Augusta Quotes

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)
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. View quote
Fred Couples
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. View quote
Tiger Woods
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. View quote
Tiger Woods
During thirtyfive years as a foreign correspondent, I must have covered just about everything, from the public life of six Presidents to the private life of a burlesque stripper; from the black market in beef to the Black Panthers; from Estes Kefauver amid the snows of New Hampshire to Jack Nicklaus amid the azaleas of Augusta, Georgia; from Henry Kaiser's Liberty ships to Francis Chichester's Gypsy Moth sailing into Staten Island at one in the morning; from the Marshall Plan to Planned Parenthood; from Senator Joseph McCarthy's last stand to the massacre of Muhammad Ali by Joe Frazier. View quote
Alistair Cooke
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. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Ah! That must be Aunt Augusta. Only relatives, or creditors, ever ring in that Wagnerian manner. View quote
Oscar Wilde
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. View quote
Mike Weir
I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course. View quote
Yani Tseng
Growing up in Augusta in such a protected and loving community is something that I really enjoy talking about. I love talking about - even though I grew up, of course, in the time of segregated schools: Brown vs. Board of Education came along after I was already in first grade. View quote
Jessye Norman
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)
If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time. View quote
Gary Player
I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf. View quote
Jack Nicklaus
I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National. View quote
Jack Nicklaus
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. View quote
Jack Nicklaus