Golf Quotes
He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes to its maximum only to the man who has given up golf.
If you can't laugh at yourself, then how can you laugh at anybody else? I think people see the human side of you when you do that.
I admire the way golfers handle themselves. But tennis players are a lot younger, as a rule. There aren't many teenagers on the golf tour.
Water creates a neurosis in golfers. The very thought of this harmless fluid robs them of their normal powers of rational thought, turns their legs to jelly, and produces a palsy of the upper limbs.
Your confidence is the 15th club in your bag. You'd like it to be a thick headed driver. But it sometimes seems like a pretty weak little stick.
I found that golf saved me from going to the pub every day so instead I play golf with other unemployed actors. I'm a member of the Stage Golfing Society and I play golf with all sorts of people.
Some golfers blast their ball from traps, With one adroit explosion, But others, out in ten perhaps, Depend upon erosion.
If only I kept my eye on the ball, Looking downward as does the pro there, I might not see where it was going, at all, But there might be a chance it would go there.
This golfer has a wicked slice. And quite a follow-through. That's why his partner, who stood too close, Is on the green in two.
How about that amigo? I just come over to see my friends and I win ze bloody championship.
Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.
The terrible beauty is that in the brotherhood of golf we are all the same - certifiable.
I hated golf when we first started, but a big part of the training process was falling in love with this sport, so I went on tour with the UCLA Team.
Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
You can't call it a sport. You don't run, jump, you don't shoot, you don't pass. All you have to do is buy some clothes that don't match.
Boxing's a poor man's sport. We can't afford to play golf or tennis. It is what it is. It's kept so many kids off the street. It kept me off the street.
I may be the only golfer never to have broken a single putter, if you don't count the one I twisted into a loop and threw into a bush.
As a kid, I might have been psycho, I guess, but I used to throw golf balls in the trees and try and somehow make par from them. I thought that was fun.
I love to play golf, and that's my arena. And you can characterize it and describe it however you want, but I have a love and a passion for getting that ball in the hole and beating those guys.
Like one's own children, golf has an uncanny way of endearing itself to us while at the same time evoking every weakness of mind and character, no matter how well hidden.
The best designs of all are organic, evolving from the subtleties of the ground they inhabit.
There are two things you can learn by stopping your backswing at the top and checking the position of your hands; how many hands you have, and which one is wearing the glove.
After playing Ballybunion for the first time, a man would think that the game of golf originated here.
Ballybunion is the course on which many golf architects should live and play on before they build golf courses.
They throw their clubs backwards, and that's wrong. You should always throw a club ahead of you so that you don't have to walk any extra distance to get it.
Golf is a game where guts and blind devotion will always net you absolutely nothing but an ulcer.
Everybody has two swings: the one he uses during the last three holes of a tournament and the one he uses the rest of the time.
When I'm in this state, everything is pure, vividly clear. I'm in a cocoon of concentration.
The less said about the putter the better. Here is an instrument of torture, designed by Tantalus and forged in the devil's own smithy.