Golf Quotes

If I had won...all those other championships, my life might be totally different, but I didn't win. It's not going to affect my life.

It is a big adjustment but I've always loved that old saying of Jack Nicklaus: 'I retired from golf to go to work.' That sums it up for me.

Golf's the only sport that comes with a slave.

If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States.

I don't play golf. Mark Twain is golf to me.

I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour...I always felt that was too young of an age for that.

I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.

In golf, you have to stay patient and calm. On the race track you can let loose, but in golf you can't and you must be calm.

Women's golf definitely hit a bump in the road. We lost some tournaments due to a combination of things led by the downturn in the economy.

All of a sudden I'm an expert on everything. Interviewers want your opinion on golf, foreign policy and even the price of peanuts.

The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.

I wish my name was Tom Kite.

Life's too short to spend all the time in the gym. I just like to have a few beers and enjoy myself too.

If golfers can run around and crow when they make a birdie, I think it would be just as proper to lie down on the green and cry when you make a bogey.

I go to the first tee scared to death every day. The peaks do not seem to last as long as the valleys in this game.

Golf really excites me only when the course is difficult and challenging. I love competing. The pressure of competition against fine holes and fine players makes me feel very much alive.

The US Open flag eliminates a lot of players. Some players just weren't meant to win the US Open. Quite often, they know it.

Golf was my vehicle to competition and I can't play if I can't compete.

All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.

Over the first three rounds you're playing the course. In the final round, if you're in contention, you're playing the man.

If you're going to be a player people will remember, you have to win the Open at St. Andrews.

What's interesting about golf is that most athletes end up gravitating toward golf because it is such a difficult sport.

[My son] Michael came along and he played a little bit of everything. He went to Georgia Tech on a golf scholarship.

I didn't push any of my kids into golf, and they played golf because they wanted to.

Arnold's place in history will be as the man who took golf from being a game for the few to a sport for the masses. He was the catalyst who made that happen.

I always look to see what Arnold [Palmer] shot; it's a habit. We will always compete against each other.

I never worried about money, except that I knew that all I had to worry about was golf. As long as I could play, I was going to make money.

You don't think anything about age when you're playing [golf]. I mean, why would you ever think about that.

I don't play much golf anymore. I can't - if I break 80, I'm doing pretty well.

We all would like to struggle like Tiger is struggling.

Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.

There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks.

It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.

I was playing once with the King of Samoa. I asked him what his handicap was. "Six wives," he said.

Golf is the Lord's punishment for man's sins.

I go back there and all my friends are there when I have my golf tournament. They treat me the same way they did when I was growing up.

I'm a big sports guy - golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, snowboarding - and I love games.

President Clinton and President Obama played a round of golf over the weekend. President Clinton asked Obama what his handicap was, and Obama said, 'Joe Biden.'

George W. Bush loves golf because it's like the election--low score wins.

I hate golf. I do not understand how anyone can enjoy it, much less love it.

I'm just a seasonal guy. Basketball, football, baseball, boxing, golf. Give it to me all the time.

My mind is constantly in five different places, but golf is great because it forces you to focus completely and purely on what you're doing.

I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere.

I have only one goal in golf - to leave it with my sanity.

It is true that my predecessor did not object, as I do, to pictures of one's golf skill in action. But neither, on the other hand, did he ever bean a Secret Serviceman.

You look out on the driving range and it looks like snow, but it isn't, it's covered in golf balls.

The mental aspect of golf is what makes golf such a great sport.

In golf, 'close' is like the north and south rim of the Grand Canyon.

And Kate Hepburn-God, she's beautiful, God, she plays golf well, God, she can get anyone in the world on the phone, God, she knows what to do all the time, God, she wears clothes well.

You have a lot of time on these tours. As Alice Cooper said, you can either drink all day or golf.