Golf's Quotes

#1. I mean, I think having a great family like I do. You know, I tend to want to give it all I have when I'm at the golf course, and then when I leave I don't want to think about golf at all. And I just remind myself almost daily that golf's just my job, it's not who I am.

Webb Simpson

#2. 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

#3. I've heard people say my swing's not perfect, and I know that. But golf's a natural sport, very sensitive. It's played a lot by feel. I don't care if my swing is too flat. If it works, I don't have to change it.

Sergio Garcia

#4. Golf's ultimate moral instruction directs us to find within ourselves a pivotal center of enjoyment: relax into a rhythm that fits the hills and swales, and play the shot at hand - not the last one, or the next one, but the one at your feet, in the poison ivy, where you put it.

John Updike

#5. Golf's three ugliest words: still your shot.

Dave Marr

#6. 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

#7. Being a club pro and all, a guy trying to keep up with golf's modern technology, I hadn't found much time for Internet dating, but then one day I knew I'd met the girl of my dreams when she replied to a comment. She said, 'I love it when you talk equipment to me.'

Dan Jenkins

#8. I thought marriage was tough. Golf's like going over Niagara Falls in a barrel! It's a psychological game that gets into your blood.

Sylvester Stallone

#9. I always say golf's a really good exposer of a player's personality.

Stuart Appleby

#10. Beyond the fact that it is a limitless arena for the full play of human nature, there is no sure accounting for golf's fascination ... Perhaps it is nothing more than the best game man has ever devised.

Herbert Wind

#11. Golf's a great game, and you meet a lot of people along the way.

Matt Kuchar

#12. It strikes me that golf's great virtue is that it gets you out of the house, away from everyday bothers, away from the endless round of looking for this, that and the other.

Craig Brown

#13. Keeping the head still is golf's one universal, unarguable fundamental.

Jack Nicklaus

#14. Trouble is, I don't get to play a lot at the moment because I've just signed a contract where I've got to do 200 shows a year in pubs, so the golf's fallen away a bit.

Eric Bristow

#15. Golf's a funny game. You can be playing poorly and then go and win a tournament.

Karrie Webb

#16. It's amazing how many people beat you at golf now that you're no longer president.

George H. W. Bush

#17. Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's.

Grantland Rice

#18. I screwed up. It's all on me. I know that ... All these hiccups I have, they must be for a reason. All this is just a test. I just don't know what the test is yet.

Greg Norman

#19. Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.

Caitlyn Jenner

#20. Actually I was more of a breaker than a thrower - most of them putters. I broke so many of those that I probably became the world's foremost authority on how to putt without a putter.

Tommy Bolt

#21. There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.

Jack Nicklaus

#22. That's the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on.

Bernhard Langer

#23. Tennis is like a wonderful, longstanding relationship with a husband. Golf is a tempestuous, lousy lover; it's totally unpredicatable, a constant surprise.

Dinah Shore

#24. Life's too short to spend all the time in the gym. I just like to have a few beers and enjoy myself too.

Ian Woosnam

#25. I believe in destiny ... what's going to be is going to be. If I'm going to win, I'm going to win ... I don't give a damn what the other guy shoots. I'm going to win if it's my turn.

Sam Snead

#26. I play golf because it's fun.

Bubba Watson

#27. I've said many times before that Pebble Beach is a wonderful thinking-man's golf course. That is why it is such a great U.S. Open venue.

Jack Nicklaus

#28. That's the nature of sport, if you look at how Europe has performed they have found a way to win but golf is cyclical and there's not much between the teams.

Darren Clarke

#29. I could go away five or six weeks in a row and never touch a club. I would just look at them and say, 'I just don't want to; it's not that important.' And it wasn't that important. Golf - I don't want to answer loosely - I pay a lot of attention to it, but I don't ever really think about it.

Fred Couples

#30. It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.

Jack Nicklaus

#31. I hate a hook. It nauseates me. I could vomit when I see one. It's like a rattlesnake in your pocket.

Ben Hogan

#32. His weekly golf game no longer keeps his love handles in check, he's recently resorted to a slight comb-over to cover that growing bald spot, he squints to avoid wearing the bifocals he hides in his desk drawer, and he spends his days in an office filled with decades-old sports trophies.

Kelley Armstrong

#33. Cape Town's beaches are superb and while the water on the Atlantic side is damn cold, it's very pleasant on the other side. Bring your golf clubs if you play - Cape Town has some fabulous golf courses.

Wilbur Smith

#34. And Kate Hepburn-God, she's beautiful, God, she plays golf well, God, she can get anyone in the world on the phone, God, she knows what to do all the time, God, she wears clothes well.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

#35. 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

#36. As far as golf being athletic, I would say, go try it, let's see how well you do. It's a hard game.

Matt Kuchar

#37. 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

#38. I'm not very good at practice. But if you tell yourself you love the hole and love hitting it on the fairway, it's a big difference.

Barry Lane

#39. Really in all my years on Tour, in the U.S. Open I probably played great golf in two of them, out of maybe 20, so it's a lot of work.

Fred Couples

#40. I can't see anyone coming out, because the players feel it is no one's business. We all stick together. We're a very tight group. It would be too hard for just one person to do, too stressful. And why should it make a difference? The LPGA is about golf.

Hollis Stacy

#41. I always knew what was most important to me. When I was growing up, nothing was more important than golf, but that's the attitude of a young person who hasn't a care in the world. Later on I figured it out. Family was first. Always. Then golf and business come after.

Arnold Palmer

#42. 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

#43. I had played in a tournament with the captain of the University of Minnesota's golf team, and he thought I was good. He called his coach, and the coach called me and recruited me. A five-minute phone call changed my life.

Tom Lehman

#44. He was a man's man: an expert on the golf course, a force to be dealt with in business, and a Texan through and through
and proud of it.

Patricia Cori

#45. Golf is fluid. It's always changing. It's always evolving. First of all, you never master it.

Tiger Woods

#46. Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

Dave Barry

#47. Why go to a church to worship God? A church is man made. God never said, "And let there be aluminum siding." Climbing a tree to talk to God sounds like a better idea since only God can make a tree. And if that tree's on a golf course, all the better.

Tim Allen

#48. You ever go up to the tee and say, 'Don't hit it left, don't hit it right'? That's your conscious mind. My body knows how to play golf. I've trained it to do that. It's just a matter of keeping my conscious mind out of it.

Tiger Woods

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. It's like living at an airshow, unless you have something against airplanes, golf, guns, motorcycles, nice cars or drinking.

Brian R. Norris

#52. 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

#53. We were always taught to swing slow with good tempo. But you have to have some acceleration throughout the swing. I think that's where a lot of women go wrong. They should try to whack it a few times and see what happens.

Helen Alfredsson

#54. Believe it or not, I'm not really thinking about anything when I putt ... It's hard to teach. I let my instincts take over. I like to see which way the break is going and use it. When I'm putting well, I feel like I can make everything.

Brad Faxon

#55. Some things cannont possibly happen, because they are both too improbable and too perfect. The U.S. hockey team cannot beat the Russians in the 1980 Olympics. Jack Nicklaus cannot shoot 65 to win the Masters at age forty-six. Nothing else comes immediately to mind.

Thomas Boswell

#56. I know this golf tournament has my name on it but it's not about me. It's about the Louisiana Tech family. There is nothing greater than being a part of the Bulldog family.

Terry Bradshaw

#57. It's just to let the other one know it can be replaced.

Larry Nelson

#58. That "I don't give a darn" attitude is probably why I've shot so many good final rounds over the years when I started the day a few shots behind with nothing to lose ... and maybe that's why I've shot so many bad last rounds when I was ahead and knew I couldn't afford a mistake.

Jack Nicklaus

#59. In golf, you keep your head down and follow through. In the vice presidency, you keep your head up and follow through. It's a big difference.

Dan Quayle

#60. You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think.

Tom Robbins

#61. 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

#62. Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.

Tiger Woods

#63. I don't believe in taking much of a divot, especially with the longer irons. You want to barely comb the grass through impact. It's the only way to catch the ball on the second groove up from the bottom of the clubface. That's where you want to make contact: on the second groove.

Moe Norman

#64. Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism.

Robert Hass

#65. The life of the golfer is not all gloom; There's always the lies in the locker room.

Sammy Cahn

#66. The only way of really finding out a man's true character is to play golf with him. In no other walk of life does the cloven hoof so quickly display itself.

P.G. Wodehouse

#67. It's mass confusion. I'm guessing on every shot. About the only thing left for me is acupuncture in the brain.

George Archer

#68. Donald Trump happened to be in Scotland on the very day, the morning after the Brexit vote. He's there to open his golf course in Turnberry, and, lo and behold, the first thing he talked about was not the Brexit vote.

Rush Limbaugh

#69. Pretty it's pretty good for me because I'm over here in the winters. It's really improved my golf game.

Peter Forsberg

#70. The USGA doesn't want to recognize the fact that today's players are better than ever. They seem willing to do anything to prevent us from shooting scores that would make us appear better than the great names of the past.

Hale Irwin

#71. I don't do a lot when I'm in Gascony. I swim and play the odd game of golf, but mainly I sit around. We're set an hour-and-a-half from the Pyrenees and an hour-and-a-half from the Bay of Biscay, so we get plenty of storms. But we're surrounded by vines and sunflowers - it's lovely.

Terry Wogan

#72. I like trying to win. That's what golf is all about.

Jack Nicklaus

#73. David, for example, comes home from work and complains to Angela that his father isn't paying him enough, especially compared to his brother, Steve, who doesn't work very hard and frequently takes off from work to play golf.

Drew S. Mendoza

#74. Every day I play golf, that's my goal. To break 70 the other way. To shoot 70 or better.

Arnold Palmer

#75. Everyone wants to be known as a great striker of the ball for some reason. Nobody wants to be called a lucky, one-putting s.o.b.

Gary Player

#76. The TV and the public pay our wages and they like to see professional golfers mess it up. Missing a green with a chip shot - when do you see that? It's great to see exciting golf like we had last week.

Paul McGinley

#77. It's an individual sport (golf), so it's the exact opposite of baseball. If you hit a bad shot, you can't say, 'Well, this happened.' It's just you. It's your shot. You can't point the finger at anybody but yourself.

Albert Belle

#78. I am a guy who likes to do what I am doing with passion, whether it's a soccer match with friends or golf.

Rafael Nadal

#79. Every day that goes by shortens our opportunity of booking it successfully. Whether it's members pulling their condos for personal use, whether it's a convention booking our conference center, whether it's golf packages being booked .. not hearing makes it that much harder to accommodate them.

Bill Vaughan

#80. I always look to see what Arnold [Palmer] shot; it's a habit. We will always compete against each other.

Jack Nicklaus

#81. If I had won ... all those other championships, my life might be totally different, but I didn't win. It's not going to affect my life.

Greg Norman

#82. It's really football, tennis, and golf that I watch other than hockey.

Sidney Crosby

#83. McIlroy's taken the standard of golf to one level beyond where Tiger was.

Colin Montgomerie

#84. Just trust your instincts. There's an old saying in golf, you've studied the swing many times, and you practice and practice, but when you stand over the ball, you just have to trust your swing. And you trust it. And if you don't trust it, you'll ruin it; your brain will take over.

Clint Eastwood

#85. There's an old saying,'It's a poor craftsman who blames his tools.' It's usually the player who misses those three-footers, not the putter.

Kathy Whitworth

#86. 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

#87. Golf has an ambivalent relationship with the environment. On one hand, it's a great preserver of open spaces. Golf doesn't pave the world - it helps to green the world. But the downside is, it uses a lot of fertilizer, pesticides and water.

Thomas Friedman

#88. 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

#89. The good part is if I play a solid round of golf, it will be very hard for the others to beat me. And that's all I'm thinking about.

Adam Derek Scott

#90. The golf swing is very, very rhythmic. There's a certain tempo to it, just like in music.

Justin Timberlake

#91. 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

#92. I realize that's why we play golf, to hit the ball into the hole. But it is a strange feeling when you hit the shot and it actually goes in.

Hollis Stacy

#93. 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

#94. There's more to be learned here [St. Andrews] about course design than anywhere. Collection bunkers, false fronts, bump shots. The fundamentals of design became fundamental because of what's here. And it happened accidentally. Or maybe accidentally on purpose.

Jack Nicklaus

#95. I learned to surf for 'Soul Surfer.' Surfing is like golf: You're always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It's magic.

Dennis Quaid

#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. It's hard to tell who's going to win this week, but it probably won't be a big, fat guy.

David Feherty

#98. You figure they cheat at the ballpark, they'll cheat on the golf course, they'll cheat in business, and anything else in life. Players may laugh about it and say it's funny, but right down in their heart, they don't think it's funny at all, and they have no respect for a person who cheats.

Bob Feller

#99. Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one's hand.

Bobby Jones

#100. To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

P.G. Wodehouse