Top 100 Golfer Quotes
#1. A golfer has to learn to enjoy the process of striving to improve. That process, not the end result, enriches life.
Bob Rotella
#2. It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.
Yani Tseng
#3. I think I've gotten more attention after the Olympics than any other U.S. athlete, and it's really great that people are recognizing who I am and what I do. You look at Shaq and you see a basketball player. You look at Tiger Woods and you see a golfer. But people are responding to who I am.
Johnny Weir
#4. I have many golfer friends whom I play with, including my good friend Ian Poulter, a professional golfer who's coming to Asia to play in a few tournaments.
Heikki Kovalainen
#5. The life of a professional golfer is precarious at best. Win, and they carry you to the clubhouse on their shoulders. Lose, and you pay the caddies in the dark.
Gene Sarazen
#6. I'm not a real estate developer. I'm a golfer. I'm a sportsman.
Bob McNair
#7. If you're a beach person or a golfer, Key West is not for you. Most of the sand has been imported, and the water is shallow until you've waded far out, and all the way the sea floor is covered with yucky algae and sea grass.
Edmund White
#8. I can't believe you're a professional golfer. I think you should be working at the snack bar.
Bob Barker
#10. Every golfer has at least 14 enemies: his clubs.
Dan Jenkins
#11. Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.
Dan Jenkins
#12. No golfer's journey is complete without a pilgrimage to St. Andrews, the mecca of the game. This is where it all began, back in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Alex Shoumatoff
#13. Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.
Johnny Miller
#14. When I was 13, I told my dad I wanted to move to Florida to attend the IMG Academy. I wanted to be a golfer, and that's hard to do in New England where I could only practice half the year.
Peter Uihlein
#15. I consider myself as a character actor. I like the sports analogy, which I do all the time; I'm an avid sports guy. I'm a golfer, but I grew up as sort of an avid fan and participant in baseball, and I'm like a relief pitcher. My job is to come in and throw strikes.
Clint Howard
#16. 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
#17. There is no such thing as a natural golfer but you become one by hitting thousands of balls
Lee Trevino
#18. My dad's a scratch golfer and I've got the knack of seeing something and then replicating it. I saw my dad swing a club and I worked out how to do the same thing. My backswing and follow-through have been basically the same since I was two.
Rory McIlroy
#19. 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
#20. If I hadn't become a golfer, I doubt I'd be wealthy, because I don't have the sort of ego that drives a person all day long. I might have wound up driving a tractor.
Fuzzy Zoeller
#21. The Masters is one of golf's greatest traditions and Augusta is one of the best courses in the world. They are synonymous. It's an event that every golfer, and golf fan, looks forward to.
Mike Weir
#22. The life of the golfer is not all gloom; There's always the lies in the locker room.
Sammy Cahn
#23. 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
#24. 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.
Gary Player
#25. You know the world is messed up when the tallest man in the NBA is Chinese, the best golfer is black, and the best rapper is white.
Chris Rock
#26. Mickey Mantle was a very good golfer, but we weren't allowed to play golf during the season; only at spring training.
Yogi Berra
#27. Alan Shepard was the first and only interplanetary golfer," Coke told his sister. "He was also the first and only interplanetary litterbug," Moe said. "What he did was disgraceful.
Dan Gutman
#28. You could argue that if the average golfer plays a golf course with 430-yard par 4s and they always miss the green, that's good practice. It's definitely great practice to play a course that's too long for you.
Amy Alcott
#29. I think if you're a painter, you paint; if you're a golfer, you golf; if you're a fisherman, you fish; if you're a musician, you play music.
Randy Bachman
#30. 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.
David Feherty
#31. To win a major championship - I think, at the end of the day, that's what a golfer's career is based upon.
Adam Derek Scott
#32. I believe there's - now, don't get me wrong; I'm not prejudiced - there's some white people in this country who'll never accept the black man as a golfer. That's true.
Charlie Sifford
#33. The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today. And that's how I look at my life. I will be a better golfer, I will be a better person, I will be a better father, I will be a better husband, I will be a better friend. That's the beauty of tomorrow.
Tiger Woods
#34. I practice a lot. I practice in the winter when it's cold in Connecticut - a lot. I practice in my bedroom on the carpet - a lot. For all the practice I do, I should be a better golfer than I am.
Stuart Scott
#35. Some golfers, we are told, enjoy the landscape; but properly, the landscape shrivels and compresses into the grim, surrealistically vivid patch of grass directly under the golfer's eyes as he morosely walks toward where he thinks his ball might be.
John Updike
#36. The moment the average golfer attempts to play from long grass or a bunker or from a difficult lie of any kind, he becomes a digger instead of a swinger.
Bobby Jones
#37. I mean I don't want to feel inferior to any other golfer in the world. You know if you do that, then you know you're giving them an advantage, you know, right off the - you know, right from the start.
Rory McIlroy
#38. If you pick up a golfer and hold it close to your ear, like a conch shell, and listen, you will hear an alibi.
Fred Beck
#39. In fantasy land, I wish I could be a pro golfer. I love golf - the most frustratingly brilliant game on the planet.
Mark Hadlow
#40. Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.
Victor Mature
#41. Who wants to miss their opportunity of playing in a Major ... A golfer's career is all about it. The lesson I have learnt is that I will tee up for the Majors only when I am 100 percent fit.
Jeev Milkha Singh
#42. My one complaint with my father as a parent is that, not only was he not a golfer, but also he was sort of opposed to golf. I was a country club kid growing up. I should have played golf, but my father thought golf was a sport for old men.
Mike Greenberg
#43. No golfer ever gets so consistently good that he can't use some constructive advice. No matter how many trophies he may win, he can't analyze and remedy his own faults.
Byron Nelson
#44. The recreational golfer who gives it careful thought will conclude that the favorite golf hole in his life played downhill, gradually or severely, and normally was downwind as well.
Dan Jenkins
#45. Every golfer should come to the first tee with fourteen clubs, a dozen balls, a handful of tees, and at least one great golf story
Lee Trevino
#46. The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top.
Pete Dye
#47. A good player who is a great putter is a match for any golfer. A great hitter who cannot putt is a match for no one.
Ben Sayers
#48. Give me a man with big hands and big feet and no brains and I'll make a golfer out of him.
Walter Hagen
#49. As every golfer knows, no one ever lost his mind over one shot. It is rather the gradual process of shot after shot watching your score go to tatters - knowing that you have found a different way to bogey each hole.
Thomas Boswell
#50. Jimmy Stewart could have been a good golfer, but he speaks so slowly that by the time he yells 'Fore!' the guy he's hit is already in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.
Bob Hope
#51. Every time a fellow golfer gives me a piece of advice I have thought about it. A different thing is that this advice can be introduced into my golfing routine.
Seve Ballesteros
#52. As the great golfer Ben Hogan once said, "Golf is a game of luck. And the harder I work, the luckier I get.
Kenneth Bock
#53. The average golfer's problem is not so much the lack of ability as it is lack of knowledge about what he should be doing
Ben Hogan
#54. Golfers are genuinely courteous in a discourteous world. Show me a guest on The Jerry Springer Show who's a golfer.
James Woods
#55. I'm patient with crossword puzzles and the most impatient golfer.
Brett Hull
#56. No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.
Tom Watson
#57. You can always tell the golfer who's winning: he's the one who keeps telling his opponent that it's only a game.
Evan Esar
#59. The final group, on Sunday at the Masters, is the greatest feeling in the world for a professional golfer.
Phil Mickelson
#60. Name me one golfer that doesn't get frustrated.
Peter Uihlein
#61. 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
#62. Any golfer worth his salt has to cross the sea and try to win the British Open.
Jack Nicklaus
#63. There is no truth in the idea that the person who hits the most balls will become the best golfer. Golf is a bizarre sport. You can work for years on your game, without making any improvement in your score.
Fred Couples
#64. I like to think about music as a sport. But only in terms of golf, as far as the course being music and me being the golfer. So it's competitive but only with yourself. With the last one doing well, it made it a challenge to feel like I was improving in some way.
Panda Bear
#65. You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.
Gary Player
#66. From the time I won the Kansas City Match Play championship at age 14, I never wanted to be anything but a golfer.
Tom Watson
#67. Americans believe if you go to college, you have something to fall back on, which makes sense. I don't have any degrees. If I hadn't become a golfer, I have no idea what I would be doing with my life.
Stuart Appleby
#68. This is the great thing about Northern Ireland. I walk down the street and people stop me and say things like, 'I know you. You're that wee golfer, aren't you?' I say, 'Yeah, that's me.' They say, 'Keep it up, wee man.' It's very funny and that's why I want to stay here as long as possible.
Rory McIlroy
#69. Golfing with Eisman wasn't like golfing with other Wall Street people. The round usually began with a collective discomfort on the first tee, after Eisman turned up wearing something that violated the Wall Street golfer's notion of propriety.
Michael Lewis
#70. I love to play tennis. I play a lot in the summer. I'm not a big golfer; I need something a bit more intense.
Carl Hagelin
#71. I always wanted to be the best I could be at whatever I did. I didn't want to be the number one golfer in the world. I just wanted to be as good as I could be. I work hard, I push myself hard, and I probably even expect too much of myself.
Greg Norman
#73. I have aspirations to try and compete professionally. Any golfer that competes in tournaments would be lying if they said they didn't.
Lucas Black
#75. Everyone knows what the Masters is, even if you're a non-golfer. People know what Wimbledon is. They know what the Super Bowl is. There are certain events that people just know about.
Tiger Woods
#76. My goal is to be the No. 1 golfer in the world, and I want to chase Tiger.
Jason Day
#77. No golfer has completed his education until he has played and studied Royal Dornoch.
Herbert Wind
#78. It is not mere technical skill that makes a man a golfer, it is the golfing soul.
P.G. Wodehouse
#79. Jones is the greatest golfer who ever lived and probably ever will live. That's my goal. Bobby Jones. It's the only goal.
Jack Nicklaus
#80. One golfer a year is hit by lightning. This may be the only evidence we have of God's existence.
Steve Aylett
#82. I'm a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They're great for you limber-wise, they're great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.
Matthew McConaughey
#83. I intend to be the greatest golfer in the world, the finest film producer in Hollywood, the greatest pilot in the world, and the richest man in the world.
Howard Hughes
#84. Just to be able to say you're No. 1, you are the best golfer on the planet, just for one day, would be the best thing ever. Knowing that you were the best in the world would be pretty neat.
Jason Day
#85. I don't really remember, but from about the age of five I told anyone who would listen that I was going to be the best golfer in the world.
Rory McIlroy
#86. I want to be best golfer in the world. But I feel like golf is not everything in my life, but I want to keep doing it, keep working hard, do the best I can on the tour and give back to the tour.
Yani Tseng
#87. At first a golfer excuses a dismal performance by claiming bad lies. With experience, he covers up with better ones.
Lee P. Brown
#88. We didn't get along, me and Bill Murray. But I've got to give it to him: I don't like him, but he makes me laugh even now. I'm also jealous that he's a better golfer than I am.
Richard Dreyfuss
#89. When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.
Dan Jenkins
#90. I'm probably the only bottom-heavy golfer in the country.
Jack Nicklaus
#91. Great touch is often written off simply as 'talent,' which is crucial, because a good swing can take a golfer only so far. I've seen thousands of fantastic swings in my day, but that doesn't guarantee anything.
Arnold Palmer
#93. When you look at facing retirement in your mid-30s, and all of a sudden the outlet for that passion and work ethic goes away, you can't just sit back in a rocking chair and be retired at 35. I'm not a good enough golfer to play golf every day.
Drew Bledsoe
#94. My whole family is missing that sports gene. I hope I didn't screw that up by marrying a great golfer.
Penn Jillette
#95. My golf score is really bad. I don't know. I'm definitely not a good golfer. Off the tee box, I can drive it about 275, and I'm in the fairway about 99% of the time. It's my next shot that needs work.
Jason Aldean
#96. It's so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying "Shhh" and not moving a muscle. Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
Al McGuire
#97. I don't see myself as the Great Black Hope. I'm just a golfer who happens to be black and Asian. It doesn't matter whether they're white, black, brown or green.
Tiger Woods
#98. Every golfer can expect to have four bad shots in a round and when you do, just put them out of your mind. This, of course is hard to do when you've had them and you're not even off the first tee.
Walter Hagen
#99. The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart between shots at PGA Tour events. Man, the next thing you know, they're going to have some guy carry his clubs around for him.
Jon Stewart
#100. As a golfer, you feel like you're perpetually on the rack [in foursomes]. Mentally, it's very difficult.
Ben Crenshaw
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