death. That's what the controversy should be about.

John Powell

#17. If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

Peter York

#18. Be alone and love it. Be lonely and hate it. The first will empower you; the later will destroy you. Become your own best friend and never be lonely again.

Doobie Shemer

#19. When women have a voice in national and international affairs, wars will cease forever.

Augusta Stowe-Gullen

#20. Kiernan leans forward. "I'm guessing that's because you can make it work, Mr. Houdini. Maybe that's how you manage . . ." He pauses when my kick lands on his shin, but finishes the sentence anyway. ". . . some of your more elaborate escapes.

Rysa Walker

#21. Eventually, before I die, I hope to have written about every part I've played.

Ian McKellen

#22. I alone, as the sharer of their way of life, presented a replica of childhood.

Neal Cassady

#23. I'm pretty good with knives. I'm so good, in fact, that I could sever your testicles with one hand and slice open your throat with the other, and you'd go into shock so fast you'd die without ever knowing you'd spilled a fucking drop of blood.

Rachel Vincent

#24. When people say things like "don't let this moment pass without acting on gun control," what they're really saying is our arguments are so unpersuasive that they can only succeed when people aren't thinking clearly.

Glenn Reynolds