Golf Quotes
Whenever I play with him , I usually try to make it a foursome - the President, myself, a paramedic and a faith healer.
Golf is recognized as one of the more difficult games to play or teach. One reason for this is that each person necessarily plays by feel, and a feel is almost impossible to describe.
There are three things in the world that he held in the smallest esteem - slugs, poets and caddies with hiccups.
Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.
I bleed all the time. I play golf and stuff, so there's always something, nicks and stuff, here and there.
Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.
Every golfer should come to the first tee with fourteen clubs, a dozen balls, a handful of tees, and at least one great golf story
When you make a mistake, the ocean gives you an instant reminder. You get punished. If golf clubs could shock you every time you hit the ball wrong, we'd probably learn how to play golf pretty well.
Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference.
Trouble shots are surprisingly easy if you activate your imagination. You simply must be able to imagine exactly what flight the ball will take before you can play any shot well.
When Nicklaus plays wells well, he wins. When he plays badly, he finishes second. When he plays terribly, he finishes third.
The object of a bunker or trap is not only to punish a physical mistake, to punish lack of control, but also to punish pride and egotism.
It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.
Nine holes of golf will take you one-and-a-half, two hours. I run in 20 minutes, I feel better off. So the cost benefit made me drop golf.
Golf is fluid. It's always changing. It's always evolving. First of all, you never master it.
A golfer should never make a mental mistake because the ball is just sitting there waiting for you to hit it.
The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.
Golf took young kids like Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan and myself out of the caddie ranks and gave us money and a little bit of fame and let us live in the tall cotton.
If you can't enjoy the time between golf shots, then you are going to have a pretty difficult life because most of you life is the time spent in-between.
I don't have a life, I really don't. I'm as close to a nun as you can be without the little hat. I'm a golf nun.
You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say that I'd rather have won the U.S. Open Golf Tournament.
Never bet with anyone you meet on the first tee who has a deep suntan, a 1-iron in his bag, and squinty eyes.
I played golf... I did not get a hole in one, but I did hit a guy. That's way more satisfying.
The life of a professional golfer is precarious at best. Win, and they carry you to the clubhouse on their shoulders. Lose, and you pay the caddies in the dark.
Everybody teaches a system. I just try to shoot where I'm aiming. I play by sight and feel not by technical thoughts.
I worked at a hospital for a week. And at a golf course when I was in college at Kansas for about a week. The tips weren't good so I quit.
I shot a wild elephant in Africa thirty yards from me, and it didn't hit the ground until it was right at my feet. I wasn't a bit scared. But a four foot putt scares me to death.
