Golf Quotes

Golf isn't just my business, it's my hobby.

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

When I putt, my emotions collide like tectonic plates. It's left my memory circuits full of scars that won't heal.

For example, in my district there are visitors from all over the world who are drawn to our beautiful beaches, recreational lakes, habitat wildlife preserves and golf courses.

Let the machine take care of the machines, and I'll go spend more time with my family, or golf.

As far as golf being athletic, I would say, go try it, let's see how well you do. It's a hard game.

Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything.

The number eighteen is symbolically meaningful because it is the numerical equivalent of the Hebrew word chai, which means life.

My hobbies and leisure activities include cars and golf.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is not a public democratic organization; it's a private club basically. It's like a private golf club and they decide who they're going to let in the club.

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

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.

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

I was a little stunned that we didn't get a coloring book with this menu.

I realized that the secret to golf isn't how low you shoot when it's going good, it's how to make your bad rounds better.

A golfer needs a loving wife to whom he can describe the day's play through the long evening.

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

Those trees seem to grow every year.

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

Golf is to me what his Sabine farm was to the poet Horace - a solace and an inspiration.

Visualization. It may be the most important part of your mental package.

You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later.

The trouble that most of us find with the modern matched sets of clubs is that they don't really seem to know any more about the game than the old ones did.

Leaving golf aside for the moment, I'd choose Roger Federer as a sporting role model, Muhammad Ali for a sporting and non-sporting role model and Nelson Mandela as a true and lasting inspiration.

I'd say that golf is about 75% mental. If your state of mind gets out of kilter, you're worse off than a tomcat floating on a log.

Thinking instead of acting is the number one golf disease.

Golf is played with the arms.

I hope I'll never get too old to want to take part in this event, and I don't think I will ever age that much.

To quit between tee and green is more habit-forming than drinking a highball before breakfast.

If you'd offered me a 69 at the start this morning I'd have been all over you!

Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemeteries.

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

Make friends with your caddie and the game will make friends with you.

Having nerves and feeling the pressure just gets you focused and gets your concentration level where it needs to be. I harness that nervous energy into a positive way.

If you really want to get better at golf, go back and take it up at a much earlier age.

Having played the Old Course many times since my first visit in 1981, I am now of the opinion it is one of the best and most beautiful tests of links golf anywhere in the world.

Never break your putter and your driver in the same round or you're dead.

I wonder who is going to finish second.

The more they made noise, the more calm I became.

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.

All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?

I won't have any competitive instincts in any sports, other than golf. I can't see being competitive in sports any more.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

If golf wasn't enjoyable and there wasn't a lot of humor and enjoyment, even though the game is so frustrating, you would wonder why you put yourself through it.

He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.

If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.

Never admit that your back goes out more than you do

What makes a great golf course is continuity and variety: right-to-left holes, left-to-right holes.

One thing I've learned over time is, if you hit a golf ball into water, it won't float.