Golf Quotes

I had very low expectations. Honestly, I think I had 11 rounds of golf the entire year in before this tournament, and I had hit balls maybe four or five times.

There are some guys out here that can really play golf, but it has not been their focus for that long.

I don't want to be a millionaire; just live like one.

Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.

Golf is a wonderful exercise. You can stand on your feet for hours, watching somebody else putt.

There are two basic rules which should never be broken. Be subtle. And don't, for God's sake, try to do business with anyone who's having a bad game.

I'm a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They're great for you limber-wise, they're great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

It's a torture chamber, if we had to play it every day I don't think I'd be playing golf.

This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, thats something a professional golfer has to handle.

The golf course is always in good shape. Paul Latshaw does a reasonable job.

By the time a man can afford to lose a golf ball, he can't hit that far.

A golf ball can stop in the fairway, rough, woods, bunker or lake. With five equally likely options, very few balls choose the fairway.

I've always said, the harder the golf course, the better I play.

How can you get tired of playing golf?

Well my dad was a pretty good player at one stage and my two older brothers played golf as well. So there were always golf clubs flying around the house.

I still have a Lydia Ko-signed golf ball in my sock drawer that I'll keep for a while.

In order to hit a good golf shot at that moment in time when you're standing over the ball, you must believe that golf shot is the most important things in your life.

There are more 'Don'ts' in golf than there are in any other avocation in life.

Timing is everything in life and in golf.

Your worst putt will usually be as good as your best chip.

All the things that I have derived either directly or indirectly through the game of golf are things I owe a great deal to the game and to the people who support the game.

I think I've heard somebody say that I was a well-dressed golfer. I guess that has something to do with the fact that a lot of people who play golf don't dress very well.

First time I met Jack [Nicholas ] I had heard about his golf and prowess - I was playing in the Ohio amateur.

Some of us are fortunate enough to play championship golf, but this isn't essential in the enjoyment of the game.

As if we don't have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament.

I'm not very good at practice. But if you tell yourself you love the hole and love hitting it on the fairway, it's a big difference.

Golf was my life. I didn't want to give it up. So I went to work!

Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.

I always said you have to be really smart or really dumb to play this game well. I just don't know where I fit in.

Think ahead. Golf is a next-shot game.

I used to play golf with a guy who cheated so badly that he once had a hole in one and wrote down zero on the scorecard.

I once showed Pat Bradley my swing and said, 'What do I do next?' Pat replied, 'Wait till the pain dies down.'

US President Gerald Ford's golf was so bad we thought he was a 'Hitman for the PGA!

Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.

Well, I'm glad we don't have to play in the shade.

I don't go out and get arrested anymore. The most extravagant thing I do these days is play golf. I'm like an old man.

When I married Wilnelia, one of the first things I wanted to know about Puerto Rico was the quality of the golf courses.

It's much easier to have one swing thought than many.

McIlroy's taken the standard of golf to one level beyond where Tiger was.

Every golfer has at least 14 enemies: his clubs.

There have been so many great moments in golf that you even forget some of them.

That's the nature of sport, if you look at how Europe has performed they have found a way to win but golf is cyclical and there's not much between the teams.

The fact is all golfers are equipment junkies and professional golfers are the worst of the lot. They'll do anything to find the perfect putter even though they'll insist no such instrument exists.

You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience.

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

I found out retirement means playing golf, or I don't know what the hell it means. But to me, retirement means doing what you have fun doing.

I enjoy playing it every time I step on the course.

Golf is a particularly severe strain upon the amiability of the average person's temper, and in no other game, except bridge, is serenity of disposition so essential.

Arnie, you're going to have to buy a bigger jet.