Golf Quotes

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

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.

Got more dirt than ball. Here we go again.

I thought I'd blown it at the 17th when I drove into a trap. God is a Mexican.

No one ever swung too slowly.

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.

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

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

Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?

I am among those who firmly believe that a round of golf should not take more than three and a half hours, four at most. Anything longer than that is not a round of golf, it's life in Albania.

When I first came on tour, I was playing for money. Now I'm playing to win golf tournaments and the money is more than I ever dreamed I could make.

Golfers find it a very trying matter to turn at the waist, more particularly if they have a lot of waist to turn

Golf, like measles, should be caught young.

Talking to a golf ball won't do you any good, unless you do it while your opponent is teeing off.

The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.

This is the substance of our Plot-For those who play the Perfect Shot, There are ten thousand who do not.

The smaller the ball used in the sport, the better the book.

I was three over. One over a house, one over a patio, and one over a swimming pool.

I have been able to hope for the best, expect the worst, and take what comes along. If there has been one fundamental reason for my success, this is it.

Weathermen merely forecast rain to keep everyone else off the golf course

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.

I've never been to heaven and, thinking back on my life, I probably won't get a chance to go. I guess the Masters is as close as I'm going to get.

Golf is supposed to be fun, but I don't think anything is fun if you're not doing it reasonably well.

As far as swing and techniques are concerned, I don't know diddly squat. When I'm playing well, I don't even take aim.

I want to play golf, practice and not do much else. I don't drink, I don't smoke and I hate going places where you have to yell at someone who is about a foot away from you.

I don't think it's healthy to take yourself too seriously.

Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.

Nobody ever looked up and saw a good shot.

There's a guy who won't be in contention. There's another one I don't have to worry about.

The one stroke marks the difference between fame and oblivion.

That's the trouble with Nick. The only time he opens his mouth is to change feet.

Always keep in mind that if God didn't want a man to have mulligans, golf balls wouldn't come three to a sleeve.

I haven't slept properly for 12 years because of this bloody game. I don't think you do in a competitive game. You toss and turn and you don't sleep.

Golf is a thinking man's game. You can have all the shots in the bag, but if you don't know what to do with them, you've got troubles.

I don't exaggerate - I just remember big.

If we love the sea as much as we claim to we'll do everything we possibly can to keep it healthy. Otherwise we might as well take up golf.

The people don't take baths and they don't speak English. No golf courses, no room service. Who needs it?

Golf is based on honesty, where else would you admit to a seven on a par three?

Once when I was golfing in Georgia, I hooked the ball into the swamp. I went in after it and found an alligator wearing a shirt with a picture of a little golfer on it.

Everybody can see that my swing is homegrown. That means everybody has a chance to do it.

I don't play the sport for fame. I don't try to win tournaments for fame. I don't do any of that. It's just me. I'm just Bubba. I goof around. I joke around. I just want to be me and play golf.

Golf is played between the ears and if you are not 100 percent focused on what you are trying to do, then people will go past you no matter who you are.

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.

A rough should have high grass. When you go bowling they don't give you anything for landing in the gutter, do they?

The moment the average golfer attempts to play from long grass or a bunker or from a difficult lie of any kind, he becomes a digger instead of a swinger.

Rhythm and timing are the two things which we all must have, yet no one knows how to teach either.

I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.

My wife and I like to go to church if we're in town. On Sundays, I try to be as chill as I can, whether I'm watching golf or barbecuing.

I do try to work out a little. I go swimming twice a day. It beats buying golf balls.