Golf Quotes

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

A lot of celebrities golf because they want to be away. For them it's a chance to get away and be peaceful. For me it's peaceful to ride [cycling].

Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.

Much of anyone's game is played (or should be played) in the short six-inch course between the ears.

The doctors told me I'd be fine if I play only golf and tennis doubles for the rest of my life. But I dive. I dogsled. I trek. I guess I'll have surgery.

Every time you build a golf course, it’s not a golf course when you get there. You have to improvise.

It's the most fun I've had with my clothes on.

But you don't have to go up in the stands and play your foul balls. I do.

Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.

My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.

I don't need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?

Be prepared to scramble right from the start.

I think golf is a waste of time and a waste of a sunny afternoon. I also stink at it. I have never found anything, including divorce and a sexual harassment suit, more frustrating.

There are a lot of things in life way more important than money. All that said, some people do get confused. I play golf with a man who says, " What good is health? You can't buy money with it."

I try not to get too emotional, whether it's going really well or going really bad, i always try to stay even keel -- which is great for golf, but it isn't always great for life.

Golf is a great way for someone to learn discipline, responsibility and sportsmanship.?

I have always wanted to live where one could practice (golf) shots in one's pajamas before breakfast.

I'm a golfaholic, no question about that. Counseling wouldn't help me. They'd have to put me in prison, and then I'd talk the warden into building a hole or two and teach him how to play.

Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.

Jesus Christ can't hit a golf ball straight. It's virtually impossible - at best it's an accident.

Did you know there's probably more golf played in Iceland than most places in the world? They play 24 hours a day in the summertime and the northern part is warmer than the southern part.

I like trying to win. That's what golf is all about.

I am what I am. I love golf, I love my life, I love my family and friends.

Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.

I try to work with God as a partner.

I carry a golf ball to put under my feet when they get tight, and a Thera-Band for general stretching.

Surfing is like golf: You're always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It's magic.

I love Merion and I don't even know her last name.

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

Sam Snead did to the tee-shot what Roger Bannister did to the four-minute mile.

When you play the game for fun, it's fun. When you play it for a living, it's a game of sorrows.

No, I don't have any problems leaving disappointments behind. I've had lots of good days at golf and a few disappointments, so you never know what's around the corner.

Extremely large greens breed slovenly play. When any green ceases to command respect, it loses its value as a test of that rarest of all strokes, the shot home.

In golf as in life, it's the follow through that makes the difference.

I compare the pressure of a golf shot with making an extra point in basketball. The player starts from a full stop, and that rim doesn't move.

After hitting two balls into the water- By God, I've got a good mind to jump in and make it four.

Fitness plays such an important role in my life, and an integral part of my golf structure, that I think I might be quite good at teaching others the benefits of sport and fitness.

Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

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 than a 10 handicap on my golf game, I'd be thrilled.

I don't like to watch golf on television because I can't stand people who whisper.

Follow through: The part of the swing that takes place after the ball has been hit, but before the club has been thrown.

It's been 18 months since I won on the European Tour and to win the flagship event, I could not have asked for any more.

I dreamed one night that I had 17 holes-in-one and one two, and when I woke up I was so goddam mad.

My favorite shots are the practice swing and the conceded putt. The rest can never be mastered.

I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf.

Staying in the present is the key to any golfer's game: once you start thinking about a shot you just messed up or what you have to do on the next nine to catch somebody, you're lost.

I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.

I always like to see a person stand up to a golf ball as though he were perfectly at home in its presence.

If I could explain golf, I'd be a genius.

It's mass confusion. I'm guessing on every shot. About the only thing left for me is acupuncture in the brain.