Golf Quotes

The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win.

Forget your opponents; always play against par.

I'm going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money-winners list.

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

Focus on remedies, not faults.

I'd like to see the fairways more narrow. Then everybody would have to play from the rough, not just me.

If there is one thing I have learned during my years as a professional, it is that the only thing constant about golf is its inconstancy.

In golf your strengths and weaknesses will always be there. If you could improve your weaknesses, you would improve your game. The irony is that people prefer to practice their strengths.

I will just put four or five extra packs of cigarettes in my bag and I will be fine.

A lot of my buddies also played golf, but when it came to going to the beach or on the boat and chasing girls, they usually went that way and I went to the golf course.

The most important shot in golf is the next one.

Golf tips are like aspirin. One may do you good, but if you swallow the whole bottle you will be lucky to survive.

The older I get, the better I used to be.

In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf.

I'm not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they'd come up sliced.

It's nice to worry about playing golf and not all the other stuff.

The woods are full of long drivers.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

The only way I'll ever make the Ryder Cup team is when I become captain; then I can name myself to the team.

I miss. I miss. I miss. I make.

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.

Never concede the putt that beats you.

Exercise? I get it on the golf course. When I see my friends collapse, I run for the paramedics.

If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.

For this game you need, above all things, to be in a tranquil frame of mind.

I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches.

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.

Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.

There are two things you can do with your head down - play golf and pray.

You don't know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two bucks in your pocket.

I get as much fun as the next man from whaling the ball as hard as I can and catching it squarely on the button. But from sad experience I learned not to try this in a round that meant anything.

Go out and have fun. Golf is a game for everyone, not just for the talented few.

The most successful way to play golf is the easiest way.

Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.

A hole in one is amazing when you think of the different universes this white mass of molecules has to pass through on its way to the hole.

I am decidedly unfriendly during a golf game, from the first hole to the last.

I mean, I can actually say goodbye to the game of golf, never hit another golf shot the rest of my life and I'd be happy because I can get back in life without any rotation.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.

You know what they say about big hitters...the woods are full of them.

Some golfers fantasize about playing in a foursome with Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Sam Snead. The way I hit I'd rather play in a foursome with Helen Keller, Ray Charles, and Stevie Wonder.

Life is full of many minor annoyances, and few matters of real consequence.

Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club.

I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance my left ear is from my right.

There is an old saying: if a man comes home with sand in his cuffs and cockleburs in his pants, don't ask him what he shot.

Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money.

A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying.

People started coining the phrase, 'Bubba Golf,' whatever you want to call it, which I like. 'Bubba Golf' is going to be fun. I mean, why do what everybody else does? That's boring.

He hits the ball 130 yards and his jewelry goes 150.

There are no absolutes in golf. Golf is such an individual game, and no two people swing alike.