Golf Ball Quotes

#1. I carry a golf ball to put under my feet when they get tight, and a Thera-Band for general stretching.

Jessica Ennis

#2. A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course. A lot of guys can go out and hit a golf ball, but they have no idea how to manage what they do with the ball. I've won as many golf tournaments hitting the ball badly as I have hitting the ball well.

Jack Nicklaus

#3. A woman in Great Britain has died after being hit in the back of the head by a golf ball, on the first hole. Her husband was so distraught, he only played the front nine.

Jay Leno

#4. Hitting a golf ball correctly is the most sophisticated and complicated maneuver in all of sports, with the possible exception of eating a hot dog at a ball game without getting mustard on your shirt.

Ray Fitzgerald

#5. I've never met a golfer who has never lost a golf ball. I've never met people who have fallen in love who have never had their heart broken. And I've never met someone rich who has never lost money.

Anonymous

#6. The golf ball has no sense at all, which is why it has to be given stern lectures constantly, especially during the act of putting.

Dan Jenkins

#7. Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But such is certainly not the case.

Bobby Jones

#8. It is technology. They all changed to a harder golf ball, so they gave up spinning on the greens. They all changed to longer drivers, bigger heads with hotter faces and lighter shafts. The problem is, the harder you hit it, the more control you lose.

Tiger Woods

#9. Talking to a golf ball won't do you any good, unless you do it while your opponent is teeing off.

Bruce Lansky

#10. You'd think a guy who has broken 35 bones in his body would have a high pain threshold, but mine is pretty low. I got hit in the shin with a golf ball once, and it almost brought tears to my eyes. I've had broken bones that didn't hurt as bad.

Evel Knievel

#11. Sometimes in New York, you're walking down the street and you realize there's a girl walking in front of you whose thighs you could hit a golf ball through, and maybe that makes you depressed.

Sloane Crosley

#12. Cyclists, I work with a number of cyclists. They are great athletes; they are great aerobic athletes. If you ask them to hit a baseball or golf ball, they can't do that.

Eric Heiden

#13. Addressing a golf ball would seem to be a simple matter; that is, to the uninitiated who cannot appreciate that a golf ball can hold more terrors than a spacious auditorium packed with people.

Bobby Jones

#14. I think when I was about 12 or 13, my dad started taking me out to the local golf course, and that's the first time I ever hit a golf ball. I picked it up pretty quickly, just kind of monkey-see, monkey-do. But when I was 12, golf was so slow to me. For me, it was basketball, girls and music.

Justin Timberlake

#15. In my retirement I go for a short swim at least once or twice every day. It's either that or buy a new golf ball.

Gene Perret

#16. I always like to see a person stand up to a golf ball as though he were perfectly at home in its presence.

Bobby Jones

#17. A golf ball is like a clock. Always hit it at 6 o'clock and make it go toward 12 o'clock. But make sure you're in the same time zone.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

#18. Plausible that a professional pitcher with some time to practice could throw a golf ball faster than a baseball.

Randall Munroe

#19. One thing I've learned over time is, if you hit a golf ball into water, it won't float.

Arnold Palmer

#20. When I swing at a golf ball right, my mind is blank and my body is loose as a goose.

Sam Snead

#21. Outside the golf course, I feel the pressure, and I feel what everybody else is feeling. But on the golf course, it's just the golf ball and clubs. And when I have that, it just puts a lot of pressure off of me. It just makes me very calm looking at it, yeah.

Inbee Park

#22. This new baseball is like a golf ball. I think there are going to be a lot more dents put in the wall at Fenway Park this year.

Don Zimmer

#23. The one place where I can relax is on the golf course with my teammates and buddies, assuming I'm hitting the golf ball well. If I'm not, well, that is another story.

Carson Palmer

#24. You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.

Dan Jenkins

#25. A golf ball is white, dimpled like a bishop's knees, and is the size of small mandarin oranges or those huge pills which vets blow down the throats of constipated cart-horses.

Frank Muir

#26. Golf is me and buddies out having a good time, but most of all, golf is about me and my dad. Anytime I think of golf, I think about my dad. He taught me how to hit a golf ball, and he got me playing.

Justin Timberlake

#27. You can't lose an old golf ball.

John A. Willis

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

Jack Lemmon

#29. The competition I played against was fantastic, but golf is a different game now. The courses have shrunk because the equipment has gotten better. They're hitting the ball 10 to 15 percent farther because of the changes in the golf ball.

Hollis Stacy

#30. I haven't looked for a golf ball since mulligans were free, which was a law I passed in 1995.

Dan Jenkins

#31. I know when I've been playing a lot of golf it takes me a while to get back into cricket again. It's not so much the different shape of the swings, more the fact that you are stationary when you hit a golf ball. In cricket you have to move forward or back, which is an instinctive timing thing.

Ricky Ponting

#32. By the time a man can afford to lose a golf ball, he can't hit that far.

Jacob Braude

#33. When I'm swinging well, nobody hits the golf ball any better than I do.

David Duval

#34. The most advanced medical brains in the universe have yet to discover a way for a man to relax himself, and looking at a golf ball is not the cure.

Milt Gross

#35. I hit the ball really well ... had a lot of good looks at birdie all day, it's firm but you could control your golf ball, for sure. Today I controlled my ball very well. The confidence is definitely there. I feel really good about where I'm at and going into tomorrow.

Dustin Johnson

#36. There's more tension in golf than in boxing because golfers bring it on themselves. It's silly really because it's not as if the golf ball is going to jump up and belt you on the whiskers, is it?

Henry Cooper

#37. A golf course can be a very risky place in the early evening for those who aren't aware of the dangers. Who knows when a golf ball might come flying out of nowhere?

Haruki Murakami

#38. Jenny can still suck a golf ball through a garden hose and she guns my cock like a champ since she misplaced her false teeth!

Tara Sivec

#39. You're the only one in control over your golf ball. It's not like tennis: you're hitting a shot and somebody's hitting it back at you.

Lee Westwood

#40. One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.

John Gunther

#41. He knows all the golf lingo. You know? You hit your ball, he's like "there's a golf shot. That's a golf shot." Well of course it's a golf shot; I just hit a golf ball. You don't see Gretzky skating around going "there's a hockey shot, that's a hockey shot."

Bill Engvall

#42. I'm not a golf player. I think golf and fishing are the same, but at the end of the day, you can't fry up and golf ball and dip it in tartar sauce. So I'm a fisherman.

Daymond John

#43. her sensor package could track a golf ball and hit it with a torpedo from half the solar system away." "Oh,

James S.A. Corey

#44. I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to hit a golf ball.

Dennis Quaid

#45. Beauty is Nature in perfection; circularity is its chief attribute. Behold the full moon, the enchanting golf ball, the domes of splendid temples, the huckleberry pie, the wedding ring, the circus ring, the ring for the waiter, and the "round" of drinks.

O. Henry

#46. If he slices the budget like he slices a golf ball, the nation has nothing to worry about.

Bob Hope

#47. Golf. Trying to knock a tiny ball into an even smaller hole with implements ill suited to the purpose.

Winston Churchill

#48. When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a ball game on the television.

Mackenzie Astin

#49. I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can.

Bo Jackson

#50. The actual distance a bad golfer is going to hit the ball with any club obviously depends on many factors, not the least of which is whether the ball was actually hit at all.

Leslie Nielsen

#51. Few golfers are born with the natural talent for hitting the ball, but every player is blessed with the God-given ability to throw a club.

Henry Beard

#52. I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.

Harbhajan Singh

#53. I don't believe in taking much of a divot, especially with the longer irons. You want to barely comb the grass through impact. It's the only way to catch the ball on the second groove up from the bottom of the clubface. That's where you want to make contact: on the second groove.

Moe Norman

#54. Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies.

Bobby Jones

#55. Everyone wants to be known as a great striker of the ball for some reason. Nobody wants to be called a lucky, one-putting s.o.b.

Gary Player

#56. Green synthetic practice mats are the worst thing for your golf game that I know of. You can hit six inches behind the ball and not even know it, because the ball still gets airborne. Practice nets are awful, too. Swing a weighted club instead.

Lee Trevino

#57. Just trust your instincts. There's an old saying in golf, you've studied the swing many times, and you practice and practice, but when you stand over the ball, you just have to trust your swing. And you trust it. And if you don't trust it, you'll ruin it; your brain will take over.

Clint Eastwood

#58. The hardest shot in golf is a mashie at 90 yards from the green, where the ball has to be played against an oak tree, bounces back into a sandtrap, hits a stone, bounces on the green and then rolls into the cup. That shot is so difficult I have made it only once.

Zeppo Marx

#59. I realize that's why we play golf, to hit the ball into the hole. But it is a strange feeling when you hit the shot and it actually goes in.

Hollis Stacy

#60. Follow through: The part of the swing that takes place after the ball has been hit, but before the club has been thrown.

Henry Beard

#61. I don't mind when I hit a ball in the woods. I think of it as an adventure. That's when golf really starts to get interesting.

Michelle Wie

#62. The problem with art is, it's not like the game of golf where you put the ball in the hole. There's no umpire; there's no judge. There are no rules. It's one of its problems. But it's also one of the great things about art. It becomes a question of what lasts.

Richard Prince

#63. The ball retriever is not long enough to get my putter out of the tree.

Brian Weiss

#64. The best putting advice I ever received was make sure you concentrate real hard on keeping that darn ball real low

Chi Chi Rodriguez

#65. I don't believe in luck. Not in golf, anyway. There are good bounces and bad bounces, sure, but the ball is round and so is the hole. If you find yourself in a position where you hope for luck to pull you through, you're in serious trouble.

Jack Nicklaus

#66. Out here, it's just you and the ball.

Mike Weir

#67. Golf ... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.

P.G. Wodehouse

#68. For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.

Dave Barry

#69. Got more dirt than ball. Here we go again.

Alan Shepard

#70. Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

Woodrow Wilson

#71. There was the man who seemed to be attempting to decieve his ball and lull it into a false sense of security by looking away from it and then making a lightning slash in the apparent hope of catching it off its guard.

P.G. Wodehouse

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

Charles Coody

#73. I was playing golf. I swung, missed the ball, and got a big chunk of dirt. I swung again, missed the ball, and got another big chunk of dirt. Just then, 2 ants climbed on the ball saying, "Let's get up here before we get killed!"

Henny Youngman

#74. I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

Rogers Hornsby

#75. 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.

Chuck Hogan

#76. You get no points for style when it comes to putting. It's getting the ball to drop into the cup that counts.

Laurie Auchterlonie

#77. I've lost balls in every hazard and on every course I've tried. But when I lose a ball in the ball washer, it's time to take stock.

Milt Gross

#78. Somebody once said that good conversation should be like a tennis match, with each player gracefully sending the ball back across the net; instead, most conversation is like a golf game, with each player stroking only his own ball, and waiting impatiently for the other to finish.

Sydney J. Harris

#79. Hole in One: an occurence in which a ball is hit directly from the tee into the hole in a single shot by a golfer playing alone.

Henry Beard

#80. I never kick my ball in the rough or improve my lie in a sand trap. For that I have a caddie.

Bob Hope

#81. The best part about golf is when you hit the ball long. It feels really good.

Michelle Wie

#82. Think of golf as chess. You have to think two or three moves ahead every time you hit the ball. Over every shot, you should be thinking, 'Where do I need to put this ball in order to make my next shot as easy as possible.

Gary McCord

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

Larry Nelson

#84. I could have rolled the ball up there against Musial, and he would have pulled out a golf club and hit it out.

Don Newcombe

#85. In golf, a player can step and mar the line of his adversary's putt. A player can also hit his adversary or his caddie intentionally with his ball and claim the hole - but it isn't usually done.

Charles Brown MacDonald

#86. Because of the suit I was wearing, I couldn't make a good pivot on the swing. And I had to hit the ball with one hand.

Alan Shepard

#87. I have a random array of ball markers in my bag and don't use any specific one. Many are the plastic kind you find at almost any golf course.

Matt Kuchar

#88. My ball is in a bunch of fern, A jolly place to be; An angry man is close astern- He waves his club at me. Well, let him wave-the sky is blue; Go on, old ball, we are but two-We may be down in three, Or nine-or ten-or twenty-five-It matters not; to be alive, Is good enough for me.

A.P. Herbert

#89. Hit the ball pretty solid. Haven't played a lot of golf this year, so was really unsure of what it would be like. I've been playing pretty well lately, especially hitting the ball solid.

Trent Dilfer

#90. It does look like a very good exercise. But what is the little white ball for?

Ulysses S. Grant

#91. I played a lot of baseball growing up, and I always hit better if I kept moving before the pitch instead of standing still in the batter's box. I think a waggle does the same thing in the golf swing. It keeps you relaxed and gets your body ready to hit the ball.

Jason Dufner

#92. In order to hit a good golf shot at that moment in time when you're standing over the ball, you must believe that golf shot is the most important things in your life.

Tiger Woods

#93. Forty minutes later, my hatred for field hockey was in full bloom, courtesy of Nikki. Whoever thought it was a good idea to combine Tag with wooden golf clubs and a rodent-size ball should be beaten senseless.

K.R. Conway

#94. If only I kept my eye on the ball, Looking downward as does the pro there, I might not see where it was going, at all, But there might be a chance it would go there.

Richard Armour

#95. I did not see the sense in chasing a little white ball around a field.

Calvin Coolidge

#96. I get pissed off. I simply do not understand someone who hits a ball that lands behind a tree and can look at it and say, "Well, that's golf".

Simon Hobday

#97. If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.

Vijay Singh

#98. I still swing the way I used to, but when I look up the ball is going in a different direction.

Lee Trevino

#99. Golf is more exacting than racing, cards, speculation, or matrimony. In almost all other games you pit yourself against a mortal foe; in golf it is yourself against the world: no human being stays your progress as you drive your ball over the face of the globe.

Arnold Haultain

#100. The putter looks like a bunch of nuts and bolts welded together, but the ball goes in the hole.

Julius Boros