I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it.

I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood.

In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.

I had Elvis' number in my book and I never called it.

I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat.

I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it.

I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.

Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.

First time I saw Elvis was at the Lubbock County fairgrounds in Lubbock, Texas. He was on the back end of a truck. There was about 1500 screaming kids.

I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.

It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.

I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.

Don't Cry Daddy is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word.

I'm sure that Elvis was happy for me. I think he was the kind of guy that enjoyed other people's success, especially if he had something to do with it.

If it was just me and Elvis one on one, which only happened once or twice in the times that I did see him, it was a really comfortable. He was a cool guy. Easy laugh, nice guy.

Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.

There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.

One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written.

I have a project at HBO and one at the Family Channel coming that are being looked at. Aside from that I am not doing much more than playing golf and some skiing.

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

My first calendar was a combination of photos taken from different shoots including golf and casual.

There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.

I think travel is probably the downside of playing professional golf, but you've got to do it.

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.

They call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken.

Golf may be a hussy, but I love her.

I don't like going to the mall. I'm not really like the other girls. I just like to go out on the golf course and play. Golf is fun and feels really good.

The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.

Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference.

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

A golf course is nothing but a pool room moved outdoors.

In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

For example, in my district there are visitors from all over the world who are drawn to our beautiful beaches, recreational lakes, habitat wildlife preserves and golf courses.

I've been writing a lot, I've a few projects I'm trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing... Apart from that, if I could get lower that a ten handicap on my golf game I'd be thrilled.

I mean, I can actually say goodbye to the game of golf, never hit another golf shot the rest of my life and I'd be happy because I can get back in life without any rotation.

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

Few learn golf in a lifetime.

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.

Exercise? I get it on the golf course. When I see my friends collapse, I run for the paramedics.

At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.

Golf courses sell real estate and that's why they're built.

My hobbies and leisure activities include cars and golf.

Both of us played basketball, and I played tennis and my knees are done. Now if you ask us head-to-head who wins at golf, I'm asking for a couple of strokes.

The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win.

The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.