Golf Quotes

The only time I talk on the golf course is to my caddie. And then only to complain when he gives me the wrong club.

My golf game is getting real good. Last week, I got through the windmill.

Once when I'd been in a lot of bunkers, my caddie told me he was getting blisters from raking so much.

What abandoned course is that?

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.

Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf

Remember you have to be comfortable. Golf is not a life or death situation. It's just a game and should be treated as such. Stay loose.

The world's No. 1 tennis player spends 90 percent of his time winning, while the world's No. 1 golfer spends 90 percent of his time losing. Golfers are great losers.

To be a top-class athlete, you have to train hard, you have to eat right, you have to get enough rest. I feel the way golf is going nowadays, you have to treat yourself as an athlete.

Never saw one worth a damn.

The best exercise for golfers is golfing.

If I needed advice from my caddie, he'd be hitting the shots and I'd be carrying the bag.

Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.

Guitar playing is very important to me. It's like golf to some other people; it's important to me that I play good.

I miss it, I miss it, I miss it, I make it.

Always throw your clubs ahead of you. That way you don't have to waste energy going back to pick them up.

Golf isn't a sport, it's a game. I'm not saying it's not a difficult game, with lots of mental stuff. But it's not a sport like mine. Where is the combat, the intensity of what we do?

Caddies are a breed of their own. If you shoot 66, they say, "Man, we shot 66!" But go out and shoot 77, and they say "Hell, he shot 77!"

If a caddie can help you, you don't know how to play golf.

Then Lee Trevino and Jack Nicklaus come in. I'll caddie for Jack.

I was lying ten and had a thirty-five foot putt. I whispered over my shoulder: "How does this one break?" And my caddie said, "Who cares?"

If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably be a caddie today.

Out-of-control emotions can make smart people stupid.

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why.

I see things written about the golf swing that I can't believe will work except by accident .

I do not trust doctors. They are like golfers. Every one has a different answer to your problems.

I am a millionaire today and my wife deserves all of the credit. Before I met her I was a multi-millionaire.

Enjoy the game. Happy golf is good golf.

If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.

I was swinging like a toilet door on a prawn trawler.

I expect to play golf until I am 90-even longer if anybody figures out a way to swing a club from a rocking chair.

All four days I didn't think. I just hit. Squeaky (Medlen, his caddy) said 'kill' and I killed it.

The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.

That was a great game of golf, fellers.

Doesn't it show us all that we are silly little boys or fatuous asses to think that we can play golf without making a lot of bad shots?

The ideal build for a golfer would be strong hands, big forearms, thin neck, big thighs and a flat chest. He'd look like Popeye.

Golf course architects make me sick. They can't play themselves, so they rig the courses so nobody else can play either.

Which one of you is going to be runner-up?

May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.

You don't play boxing. You really don't. You play golf, you play tennis, but you don't play boxing.

Because golf exposes the flaws of the human swing - a basically simple maneuver - it causes more self-torture than any game short of Russian roulette.

Mr. Agnew, I believe you have a slight swing in your flaw.

Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf.

It's hard to tell who's going to win this week, but it probably won't be a big, fat guy.

Rhythm is best expressed in any swing directed at a cigar stump or a dandelion head.

I don't think anywhere is there a symbiotic relationship between caddie and player like there is in golf.

Golf always makes me so damned angry.

I'd play every day if I could. It's cheaper than a shrink and there are no telephones on my golf cart.