Golf Quotes

Hitting the ball is the fun part of it, but the fewer times you hit the ball the more fun you have.

My handicap? Woods and irons.

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

Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around.

Mary had a little putt, she needed it for par. Mary has a second putt...the first one went too far!

Golf's three ugliest words: still your shot.

Golf is just a game - and an idiotic game most of the time.

No golfer can ever become too good to practice.

My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.

It is more satisfying to be a bad player at golf. The worse you play, the better you remember the occasional good shot.

Go play golf. Go to the golf course. Hit the ball. Find the ball. Repeat until the ball is in the hole. Have fun. The end.

Golf is a game you can never get too good at. You can improve, but you can never get to where you master the game.

It's so bad I could putt off a tabletop and still leave the ball halfway down the leg.

I used to think that elder love, if it even existed, was confined to rocking chairs or golf carts, that it had to be a dull business because of the physical limitations of age.

I never played a perfect 18 holes. There is no such thing. I expect to make at least seven mistakes a round. Therefore, when I make a bad shot, I don't worry about it. It is just one of the seven.

Golf is like a chain. You always have to work on the weakest links.

A strong mind is one of the key components that separates the great from the good.

Yeah, after each of my downhill putts.

If you play golf, you are my friend.

He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie.

The better you putt, the bolder you play.

A good player who is a great putter is a match for any golfer. A great hitter who cannot putt is a match for no one.

They say I get into too many bunkers. But is no problem. I am the best bunker player.

When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.

Golf isn't like other sports where you can take a player out if he's having a bad day. You have to play the whole game.

Golf has probably kept more people sane than psychiatrists have.

There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

The right way to play golf is to go up and hit the bloody thing.

A good golf course makes you want to play so badly that you hardly have the time to change your shoes.

I would rather be of clear mind and decision with the wrong club than with an unclear mind and the right club.

While playing golf today, I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Once you play a tournament, you're playing against the golf course, you're playing against yourself and trying to do the best you can.

In my opinion, no young player can develop his or her game to its highest potential if he or she rides around the course in a golf cart.

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.

No matter how poorly you play, there is always someone you can beat. No matter how well you play, there is always someone who can beat you.

The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I shot the happiest 83 of my life.

I never missed a putt in my mind.

If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.

To me, the most unhappy people in the world are the people ... in Palm Beach- Going to parties every night. Playing golf every afternoon, then bridge. [They have] no purpose.

Be brave if you lose and meek if you win.

Like life, golf can be humbling. However, little good comes from brooding about mistakes we've made. The next shot, in golf or in life, is the big one.

The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.

Talent is something you are born with, and a skill is something you develop. 99% of what you need to succeed in golf are skills

To play well you must feel tranquil and at peace. I have never been troubled by nerves in golf because I felt I had nothing to lose and everything to gain.

The greatest thing about golf, there's no end to it unless you're dead. You just go from here to the Senior Tour.

To me, the [British] Open is the tournament I would come to if I had to leave a month before and swim over.

Golf is a game of coordination, rhythm, and grace; women have these to a high degree.

My dad's method in his madness was to try every sport and then observe what I liked. I played football, tennis, golf, cricket but I loved my snooker.

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.