Top 100 Golf Is Quotes
#1. Golf is a stupid game. You tee up this little ball, really this tiny ball. Then you hit it, try to find it, hit it. And the goal is to get it into a little hole placed in a hard spot.
Juli Inkster
#2. I understand golf is a game, and I've never treated it as anything else. Family is something that's very special, and so they all contributed to the room. They all contributed to what my life was, my career was.
Jack Nicklaus
#3. 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
#4. The greatest single lesson to be learned from golf is mental discipline.
Louise Suggs
#6. The reason I wrote about women's golf is because I've helped out some with the Kathy Whitworth Cup, a tournament they have in Fort Worth every year where they invite 60 of the best junior golfers in the country and even some foreign players.
Dan Jenkins
#7. My golf is so delicate, so tenuously wired together with silent inward prayers, exhortations and unstable visualizations, that the sheer pressure of an additional pair of eyes crumbles the whole rickety structure into rubble.
John Updike
#8. Golf is flexibility, and I notice more guys injured. You can overdo this conditioning.
Retief Goosen
#9. Golf is like hunting and fishing. What counts is the companionship and fellowship of friends, not what you catch or shoot.
George Archer
#10. Golf is golf. You hit the ball, you go find it. Then you hit it again.
Lon Hinkle
#11. Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
Bobby Jones
#12. The worst advice in golf is, 'Keep your head down.'
Patty Sheehan
#13. The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.
Bobby Jones
#14. Golf is a passion that will stay with me forever. That's all I know.
Vijay Singh
#15. I know the other side. I know what awful golf is.
David Duval
#16. The reason they call it 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up.
Leslie Nielsen
#17. Golf is the only sport I know of where a player pays for every mistake. A man can muff a serve in tennis, miss a strike in baseball, or throw an incomplete pass in football and still have another chance to square himself. In golf, every swing counts against you.
Lloyd Mangrum
#18. 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.
Gay Brewer
#19. 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.
Hal Linden
#21. 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
#22. A lot of people like to think that golf is a lazy man's sport. Or it's a rich man's sport, or it's a sport that they can't be involved in.
Shia Labeouf
#23. Golf is social. It brings a lot of people together.
Mia Hamm
#24. Golf is supposed to be fun, but I don't think anything is fun if you're not doing it reasonably well.
Fred Couples
#25. It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.
Bobby Jones
#26. Golf is difficult to get your personality over because you are such a bottle of concentration.
Lee Westwood
#27. 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
#29. Golf is a game in which attitude of mind counts for incomparably more than mightiness of muscle.
Arnold Haultain
#30. The best quick tip in golf is to focus on your rhythm and balance.
Hale Irwin
#31. Golf is fundamentally about being honest. I see people hit eight shots and tell me they shot five. I never say a word. It is a reminder to me of what is at stake.
Martin Sheen
#32. Find a good teacher that will keep the game fun. Work hard and don't be afraid to have success or disappointment. That is what golf is all about.
Paula Creamer
#33. Golf is not a good walk spoiled. It is becoming a good walk prohibited. Show me the common sense in this and I promise I will relent. But there is no common sense at all in the prohibition of walking.
Lorne Rubenstein
#34. Golf is the only sport that a professional can enjoy playing with his friends.
Chi Chi Rodriguez
#35. Golf is the only sport where watching the game is arguably as grueling physically as playing it.
Willie Geist
#36. 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
#37. Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.
Alistair Cooke
#38. Golf is the only opportunity that middle-aged WASPs have to dress up like a pimp.
Kinky Friedman
#39. It's been said that golf is a Zen activity. I'd argue that if golfers were practicing Zen, they wouldn't keep score.
Tom Robbins
#40. Golf is an expensive way to make yourself miserable.
Rita Mae Brown
#41. Golf is a hard game to figure. One day you will go out and slice it and shank it, hit into all the traps and miss every green. The next day you go out and, for no reason at all, you really stink.
Bob Hope
#42. Golf is evolving, every day, every shot.
Tiger Woods
#43. 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
#44. Golf is the loneliest of games, not excluding postal chess.
Peter Dobereiner
#45. Golf is not my priority. I would hope people see me as a Christian man who loved his family, who loved being in the heat of competition and sometimes succeeded at it; who understood that golf was his job and that he was very lucky to play it for a living.
Zach Johnson
#46. Golf is the only game I know where you call a foul on yourself.
Joe Torre
#47. Golf is like an 18-year-old girl with big boobs. You know it's wrong but you can't keep away from her.
Val Doonican
#48. One of the advantages bowling has over golf is that you seldom lose a bowling ball.
Don Carter
#49. Golf is a game of misses, and the winners are those who have the best misses
Kathy Whitworth
#50. Golf is like solitaire. When you cheat, you only cheat yourself.
Tony Lema
#51. With Tiger Woods, you know everyone is watching. But I think interest in women's golf is getting better too.
Yani Tseng
#52. That's what PGA Tour golf is all about. It's a partnership with the community to help people to raise money for charity and to do it using golf as a platform.
Tim Finchem
#53. Golf is a lot like life. When you make a decision, stick with it.
Byron Nelson
#54. I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.
Larry David
#56. Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result.
Tommy Armour
#57. Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
P.G. Wodehouse
#58. Golf is like 99.9 percent of my life, and then there's school. I don't get much time to go out with my friends.
Lydia Ko
#59. 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.
Rick Reilly
#60. Golf is so selfish - it's so much about how do we get better and get to the next level.
Jason Day
#62. Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
A.A. Milne
#63. One thing about golf is you don't know why you play bad and why you play good.
George Archer
#64. When people say that a certain sport is not a sport - have them play that sport and see if they can do it. Golf is one of the hardest sports you've ever played. Bowling is all about concentration, it's all about focus, it's all about aim.
Dwyane Wade
#65. A great deal of unnecessarily bad golf is played in this world.
Harry Vardon
#67. Too many people asking too many questions in tennis. Golf is better.
Ivan Lendl
#68. Golf is an indispensable adjunct to high civilisation.
Andrew Carnegie
#69. Golf is like love. One day you think you are too old and the next day you want to do it again.
Roberto De Vicenzo
#70. Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
B.C. Forbes
#71. Golf is a game in which you yell "for," shoot six, and write down five.
Paul Harvey
#72. People started coining the phrase, 'Bubba Golf,' whatever you want to call it, which I like. 'Bubba Golf' is going to be fun. I mean, why do what everybody else does? That's boring.
Bubba Watson
#73. I am relying on the theory that playing golf is just like riding a bike and that I haven't forgotten how.
Jennifer Wyatt
#74. After all, golf is only a game,' said Millicent. Women say these things without thinking. It does not mean that there is any kink in their character. They simply don't realise what they're saying.
P.G. Wodehouse
#76. The best thing about golf is ultimately what it teaches you about yourself. And the worst thing is how freakin' nervous it can make you feel.
Gabrielle Reece
#77. Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.
Samuel Johnson
#78. The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
Hunter S. Thompson
#79. Playing golf is like eating. It's something which has to come naturally.
Sam Snead
#80. Golf is a difficult game, but it's a little easier if you trust your instincts. It's too hard a game to try to play like someone else.
Nancy Lopez
#81. Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.
Celine Dion
#82. When it comes to golf, Scottish people are famously reserved, undemonstrative, difficult to impress. Golf is like church in Scotland, church like golf.
Joe Posnanski
#83. Back horses or go down to Throgmorton Street and try to take it away from the Rothschilds, and I will applaud you as a shrewd and cautious financier. But to bet at golf is pure gambling.
P.G. Wodehouse
#84. I don't like going to the mall. I'm not really like the other girls. I just like to go out on the golf course and play. Golf is fun and feels really good.
Michelle Wie
#85. Golf is not a game of great shots. It's a game of most accurate misses. The people who win make the smallest mistakes.
Gene Littler
#86. The most important shot in golf is the next one.
Ben Hogan
#87. The problem with golf is I have to deal with a humiliation factor.
George W. Bush
#88. Having a great golf swing helps under pressure, but golf is a game about scoring. It's like an artist who can get a two-inch brush at Wal-Mart for 20 cents or a fine camel-hair brush from an art store for 20 dollars. The brush doesn't matter - how the finished painting looks is what matters.
Jerry Pate
#89. Talking about golf is always boring. Playing golf can be interesting, but not the part where you try to hit the little ball; only the part where you drive the cart.
Dave Barry
#90. We are a global sport. I mean, golf is obviously played all around the world. But when you have your National Championship, of course, everybody in America is rooting for an American.
Paula Creamer
#91. Golf is the hardest game in the world. There is no way you can ever get it. Just when you think you do, the game jumps up and puts you in your place.
Ben Crenshaw
#92. I love the way the game of golf is lived and played in Scotland. I always have.
Tom Watson
#93. I came to the realization a couple months ago that I am fat. If you get tired from walking - and that's all that golf is - then you are officially fat.
Charles Barkley
#94. Golf is a nice game, but that's all. It's never going to be an exciting game to watch on TV. It's not a circus and never will be one. The audience for golf is not going to change significantly. It's always going to be people who play it, understand it, and love it.
Jack Nicklaus
#95. Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren't penalized for being on grass.
Bob Hope
#96. Golf is hugely important, as it keeps me going.
Bruce Forsyth
#97. The doctor didn't want me to play golf anymore and was worried about me fly-fishing. Golf is something I enjoy, but fly-fishing is a different thing: That's religion. Hunting is religion for me. I didn't want to give those up.
Tom Brokaw
#98. I just go out there and play the game; I get on with things. Golf is not everything in life.
Louis Oosthuizen
#99. Golf is meaningless, but it means so much.
Dennis Quaid
#100. Golf is like smoking, I have been trying to quit for years.
Brian Weiss
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