Top 29 Golf Is Mental Quotes

#1. Why creeds and prayers and mackintoshes? when, thought Clarissa, that's the miracle, that's the mystery; that old lady, she meant, whom she could see going from chest of drawers to dressing-table.

Virginia Woolf

#2. I'm the type of person who always has to be making something.

Brian Hodge

#3. The reason the United States is not so likely to invade Iran is precisely because of the lessons learned from Iraq. And conversely, the Iranian push towards nuclear capability is calculated to deter invasions like the kind deposing Saddam Husain.

Steven Pinker

#4. It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.

Lee Westwood

#5. Visualization. It may be the most important part of your mental package.

Ray Floyd

#6. It's time to press the Reset button! Reset the vibration. Change your words to change the vibration.

Michael Losier

#7. The mental aspect of golf is what makes golf such a great sport.

Johnny Miller

#8. I always had plenty of ideas. I didn't exactly have them. They grew - little by little, a half an idea at a time. First, part of a phrase and then a person to go with it. After a person, then a little corner of a place for the person to be in.

Carol Emshwiller

#9. Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.

Dan Jenkins

#10. Golf at its measured pace permits an electric excess of mental activity.

John Updike

#11. If you are going to talk negative about a place, you're almost throwing yourself out to begin with because golf is a mental game.

Jordan Spieth

#12. Desire is often the greatest poison.

Karen Azinger

#13. Who is this repulsive dwarf?

Kim Hunter

#14. Most of the difficult things in golf are mental, not physical. Are subjective, not objective. Are the created phantasms of the mind, not the veritable realities of the course.

Arnold Haultain

#15. The greatest single lesson to be learned from golf is mental discipline.

Louise Suggs

#16. I'd say that golf is about 75% mental. If your state of mind gets out of kilter, you're worse off than a tomcat floating on a log.

Sam Snead

#17. A golfer should never make a mental mistake because the ball is just sitting there waiting for you to hit it.

Tiger Woods

#18. Dr. Parent has been a great influence on my mental game. ZEN GOLF is the best book at connecting golf and the mind together. It's for everyone, it really helps, and you're really going to enjoy it.

Vijay Singh

#19. It provides a different type of element and mental strain athletes love. That's what makes the game of golf so special.

Tiger Woods

#20. The whole secret to mastering the game of golf - and this applies to the beginner as well as the pro - is to cultivate a mental approach to the game that will enable you to shrug off the bad days, keep patient and know in your heart that sooner or later you will be back on top.

Arnold Palmer

#21. I've heard people say putting is 50 percent technique and 50 percent mental. I really believe it is 50 percent technique and 90 percent positive thinking, see, but that adds up to 140 percent, which is why nobody is 100 percent sure how to putt.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

#22. Your silent rebellion is unstoppable.

Strider Marcus Jones

#23. Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment.

Jon Meacham

#24. Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course

Bobby Jones

#25. 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?

Conor McGregor

#26. No man can claim to be free in real terms unless he is fully in control of his own destiny!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#27. He is the same, but everything is different.

John Fowles

#28. Golf is a mental disorder.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#29. After you have the basics down it's all mental.

Ken Venturi

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