Golf Quotes

Too many people asking too many questions in tennis. Golf is better.

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

No one has ever conquered this game. One week out there and you are God, next time you are the devil. But it does keep you coming back.

When I ask you what club to use, look the other way and don't answer.

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

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

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.

Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.

Golf is you against yourself.

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

Nobody ever remembers who finished second at anything.

Essentially, he has been retired since he was 21.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

The game lends itself to fantasies about our abilities.

We have 51 golf courses in Palm Springs. He [President Ford] never decides which course he will play until after the first tee shot.

You must attain a neurological and biological serenity in chaos. You cannot let yourself be sabotaged by adrenaline.

Bob Hope has a beautiful short game. Unfortunately, it's off the tee.

A hungry dog hunts best.

I tried real hard to play golf, and I was so bad at it they would have to check me for ticks at the end of the round because I'd spent about half the day in the woods.

I'm playing like Tarzan-and scoring like Jane.

This is where God hangs out.

Golf is difficult to get your personality over because you are such a bottle of concentration.

The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.

When I used to gamble, I looked for players with head covers on their irons. Those guys I could beat.

Be who you really are.

My psychiatrist prescribed a game of golf as an antidote to the feelings of euphoria I experience from time to time.

Gerry Ford is easy to spot on the course. He drives the cart with the red cross painted on top.

I always think under par. You have to believe in yourself.

Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.

That's great. They should put the hole in the fairway.

My wife, she still gives me a hard time, and says I hunt too much or I like to play golf too much. And she's probably right, but it sure beats some of the things I used to do.

Little Bobby Jones of Atlanta is really a fine player, and shows every indication of becoming a tremendous great one, once he is master of himself, which must come with maturity.

Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses...

I'm a golfaholic. And all the counseling in the world wouldn't help me.

I didn't want to change the name on the towels.

Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren't penalized for being on grass.

The dollars aren't so important... once you have them.

It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.

Golf's for everybody.

If he takes the option of dropping behind the point where the ball rests, keeping in line with the pin, his nearest drop is Honolulu.

The 'enemy' in golf is tension.

Regardless of what the tour pros think, golf is a rich and varied game, and what all of us awkward fools do on weekends is what golf is truly all about.