Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet.

Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.

Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.

I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet.

There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.

If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.

I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap.

Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet.

Follow your own passion - not your parents', not your teachers' - yours.

I am a geologist.

I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.

I am really dedicated to understanding the planet/creature on which we live and know that means I must go beneath the sea to see 72 percent of what is going on.

I can't travel without Sudoku.

I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.

I prefer sayings over jokes.

I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!

I would have to say my favorite place on Earth is Bora Bora.

My family came in 1635 from England and settled in Williamsburg. Shortly after, they split up; half went to New England and half stayed in Virginia. I'm a Virginian Ballard.

There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea.

There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's finders keepers.

Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.

What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.

Where I live in Connecticut was ice a mile above my house, all the way back to the North Pole, about 15 million kilometers, that's a big ice cube. But then it started to melt. We're talking about the floods of our living history.

I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women

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.