Golf Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

We know that golf is an ancient game with great history and tradition, but our golf is only 10 years old so don't judge us too harshly.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

Golf is a passion that will stay with me forever. That's all I know.

Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.

When you are too old to play golf, you had better die.

If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.

Ninety percent of putts that are short, don't go in.

Playing golf is like going to a strip joint. After 18 holes you are tired and most of your balls are missing.

I've thrown or broken a few clubs in my day. In fact, I guess at one time or another I probably held distance records for every club in the bag.

A photographer kept shooting me every time I swung. I was very flattered until I found out he was from Field and Stream.

I love to crunch numbers. I look at how many fairways I hit, how many greens I hit. I plan my way around the golf course.

Golf's really fun in Japan because of the women caddies. ... I saw one guy start out playing alone with his caddie. By the 9th hole they were engaged and when they finished on 18 they had a foursome.

If I'm on the course and lightning starts, I get inside fast. If God wants to play through, let him.

When I'm not working, I like to play golf.

I don't support the belly putter. I think it's bad for the game of golf.

Essentially, he has been retired since he was 21.

Nobody ever remembers who finished second at anything.

Tennis is like a wonderful, longstanding relationship with a husband. Golf is a tempestuous, lousy lover; it's totally unpredicatable, a constant surprise.

Golf is you against yourself.

Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.

To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

If I ever get bored with golf, I'm going to start over and play lefthanded.

If you expect a bad lie for even one second, the gods will know it and give you a bad lie.

The three things I fear most in golf are lightning, Ben Hogan and a downhill putt.

I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.

I never pray on a golf course. Actually, the Lord answers my prayers everywhere except on the course.

I always thought of myself as some sort of athlete until I started playing golf a couple years ago.

Golf is a better game played downhill.

Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.

That's the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on.

I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.

I don't like the way most people dress on the golf course. I think it's pretty bland, pretty boring.

Nonchalant putts count the same as chalant putts.

When I heard the draw I was out on the golf course. I had an eight-iron in one hand and my mobile in the other. When we came out with United, my club went further than the ball.

I never mixed with golfers when I was playing, mainly because I didn't want to talk golf all night.

My golf-loving friend Bob Hope asked me what my handicap was, so I told him - the Congress.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

I screwed up. It's all on me. I know that...All these hiccups I have, they must be for a reason. All this is just a test. I just don't know what the test is yet.

It is today an accepted principle of golfing architecture that the tiger should be teased and trapped and tested, while the rabbit should be left to peace, since he can make his own hell for himself.

You know why the game of golf is popular? Very easy, it's a great game.

Few golfers are born with the natural talent for hitting the ball, but every player is blessed with the God-given ability to throw a club.

Earth ... God's golf ball.

But golf being an international game and everybody loving the game the way they do, if you want to spread the game of golf, it's good that you have great competition.