Golf Quotes

I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf.

The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.

You can always spot the employee playing golf with his boss. He's the fellow who makes a hole in one and says, "oops!"

I'm not a golf player. I think golf and fishing are the same, but at the end of the day, you can't fry up and golf ball and dip it in tartar sauce. So I'm a fisherman.

I get way more nervous playing golf in front of 500 people than being on stage in front of 20,000 people.

When I swing at a golf ball right, my mind is blank and my body is loose as a goose.

The only thing I fear on a golf course is lightning...and Ben Hogan.

Being a Scotsman, I am naturally opposed to water in its undiluted state.

Every rock'n'roll band I know, guys with long hair and tattoos, plays golf now.

Ron Syriac, a golf writer and friend, was quoted as saying, "Annika is no longer a female golfer. She's a golfer." That's truly all I ever aspired to be.

I may go for it or I may not. It all depends on what I elect to do on my backswing.

You win all the Tucsons, all the Kemps, all the Iron City Opens you can, nobody remembers. You win a Masters, nobody ever forgets

The last time I played golf with President Ford he hit a birdie. And an eagle, a moose, an elk, an aardvark...

I've been playing the game so long that my handicap is in Roman numerals.

Arnold Palmer is the biggest crowd pleaser since the invention of the portable sanitary facility.

On one hole, I hit an alligator so hard, he's now my golf bag.

It breaks towards the center of the earth when it is above the hole.

The arc of your swing doesn't have a thing to do with the size of your heart.

There is only one categorical imperative in golf, and that is to hit the ball. There are no minor absolutes.

I am very active, ... I like to ride horses. I golf. I perform onstage. I am a madman onstage.

Forty-one rules aren't so many - St. Benedict had 73 to keep the brethren on the straight and narrow.

I like golf because you can be really terrible at it, and still not look much dorkier than anybody else.

I think O.J. protests too much. Not only did he say he didn't carve the holiday turkey, but he was in the back yard practicing his golf swing the whole time.

Golf is a bloodless sport-if you don't count ulcers.

I'll be glad to leave here. I feel like eating palm trees. I don't like this place. It's for people with arthritis. They come here to play golf and to die.

Very few blacks will take up golf until the requirement for plaid pants is dropped.

Every golfer has a little monster in him. It's just that type of sport.

I call my putter 'Sweet Charity' because it covers such a multitude of sins from tee to green.

Golf is an arrogant, elitist game that takes up entirely too much space in this country.

There are three types of golf: golf, tournament golf and Major championship golf.

I take golf trips with my brother or with friends. We usually go to Pebble or Bandon Dunes. One year we went to Hawaii.

New Zealand has a great reputation in America for golf.

One of the worst mistakes you can make in golf is trying to force the game.

Golf inflicts more pain than any other sport. If you're the sort of person whose self-worth is tied up in how you play, golf will cut you to the core of who you are.

Golfers are genuinely courteous in a discourteous world. Show me a guest on The Jerry Springer Show who's a golfer.

There was clearly great charm and worth in a sport so quaintly perverse in its basic instructions. Hit down to make the ball rise. Swing easy to make it go far. Finish high to make it go straight.

In no other sport must the spectator move.

Swing easy and hit hard.

My butterflies are still going strong. I just hope they are flying in formation.

Actually, my plan was to be 20-under par after two days but it didn't work

Self-love is a big part of golf.

I don't know the traffic regulations of every city I get to either, but I manage to drive through without being arrested.

I love nothing more than being in the last group on Sunday at the Masters. It's the greatest thing in professional golf.

Golf is like 99.9 percent of my life, and then there's school. I don't get much time to go out with my friends.

You need a fantastic memory in this game to remember the great shots and a very short memory to forget the bad ones.

Jimmy Fallon and I play regularly at the Bayonne Golf Club in Jersey. He's eighteen holes of fun. Any time we play he has moments of brilliance, but also moments of utter catastrophe.

The best part about golf is when you hit the ball long. It feels really good.

I've lost balls in every hazard and on every course I've tried. But when I lose a ball in the ball washer, it's time to take stock.

I try to keep my mind active. I'm a solitaire and puzzle addict. I exercise religiously. I don't do many things religiously and I've taken up golf to have something to do when I have nothing to do.

I never taught my girls to play golf; they all played softball