Top 100 Golfer Quotes
#1. 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
#2. If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.
Ben Hogan
#3. A golfer needs a loving wife to whom he can describe the day's play through the long evening.
P.G. Wodehouse
#4. No golfer can ever become too good to practice.
May Hezlet
#5. In America, if you want to make it as a golfer, you go to college on a scholarship. In Australia, you go to the airport with a plane ticket. The competition just isn't there.
Stuart Appleby
#6. Professional golfer ... what a life.
Billy Bush
#7. After a golfer has been out on the circuit for a while he learns how to handle his dating so that it doesn't interfere with his golf. The first rule usually is no woman-chasing after Wednesday.
Tony Lema
#8. Ron Sirak, a golf writer and friend, was quoted as saying, "Annika is no longer a female golfer. She's a golfer." That's truly all I ever aspired to be.
Annika Sorenstam
#9. I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance my left ear is from my right.
Ben Crenshaw
#10. Staying in the present is the key to any golfer's game: once you start thinking about a shot you just messed up or what you have to do on the next nine to catch somebody, you're lost.
Paul Azinger
#11. I've always said that if I could do anything in the world, I would be a professional golfer.
Dane DeHaan
#12. I've always wanted to be a professional golfer and I'm glad that came true.
Karrie Webb
#13. I have a special feeling for Blue Hills CC, where I won perhaps the most important tournament of my life when I was 14 - the Kansas City Match Play Championship. It gave me a dream of becoming a professional golfer.
Tom Watson
#14. A friend of mine, a dedicated golfer, shot a hole in one playing by himself. Disaster.
William Glasser
#15. You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.
Charles Barkley
#16. He [the golfer] must have the courage to keep trying in the face of ill luck or disappointment, and timidity to appreciate and appraise the dangers of each stroke, and to curb the desire to take chances beyond reasonable hope of success.
Bobby Jones
#17. Once when I was golfing in Georgia, I hooked the ball into the swamp. I went in after it and found an alligator wearing a shirt with a picture of a little golfer on it.
Buddy Hackett
#18. I think I've heard somebody say that I was a well-dressed golfer. I guess that has something to do with the fact that a lot of people who play golf don't dress very well.
Arnold Palmer
#19. There are times when a golfer is tempted to throw her clubs away and forget the whole 'humblin' business.' At other times, she wouldn't trade places with a queen-that's when the shots are long and true, and putts are dropping.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
#20. This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.
Inbee Park
#21. I want to try to become the best golfer in the world.
Rory McIlroy
#23. I was a caddy once and I lost the golfer's clubs. Plus I don't know how to golf, so I was the worst caddy ever. Then I was a mortgage brokers assistant, so that was just carrying around a lot of files - pretty meaningless, mind-numbing work.
Bryan Greenberg
#24. You're never going to be a Yankee for a day, or you're never going to be a Laker, but with Pro-Ams, they allow you to feel like you're a professional golfer and play under their conditions.
George Lopez
#26. I found an instructor, Chris O'Connell, who helped me. He turned me into the player I am today - a consistent golfer.
Matt Kuchar
#27. I am proud of my achievements, my work ethic, and the way I live my life. The PGA Tour not only treated me unfairly, but displayed a lack of professionalism that should concern every professional golfer and fan of the game.
Vijay Singh
#28. You can, legally, possibly hit and kill a fellow golfer with a ball, and there will not be a lot of trouble because the other golfers will refuse to stop and be witnesses because they will want to keep playing.
Dave Barry
#29. Golf is just for fun. I have no time to be a pro golfer, not even after F1. I think it's too late and I'm too old to learn now. Golf is just a hobby and maybe I can improve a little bit more.
Heikki Kovalainen
#30. Without the AJGA, it would be very difficult for the college coaches to find us. Every junior golfer around the country knows about the AJGA and knows that's the way to get to college. And the way to get beyond college.
Jordan Spieth
#31. Every professional golfer has a seperate coach for his drives, for approaches, for putting. In football we have one coach for 15 players. This is absurd.
Johan Cruijff
#32. My goal has always been to play golf, and play it well. In the end, that's what I am, a golfer. If my back lets me, I'm going to play my favorite places. If I hurt myself, that'll probably be it for a while.
Fred Couples
#33. Show me a golfer who doesn't have a mean streak, and I'll show you a weak competitor.
Lee Trevino
#34. I always worry when someone's a good golfer. It's like you shouldn't have time to be good at anything. You should just be a politician and you shouldn't have time to practice golf.
Ellen DeGeneres
#35. The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.
Dan Jenkins
#36. Putting allows the touchy golfer two to four opportunities to blow a gasket in the short space of two to forty feet.
Tommy Bolt
#37. Confidence, of course is an admirable asset to a golfer, but it should be an unspoken confidence. It is perilous to put it into speech. The gods of golf lie in wait to chasten the presumptious.
P.G. Wodehouse
#38. I'd love to visit South America, especially Argentina, as I'm a winemaker myself. They do a fantastic malbec, so it would be a dream to sample their grapes. New Zealand would be great, too. I'm a golfer, so it would combine both my loves.
Kyle MacLachlan
#39. I gravitate toward the team thing. I'm not a golfer - I much prefer basketball.
Michael Eisner
#41. Way, way, way back I played a little bit, but I am definitely not a golfer. You know, it just takes too much time anyway during the course of the day.
Robert Duvall
#42. Consider the value of doing what you love and being paid for it!
This is truly a golfer's dream.
Lorii Myers
#43. I think that in itself, if you're a true golfer, you'll see specific things you need to work on. Much cheaper than private lessons.
Tiger Woods
#44. You learn to accept defeat graciously in golf. Unlike other sports, the game itself is a constant opponent. It never stops. A golfer is fortunate to win a few times. We spend our whole lives trying to conquer something, and we lose a lot more than we win.
Ben Crenshaw
#45. The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.
Jack Nicklaus
#46. I may be the only golfer never to have broken a single putter, if you don't count the one I twisted into a loop and threw into a bush.
Thomas Boswell
#47. A golfer rarely needs to hit a spectacular shot until the one that preceded it was pretty bad.
Harvey Penick
#48. I don't just want to be the best black player or the best Asian player. I want to be the best golfer ever.
Tiger Woods
#49. I'm not much of a golfer, I don't have any friends and all I like to do is go home and be alone, and not worry about ways not to lose.
Bear Bryant
#50. This golfer has a wicked slice. And quite a follow-through. That's why his partner, who stood too close, Is on the green in two.
Richard Armour
#51. On golfer Rory McIlroy's collapse in the final round of the 2011 Masters: We had hoped to compare the young Northern Irishman to the great Masters champions but instead had to reach for the compendium of great golfing train wrecks.
Matt Dickinson
#52. The test of a great golfer is his ability to recover from a bad start.
P.G. Wodehouse
#53. My father was a very good golfer and he got me started early. My grandfather played, too. It was just something that the Kroft family did. I kind of grew up on the golf course.
Steve Kroft
#54. If I wasn't a golfer, I would still be miserable - but not as miserable.
Larry David
#55. The biggest liar in the world is the golfer who claims he plays the game for exercise.
Tommy Bolt
#56. It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y'know, I'm not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth.
Bill Paxton
#57. Every golfer has a little monster in him. It's just that type of sport.
Fuzzy Zoeller
#58. St. Andrews is the Home of Golf and the greatest course in the world. Any time you can win at St. Andrews would be special. It's every golfer's dream to win out here.
Peter Uihlein
#59. I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.
Martin Sheen
#60. I always wanted to be a golfer, only I realised that if I'd played golf I would have been skint.
Alan Hansen
#61. The good citizen when he opens his door in the evening must be banker, golfer, husband, father; not a nomad wandering the desert, a mystic staring at the sky, a debauchee in the slums of San Francisco, a soldier heading a revolution, a pariah howling with skepticism and solitude.
Virginia Woolf
#62. Tiger is born into the home of an expert golfer and confessed "golf addict" who loves to teach and is eager to begin teaching his new son as soon as possible.
Geoff Colvin
#63. My problem happens to be near-sightedness - inability to see distance. And this is pretty tough on a golfer.
Arnold Palmer
#64. You know, I go to work in a great office every day, and the amount of freedom that goes with being a pro golfer on the tour is awesome. So I get to enjoy my weeks off away from the course, and then I get to go to work on some of the best golf courses in the world out here.
Adam Derek Scott
#65. While I am flattered about the speculation of being enticed out of retirement, I'm happy with life as a bad golfer!
Chipper Jones
#66. To win at Augusta and to win The Open Championship at St. Andrews, it's hard to put it into words as a golfer, as an athlete, as a guy - I'm not rich in history, I can tell you that. I'm not a great historian.
Zach Johnson
#67. Our problem with President Obama isn't that he's a bad person. By all accounts, he too is a good husband, and a good father - and thanks to lots of practice, a pretty good golfer.
Marco Rubio
#69. And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, then you're not going to believe in the golf story, you're not going to believe in the rest of the film. That's the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie's crap.
Shia Labeouf
#70. I started juggling a long time ago, but long before that, I was a golfer, and that's what I was: a golfer. And as a golfer and as a kid, one of the things that really sort of seeped into my pores, that I sort of lived my whole life, is process. And it's the process of learning things.
Michael Moschen
#71. I have been known to play a few rounds in my time. I'm not obsessive; I don't play in the dark, but even that's not out of the question because Stevie Wonder is also a golfer.
Jasper Carrott
#72. If the rest of his foursome are bunched directly behind his ball, or assume the foetal position with their backs to the tee, the golfer is reminded that his drive tends to be erratic. More cruel yet is for his opponent to stand directly in the projected line of flight, as the safest place to be.
Eric Nicol
#73. I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush has brought greater balm to the extremities of the senior golfer than the golfmobile, a word that will have to do for want of a better.
Alistair Cooke
#74. Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you're prepared to lose.
Pauline Phillips
#75. I'd love to have a lasting impact as far as growing the game. It would be cool to be remembered as a major champion. I'd like to be remembered as a great golfer but also a great person, as far as growing the game and charity work. The whole well-rounded athlete.
Rickie Fowler
#76. Think Indonesia and tourism, and the first thing that comes to mind is probably Bali. Think golf holiday, and most people would dream of Scotland or Ireland. But Indonesia harbors one of the best-kept secrets in the world of travel: it is a golfer's paradise.
Raymond Bonner
#77. I didn't get into this to pick up a new hobby. I don't want to just be a golfer. I want to be the best.
Gabrielle Reece
#78. A golfer should never make a mental mistake because the ball is just sitting there waiting for you to hit it.
Tiger Woods
#79. The sweep of his arms was wide and athletic, more like a quarterback than a middling golfer who had dropped off the tour.
Nichole Bernier
#80. Your appearance, attitude, and confidence define you as a person.
A professional, well-dressed golfer, like a businessperson, gives the impression that he thinks that the golf course and/or workplace and the people there are important.
Lorii Myers
#81. Retire to what? I'm a golfer and a fisherman. I've got no place to retire to.
Julius Boros
#82. Dare to be a sucky skateboarder or a lousy video editor or a completely crappy golfer. If we do only the stuff we're good at, we never learn anything new.
Justin Bieber
#83. You know the world's gone mad when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the USA of arrogance and the Germans don't want to go to war !
Chris Rock
#84. I was quite cocky, but having been hailed as this great young golfer, I couldn't even make the high school golf team once I got there. I had a big dose of humble pie then, and ever since, I've always known that there is always someone out there better than you, more talented. Always.
David Chang
#85. Had I not become a professional golfer, I think I would have pursued some type of career in aviation.
Arnold Palmer
#86. The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
Ben Hogan
#87. As a golfer, you feel like you're perpetually on the rack [in foursomes]. Mentally, it's very difficult.
Ben Crenshaw
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. My whole family is missing that sports gene. I hope I didn't screw that up by marrying a great golfer.
Penn Jillette
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. Mickey Mantle was a very good golfer, but we weren't allowed to play golf during the season; only at spring training.
Yogi Berra
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