Golf Quotes

The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top.

Half of golf is fun; the other half is putting.

I asked my priest if it was a sin to play golf on Sunday. And he said, "It's a sin for you to play anytime."

Golf giveth and golf taketh away. But it taketh away a hell of a lot more than it giveth.

Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.

Golf is like love. One day you think you are too old and the next day you want to do it again.

A bad attitude is worse than a bad swing.

The mind messes up more shots than the body.

If you ever feel sorry for somebody on a golf course, you better go home. If you don't kill them, they'll kill you.

Every golfer can expect to have four bad shots in a round and when you do, just put them out of your mind. This, of course is hard to do when you've had them and you're not even off the first tee.

Golf and women are a lot alike. You know you are not going to wind up with anything but grief, but you can't resist the impulse.

The difference between golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.

The older I get, the better I was.

I've not given up hope the belly-putter will be banned. The R and A and the USGA are looking at it right now.

I like to play snooker, golf as well.

Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you.

Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested.

John certainly gives it a good hit, doesn't he? My Sunday best is a Wednesday afternoon compared to him.

You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life.

If I had ever been set down in any one place and told I was to play there, and nowhere else, for the rest of my life, I should have chosen the Old Course at St. Andrews.

It is always disillusioning to weigh your fish and measure your golf drives. Smart men estimate them.

Ask yourself how many shots you would have saved if you always developed a strategy before you hit, always played within your capabilities, never lost you temper, and never got down on yourself.

There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.

Nothing goes down slower than a golf handicap.

Nothing dissects a man in public quite like golf.

Two things I take very seriously in life. My golf game and my relationship with God. Neither one is simple

Your final goal is to convert your athletic swing to pure instinct rather than conscious thought.

Don't let the bad shots get to you. Don't let yourself become angry. The true scramblers are thick-skinned. And they always beat the whiners.

A tap-in is a putt that is short enough to be missed one-handed.

You don't have the game you played last year or last week. You only have today's game. It may be far from your best, but that's all you've got. Harden your heart and make the best of it.

We learn so many things from golf: how to suffer, for instance.

Be decisive. A wrong decision is generally less disastrous than indecision.

Golf's a funny game. You can be playing poorly and then go and win a tournament.

The more I practice, the luckier I get.

It isn't the hours that you put in at practice that count. It's the way you spend those minutes.

Golf is a game that needlessly prolongs the lives of some of our most useless citizens.

Golf is a non-violent game played violently from within.

Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life not to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy.

Obviously a deer on the fairway has seen you tee off before and knows that the safest place to be when you play is right down the middle.

The fun you get from golf is in direct ratio to the effort you don't put into it.

My handicap? Woods and irons.

They call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken.

I don't enjoy playing video golf because there is nothing to throw.

I didn't miss the putt. I made the putt. The ball missed the hole.

The difference between a sand trap and water hazard is the difference between a car crash and an airplane crash. You have a chance of recovering from a car crash.

Through the ball we are all the same. We just have different ways of getting it there.

There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park-like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand.

I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis tournaments.

If I can hit a curveball, why can't I hit a ball that is standing still on a course?

You know the way I play golf, it's a good I do these things for charities.