Golf Quotes

People talk about how you make team spirit - is it golf days or going out drinking together? That doesn't count. When you drink, you just tell lies to each other anyway and talk rubbish.

You don't go home and talk about the great tennis courts that you played, but you do talk about the golf courses you played.

Golf has too much walking to be a good game, and just enough game to spoil a good walk.

Goaltending is to hockey like putting is to golf. It really has no relationship to the rest of the game.

A driving range is the place where golfers go to get all the good shots out of their system.

Baffling late-life discovery: Golfers wear those awful clothes on purpose.

I realize that's why we play golf, to hit the ball into the hole. But it is a strange feeling when you hit the shot and it actually goes in.

Faldo has lost a lot of respect from players because of what he said.

Golf - a young man's vice and an old man's penance.

What I like about golf is there are no bad calls.

When the path ahead of you is uphill, surrounded by rough spots, hazards and obstacles: use a pitching wedge.

If you'd asked me at 30 where I'd be during the Masters when I was 46, I'd have pictured myself on a boat fishing, smoking a cigar, drinking a mint julep and watching it on television.

That's sort of overkill. We've had 70 years of the Ryder Cup, and it's gotten along just fine. The pendulum will swing back without making a monumental thing about it.

When the British Open is in Scotland, there's something special about it. And when it's at St. Andrews, it's even greater.

As General Eisenhower discovered, it is easier to end the Cold War or stamp out poverty than to master this devilish pastime.

People have kind of latched on with my personality and how I play golf and how I carry myself. It seems like every town we go to, I'm experiencing newer things with these types of fans.

I just didn't feel comfortable hitting a wedge. To me it's against the spirit of the game, and maybe it would have been against the spirit of a Frenchman.

Don't wish for less problems; wish for more skills.

Painting is like Golf, the fewer the strokes I take, the better the picture.

I don't think much about my physical body going off into the long, green fairways of heaven to play golf.

I have those (goals) written down, but don't want to discuss them. Right now, I just want to keep on improving.

Golf, more than most games, has a number of clichés, often successfully disguised as 'tips'. Watch out!

It's just to let the other one know it can be replaced.

That's my goal-more public courses in Mexico. I want to make sure little kids in Mexico can play golf.

The greatest single lesson to be learned from golf is mental discipline.

Golf made me feel like a loser. So I dismissed it.

When I'm in a zone, I don't think about the shot or the wind or the distance or the gallery or anything; I just pull a club and swing.

Golf has always been a game where you have to control both ends of the club.

You've got a fairly good idea as to what the questions are going to be. But how to record the best answer is another matter.

The test of a great golfer is his ability to recover from a bad start.

Women Who Seek Equality With Men Lack Ambition

Great champions learn from past experiences, whether those be good or bad. A lot of times a guy needs to be knocked down before he gets up and fights.

Uh, yeah, I do. The scythe was a little tricky at first, but—much like golf—turns out it’s all in the swing.

Golf is a game, and games are meant to be enjoyed.

If you look at eggs, you will see that each one is almost round but not quite ... Nature's way of distinguishing eggs from large golf balls.

His golf bag does not contain a full set of irons.

Sport was an obvious favourite of mine, and not only golf. I was, and still am, a big rugby fan.

I was a better player at 50 than I was at 30.

Dogbert: Scientists have discovered the gene that makes some people love golf. Dilbert: How can they tell it's the golf gene? Dogbert: It's plaid and it lies.

I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made - my swing is pretty hot.

The difference between now and when I played during my younger days is my drives are shorter and my short game is longer.

I just think the game of golf teaches you so much about yourself like who you really are and what you're made of.

Never beat yourself up, because there are plenty of people that will do it for you.

Golf is evolving, every day, every shot.

I am absolutely delighted to have come second. Who cares about winning when you can be second? I love being runner-up.

From its earliest beginnings, golf has been a gentleman's game - to be played as much for the sake of the game as for the contest.

We like to hunt and golf and drive around lost, and scratch and spit, and a whole lot of other disgusting stuff.

I used to read every golf magazine front to back; I was addicted to Golf Channel, read Rotella, read every golf book.

I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.

If you hit a hole in one every hole, you wouldn’t play golf for very long.