Golf Quotes

I can sum it up like this: Thank God for the game of golf.

To play well you have to have good balance in your life. Tiger has found that. If you play golf long enough you'll learn that life is more than golf.

I'm in the woods so much I can tell you which plants are edible.

Concentrate, play your game, and don't be afraid to win.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

I have always felt and said that a man who can be a champion in one era could be a champion in any other era because he has what it takes to reach the top.

Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.

Why waste good shots in practice when you might need them in a match?

I had a wonderful experience on the golf course today. I had a hole in nothing. Missed the ball and sank the divot.

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

I have never felt so lonely as on a golf course in the midst of a championship with thousands of people around, especially when things began to go wrong and the crowds started wandering away.

A golf ball is like a clock. Always hit it at 6 o'clock and make it go toward 12 o'clock. But make sure you're in the same time zone.

Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course.

"Play it as it lies" is one of the fundamental dictates of golf

I'm happy with the success I've had, and I feel like there's been a lot that I've learned this year, and that's a great thing going into the future.

I try to build courses for the most enjoyment by the greatest number.

Is there such a thing as a technically perfect swing? If there is, I have yet to see it.

Pebble Beach is Alcatraz with grass.

I have to believe in myself. I know what I can do, what I can achieve.

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

I'm a great believer that if you don't get the ball to the hole, it won't go in.

These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

Most people play a fair game of golf - if you watch them.

I used to go to the driving range to practice driving without slicing. Now I go to practice slicing without swearing.

I've had a good day when I don't fall out of the cart.

There are many ways of performing the operations successfully. I can claim, however, to be in a position to explain how not to putt. I think I know as well as anybody how not to do it.

In tennis you move a lot. Golf you dont. In tennis, you can have a bad half-hour, but you cant in golf. You can lose the first set in tennis and still win.

Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt.

What did I want with prestige? The British Open paid the winner $600 in American money. A man would have to be two hundred years old at that rate to retire from golf.

Playing from deep grass is a fact of life in professional golf.

The reason the Road Hole at St. Andrews is the most difficult par 4 in the world is that it was designed as a par 6.

I see no reason that a golf course cannot be played in 18 birdies. Just because no one has ever done that doesn't mean it can't be done.

In the United States, I'm lucky; in Europe, I'm good.

In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

Whatever happens on the golf course is OK, because if I put the ball in trouble I know that I have the skills to get it out of trouble and back into play.

If a man can shoot 10 birdies, there's no reason why he can't shoot 18. Why can't you birdie every hole on the course?

I developed osteoporosis of the personality. My thought processes became brittle.

I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore.

Golf is very much like a love affair. If you don't take it seriously, it's no fun, if you do, it breaks your heart. Don't break your heart, but flirt with the possibility.

No one ever swung too slowly.

What separates great players from the good ones is not so much ability as brain power and emotional equilibrium.

Golf is the only game in which a precise knowledge of the rules can earn one a reputation for bad sportsmanship.

Good golf begins with a good grip.

Arnie has more people watching him park the car than we do out on the course.

I had held a notion that I could make a pretty fair appraisal of the worth of an opponent simply by speaking to him on the first tee and taking a good measuring look into his eyes.

Got more dirt than ball. Here we go again.

Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.

Golf is a percentage game, and I play the percentages.

If I swung the gavel the way I swung that golf club, the nation would be in a helluva mess.