Golf Quotes

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

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

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

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.

The game lends itself to fantasies about our abilities.

It is not a matter of life and death. It is not that important. But it is a reflection of life, and so the game is an enigma wrapped in a mystery impaled on a conundrum.

I try to exercise in nature, and I try to play golf once a month. The last time I played golf with my wife, however, she got better scores than me, which became an additional source of stress.

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.

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.

Golf's for everybody.

He's hit it fat.... It will probably be short.... It just hit the front edge of the green.... It's got no chance.... It's rolling toward the cup.... Well I'll be damned!

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right.

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.

The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself.

Those trees seem to grow every year.

I never kick my ball in the rough or improve my lie in a sand trap. For that I have a caddie.

Sometimes, we should maybe sit back and look at all we have. It's because of golf and the tour. I mean, this life we lead is unbelievable.

I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.

I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it.

They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. It's more complicated than that.

His driving is unbelievable. I don't go that far on my holidays.

I'm actually a very quiet person off the golf course. I talk 150 miles per hour when I'm at the course, but when in private I very seldom ever open my mouth.

I like going there for golf. America is one vast golf course today.

Out here, it's just you and the ball.

My only goal is to look back at the end of each year and see that I have improved.

I'll shoot my age if I have to live to be 105.

Golf is a puzzle without an answer.

Golf does strange things to other people, too. It makes liars out of honest men, cheats out of altruists, cowards out of brave men and fools out of everybody.

The reason they call if 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up.

A golf swing is a collection of corrected mistakes.

I have always had a drive that pushed me to try for perfection, and golf is a game in which perfection stays just out of reach.

It should almost be a prerequisite to play Castle Stuart before you're allowed to design golf courses nowadays.

Oakmont possesses all the charm of a sock to the head.

This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.

My first calendar was a combination of photos taken from different shoots including golf and casual.

I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting.

The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

It's amazing how many people beat you at golf now that you're no longer president.

It’s up to the captain. I certainly feel my golf is worthy of playing in the Ryder Cup. But I’m not sure I’m on the radar screen of Paul McGinley.

Like most professional golfers, I have a tendency to remember my poor shots a shade more vividly than the good ones.

Fifty years ago, 100 white men chasing one black man across a field was called the Ku Klux Klan. Today it's called the PGA Tour.

Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.

The other day I broke 70. That's a lot of clubs.

Golf is good, it means I get some fresh air and exercise, take my mind off work and see some of the landscape of the place I'm visiting.

It is the glorious uncertainty of golf that makes it the game it is.

Wear it if it clashes.