Golf Quotes

The holes are numbered.

[Elizabeth Moon's] antagonists are always evil moustache-twirlers. She could write a book about a golf open and the main rival to the hero would turn out to have clubs made from compressed kittens.

Using TrackMan is very important in the development of your golf game because it gives you such good data on what your golf swing is doing and where it needs to go.

President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner played golf this weekend. Obama’s handicap is Joe Biden.

Who watches golf on TV? Who calls eight friends over and gets a keg of beer? Landscapers, I guess. They sit around the TV, yelling, "Will you look at that golf path?Pure pea gravel."

Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.

Sam Snead was born with a natural ability to keep his bar bills as low as his golf scores.

Magellan went around the world in 1521, which is not too many strokes when you consider the distance.

Golf is the only game I know where you call a foul on yourself.

The rules are simple and easily understood by anyone who has once seen the game, but to the totally uninitiated they appear to be hopelessly unintelligible.

I'm a huge car guy, I cannot wait to see it [Ferrari World]. I hear there is also unbelievable golf which I'd like to sample and I'm looking forward to seeing what the gym facilities are like

Always remember that however good you may be, the game is your master.

The muttered hint, "Remember, you have a stroke here," freezes my joints like a blast from Siberia.

I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it.

I love the house that I've been living in for over 40 years. I really am a homebody and I still love to play golf.

I played so bad, I got a get-well card from the IRS.

For me, 'choking' is just another term in golf.

The putter looks like a bunch of nuts and bolts welded together, but the ball goes in the hole.

Retire to what? I'm a golfer and a fisherman. I've got no place to retire to.

I think I was given a gift to play golf and to be mentally strong

My body is here, but my mind has already teed off.

Golf is a diabolical game. It's easy to make fun of something that's so bizarre, so painful, so humiliating... yet so joyous.

All of us have an 'inner clock,' a certain pace at which we function most comfortably and effectively.

There's not much pressure on the golf Tour. Walking to the first tee is in no way comparable to walking through the jungle in combat

The last time I had this much fun was a root-canal operation.

It is impossible to outplay an opponent you can't outthink.

At first a golfer excuses a dismal performance by claiming bad lies. With experience, he covers up with better ones.

I got no pride on the hole. It's a par-5 and I play it that way. A four is a birdie.

I'm hitting the driver so good I gotta dial the operator for long distance after I hit it.

I adore the game of golf. I won't ever retire.

I'm a golfer - not an athlete.

Those who the gods seek to destroy first, learn how to play golf.

The actual distance a bad golfer is going to hit the ball with any club obviously depends on many factors, not the least of which is whether the ball was actually hit at all.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.

The amateur has an infectious, contagious enthusiasm for golf and life.

When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a ball game on the television.

Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.

Hit it hard. It will land somewhere.

Forget the last shot. It takes so long to accept that you can't always replicate your swing. The only thing you can control is your attitude toward the next shot.

People ask me, 'Would you ever want to play professional golf?' And I'm like, 'No. No, no, no, no. Just because I can hit a good shot every now and then doesn't make me a pro.'

I still play hockey every now and then, and I still golf. But my biggest exercise is walking my big dog in the park every day.

All I want to do is do my shows and play golf.

Golf is the only game that pits the player against an opponent, the weather, the minutest details of a large chunk of local topography and his own nervous system, all at the same time.

If I can raise more money for charities, or get more Canadian kids to play golf, the green jacket will mean even more.

Bad Sausage and five bogeys will give you a stomach ache every time.

Golf is a difficult game, but it's a little easier if you trust your instincts. It's too hard a game to try to play like someone else.

The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.

If anything, more kids that want to get good at golf will get fine-tuned. It's factual. It's science, how to build a golfer. I think that's huge.

The basic philosophy behind [switch putting] is you always want a hook putt. So for a left-to-right breaking putt, you're going to want to hit it left-handed and vice versa.

"After all, golf is only a game", said Millicent. Women say these things without thinking. It does not mean that there is any kink in their character. They simply don't realise what they are saying.