Top 100 Golf Playing Quotes
#1. I like to have a sense of accomplishment through work. I'm busy golfing and attending activities, but I think of holding a meeting as playing golf. I think my approach is very good. I don't feel I lose a lot of fun things in life even though I am busy all day.
Liang Wengen
#2. I was playing cowboys and Indians in the trees, and then I started hitting the golf club with clubs father sawed off for me, and I began playing right here with my father.
Arnold Palmer
#3. I started playing golf when I was a kid, because across the street from where we lived there was a little nine-hole golf course where my father worked.
Lewis Black
#4. - But we keep on going, he continued, fostering all kinds of crazy hopes. To redeem the lost, some sliver of personal revelation. It's an addiction, like playing the slots, or a game of golf.
Patti Smith
#5. There's always motivation coming into Majors. If you can't get up and get excited to win one of these, then you probably shouldn't be playing golf.
Jason Dufner
#6. I've been in some seriously bad places playing golf and it's just part of the game. You're going to hit bad shots, you're going to be in bad spots, and each course, when you learn it, you learn where not to go.
Tiger Woods
#7. I wore that same shirt yesterday playing golf. There goes the Nike account.
Leslie Nielsen
#8. When I first came on tour, I was playing for money. Now I'm playing to win golf tournaments and the money is more than I ever dreamed I could make.
Annika Sorenstam
#9. Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.
Robert Redford
#10. When I first started playing golf, I was heavily into softball and basketball.
Paula Creamer
#11. I am very proud of the fact I do not cheat when I'm playing golf.
Barack Obama
#12. I enjoy coming to Scotland, and my favourite memory has to be my first Open at Carnoustie. Coming over from a small town and playing in something so big to golf and y'all.
Boo Weekley
#13. 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
#14. I have been an avid reader of 'Golf Digest' ever since I started playing this great game.
Paula Creamer
#15. There were some summers when every boy in Ayrshire seemed to be playing golf, and my dad taught me. But he was a terrible teacher - of everything. Learning to drive with him almost killed me. He was the world's most impatient man - awful short fuse.
John Niven
#17. Playing on the PGA Tour and playing professional golf, I think it's what everyone has dreamed of doing - all the guys who are out here. I'm just happy to be able to call this a job, if you want to call it a job.
Rickie Fowler
#18. Polo is like playing golf with a saddle, and there are a lot of moving parts.
Joel Edgerton
#19. 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
#20. It is a law of nature that everybody plays a hole badly when playing through.
Bernard Darwin
#21. First time I met Jack [Nicholas ] I had heard about his golf and prowess - I was playing in the Ohio amateur.
Arnold Palmer
#22. It's up to the captain. I certainly feel my golf is worthy of playing in the Ryder Cup. But I'm not sure I'm on the radar screen of Paul McGinley.
Bernhard Langer
#23. If I ever make a hole in one, A thrill that I've never known, I won't be believed and I'll have no fun, For I'm sure to be playing alone.
Richard Armour
#24. When I'm not acting, I'm playing golf. I'm pretty passionate about it.
Lucas Black
#25. I've always said it: I don't want to be the only Columbian playing on the PGA Tour, so, guys, just play some good golf and come join me here.
Camilo Villegas
#26. Show me a man who is a good loser and I'll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss.
James Patrick Murray
#27. I was detained a couple of times but that was for not handing in homework because I was playing golf or not present because I was playing golf. There was a theme evolving.
Rory McIlroy
#28. I definitely have an eye on doing more work in features and playing different characters, but I am also a big fan of going on vacation and playing golf and going to the beach. With anything, it's about finding the balance.
Bailey Chase
#29. 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.
Jack Nicklaus
#30. I enjoy playing golf, but no, I don't think golf helps driving. It does take my mind away from driving, though; every time I play golf, I don't think about Formula 1.
Heikki Kovalainen
#31. When things go right and you test properly and you find equipment that's better than what you were playing, then you can do some pretty neat things on the golf course.
Tiger Woods
#32. I enjoy playing it every time I step on the course.
Dustin Johnson
#33. Dennis Murray is a wonderful Golf Professional who is personable and skillful as an instructor. Dennis helped me work on my golf swing for a full week back in the 80's when I was still playing the PGA Tour. His instruction was great and helped my game very much.
Jerry Pate
#34. It's a torture chamber, if we had to play it every day I don't think I'd be playing golf.
Ian Woosnam
#35. Playing golf is not hot work. Cutting sugar cane for a dollar a day - that's hot work. Hotter than my first wrist watch.
Chi Chi Rodriguez
#36. Over the first three rounds you're playing the course. In the final round, if you're in contention, you're playing the man.
Jack Nicklaus
#37. Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
Thomas A. Edison
#38. By the time I retire, I will have fought the best. I will have made my money. Maybe I'll be a boxing commentator. I'll go back to school, definitely. I already have a plan. My life's set. I'll be on an island, married, playing golf in the sun. That will be my life.
Oscar De La Hoya
#39. If you let it, the Masters will play you instead of you playing it. Augusta National can pamper you right off the bottom of the leader board. Pampered before and after your round, but mentally and emotionally pulverized during them - that's the formula.
Joe Inman
#40. I think travel is probably the downside of playing professional golf, but you've got to do it.
Karrie Webb
#41. Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.
Abba Eban
#42. 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
#43. Playing golf is like going to a strip joint. After 18 holes you are tired and most of your balls are missing.
Tim Allen
#44. I'm just more into playing golf. It's a great thing.
Kenny G
#45. They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why.
Alistair Cooke
#46. I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.
Rafael Nadal
#47. I suppose I could think of a lot of things to say about the fact that I still play. But I don't really need to. I can tell you this, that I enjoy it. I still enjoy it. I like to get out in the air and I like to walk and I like to do the things that are involved in playing golf.
Arnold Palmer
#48. If you think golf is relaxing, you're not playing it right.
Bob Hope
#49. There is one thing in this world that is dumber than playing golf. That is watching someone else playing golf. What do you actually get to see? Thirty-seven guys in polyester slacks squinting at the sun. Doesn't that set your blood racing?
Peter Andrews
#50. The worse you're performing, the more you must work mentally and emotionally. The greatest and toughest art in golf is "playing badly well." All the true greats have been masters at it.
Jack Nicklaus
#51. Some golfers fantasize about playing in a foursome with Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Sam Snead. The way I hit I'd rather play in a foursome with Helen Keller, Ray Charles, and Stevie Wonder.
Bruce Lansky
#52. You don't think anything about age when you're playing [golf]. I mean, why would you ever think about that.
Jack Nicklaus
#53. I did not want to turn to playing golf because golf is about as much exercise as shuffling cards.
Bill Cosby
#54. I prefer to do cable TV because it allows you the time to do other things. I definitely have an eye on doing more work in features and playing different characters, but I am also a big fan of going on vacation and playing golf and going to the beach.
Bailey Chase
#55. Guitar playing is very important to me. It's like golf to some other people; it's important to me that I play good.
Merle Haggard
#56. I feel more strongly than ever about this. I would like the professional game freed of golf carts. Golf is a physical game. If we are playing competitive professional golf, we should walk. When I can't walk 18 holes, I'll pack it in.
Arnold Palmer
#57. I don't enjoy playing video golf because there is nothing to throw.
Paul Azinger
#58. I have a project at HBO and one at the Family Channel coming that are being looked at. Aside from that I am not doing much more than playing golf and some skiing.
Gil Gerard
#59. Instead of playing with army men or whatever, I played golf, like for hours every day.
Bubba Watson
#60. I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
Jack Nicklaus
#61. I was asked by a golfer how to lower his scores. I replied start playing 9 holes instead of 18. I worked for me, it cut my scores in half.
Brian Weiss
#62. My kids have grown up knowing nothing other than me being gone all the time and playing in golf tournaments. That's what they know.
Stewart Cink
#63. It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
Robert Wilson Lynd
#65. When I was a little girl in Savannah playing, there were never enough hours in the day or holes on the golf course. I just loved the game so much.
Hollis Stacy
#66. I get way more nervous playing golf in front of 500 people than being on stage in front of 20,000 people.
Justin Timberlake
#67. I love getting up to my folks' house and playing golf with Dad. He's very involved with my off-course ventures, and I talk to him every third day.
Matt Kuchar
#68. I really enjoy playing 'Tiger Woods' on the Wii, and you can set the levels to easy, medium, or hard, so I think it's definitely a good way for kids to learn the motion of a golf swing if they want to get into the sport. It makes it more fun for them as well.
Rory McIlroy
#69. You can win tournaments when you're mechanical, but golf is a game of emotion and adjustment. If you're not aware of what's happening to your mind and your body when you're playing, you'll never be able to be the very best you can be.
Jack Nicklaus
#70. No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why golf is the greatest of games. You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
Bobby Jones
#71. I don't feel badly about that. There's a lot of energy on the golf course. The guys are playing great. I like the pairings in the afternoon. I'm going to take what we've got.
Hal Sutton
#72. If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.
Shaquille O'Neal
#73. Nothing impresses the ladies like a clean, pressed pair of khakis and a large pattern shirt featuring either classic cars, mojitos or men playing golf.
Tim Heidecker
#74. It's harder to score well in a slow round. The tendency is to overthink shots while you're waiting and become mentally exhausted. Instead, chat with your playing partners about anything but golf. Concentrate on each shot for no more than a minute. You'll stay fresh.
Rickie Fowler
#75. Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.
Winston Churchill
#76. I just enjoy playing in wind, grew up in it, and it makes the golf a bit more fun.
Louis Oosthuizen
#77. It's nice to worry about playing golf and not all the other stuff.
John Daly
#78. My parents lived by Rancho Park. And my mom, later in life, got into playing golf. She and her male cronies would get up at five in the morning and sneak onto the back nine. I kind of just started getting into it. For a long time, I was really puzzled by why people liked it.
Kim Gordon
#79. For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.
Dave Barry
#80. I would say that I bought the land under which Trump Tower sits while playing golf.
Donald Trump
#81. My biggest hobby is playing golf, which I really enjoy. Now when I am lying in bed at night, unable to sleep, I find myself thinking about my golf swing. I'm also involved in the Tampa Bay chapter of First Tee.
Vinny Testaverde
#82. The interesting thing is that everyone in golf is just nice. You learn a lot about people playing golf: their integrity, how they play under pressure.
Donald Trump
#83. I grew up playing hockey and baseball, so I wish I had time to get back into it, but living in L.A. and North Carolina, you have to take advantage of the golf.
Diego Klattenhoff
#84. Golf's really fun in Japan because of the women caddies ... I saw one guy start out playing alone with his caddie. By the 9th hole they were engaged and when they finished on 18 they had a foursome.
Bob Hope
#85. I was playing once with the King of Samoa. I asked him what his handicap was. "Six wives," he said.
Jack Redmond
#86. Being away for the weekends, and me being the international player that I have been for those 30 years, I've spent a lot more time flying around the world, playing different golf tournaments around the world.
Greg Norman
#87. I've been playing golf a long time, although it's not really true that on my first round they strapped my bag on the back of a dinosaur.
Bob Hope
#88. I am against making golf courses obsolete, going to the national Open and playing half the holes with a one-iron.
Arnold Palmer
#89. I'm not interested at all in playing more than 12, 15 tournaments a year on an annual basis because like all the old guys out here on this Tour, we've played golf for nearly 30 years of our lives.
Greg Norman
#90. There's really no pain in the realm of the higher astral. A lot of spirits are playing mini-golf having a good time.
Frederick Lenz
#91. I never got on the course with my dad, but to be playing golf with my kids - that's a dream.
Mark Wahlberg
#92. All seasoned players know, or at least have felt, that when you are playing your best, you are much the same as in a state of meditation. You are free of tension and chatter. You are concentrating on one thing. It is the ideal condition for good golf.
Harvey Penick
#93. Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What are we supposed to take up when we quit?
George Archer
#94. Golf is a lot like sex. It's something you can enjoy all your life. And if you remain an amateur, you get to pick your own playing partners.
Jess Sweetser
#95. I like the thought of playing for money instead of silverware. I never did like to polish.
Patty Sheehan
#96. Kids below 10 or 12, I think they just need to learn by playing at golf. Later on, in high school, when they develop muscles and everything, that's when they need to see about getting lessons.
Bubba Watson
#97. It is never easy to win but it is a lot easier to win when you play well. The key is winning golf tournaments when you are not playing so well. Managing your game is something that I feel that I am still learning to do.
Rory McIlroy
#98. I've spent more time playing golf than anything else the last 18 years. Just wanted to be an 80s-shooter. Got there, too.
Jack Nicholson
#99. That's one of the things you get when you're playing golf. You get bad backs, bad necks.
Tom Watson
#100. I enjoy now doing what I do ... playing golf, relaxing a little, enjoying life.
Yogi Berra
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