Top 100 Play Golf Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. I don't want people to watch the way I dress. I want people to watch the way I play.
Seve Ballesteros
#5. 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
#6. Once you try, golf is the hardest game you'll ever play.
Roger Maltbie
#7. 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
#8. There are two things you can do with your head down - play golf and pray.
Lee Trevino
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. Retire to what? I already play golf and fish for a living.
Julius Boros
#12. I tried real hard to play golf, and I was so bad at it they would have to check me for ticks at the end of the round because I'd spent about half the day in the woods.
Jeff Foxworthy
#13. I went to play golf and tried to shoot my age, but I shot my weight instead.
Bob Hope
#14. The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way down at the bottom in terms of total numbers and growth.
Ed McMahon
#15. 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
#16. I've stated my position, and that is that we do not need a contraption to play the game of golf. I would hope that we'd play under one set of rules, and those rules would include a ban on the long putter hooked to the body in some way, shape or form.
Arnold Palmer
#17. 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
#18. I just wanna be me and play golf. I'm just Bubba.
Bubba Watson
#19. Aggressive play is a vital asset of the world's greatest golfers. However, it's even more important to the average player. Attack this game in a bold, confident, and determined way, and you'll make a giant leap toward realizing your full potential as a player.
Greg Norman
#20. I've always said, the harder the golf course, the better I play.
Paula Creamer
#21. The doctors told me I'd be fine if I play only golf and tennis doubles for the rest of my life. But I dive. I dogsled. I trek. I guess I'll have surgery.
Lauren Hutton
#23. The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top.
Pete Dye
#24. Some players would complain if they had to play on Dolly Parton's bedspread.
Jimmy Demaret
#25. I'm not wholesome at all. I detest homey things like cooking and bed-making and Peter Pan collars. I like to wear slacks and play golf.
Joan Caulfield
#26. 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
#27. That's another thing about my father. He made me very conscious of the fact I wasn't very good and I had to prove to him that I was good. And that hung with me, and I always wanted to play golf with him and show him. He said Never, Never tell anyone how good you are. Show them!
Arnold Palmer
#28. It's odd that the word 'atheist' even exist. I don't play golf, is there a word for non-golf players ?
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#29. In order to win, you must play your best golf when you need it most, and play your sloppy stuff when you can afford it. I shall not attempt to explain how you achieve this happy timing.
Bobby Jones
#30. She gestured to the bag. "What have you got in there?"
"Nothing much. Some golfballs, a handful of tees, a Glock, extra ammo, two hand grenades, a tear gas canister, a knife, Tums, clean socks, flares, and some Ensure chocolate shakes."
"You took all of that with you to play golf?
Janet Evanovich
#31. I tried golf for a while, but I wasn't very good at it, so I didn't play a lot of golf. I enjoy all sports, not just football. I like basketball, baseball, and I got into the World Cup. So really, sports in general are my life, and football specifically.
John Madden
#32. Of course, money matters to everyone even if some don't want to admit it. If I won the Race to Dubai, I look at that prize money and think it could pay off my new house or the range I'm building. I am privileged to play golf for a living - look around St Andrews, that's my office.
Rory McIlroy
#33. I can't even pretend to play golf.
Alan Arkin
#34. Three months later, on September 5, 2001, at a pro-am event preceding the Canadian Open at the Royal Montreal Golf Club, I was invited to play a round with Tiger Woods. Nothing in the game of politics had ever been as nerve-racking as that game of golf.
Jean Chretien
#35. When Nicklaus plays wells well, he wins. When he plays badly, he finishes second. When he plays terribly, he finishes third.
Johnny Miller
#36. People always assume I play basketball because I'm tall. I'd like to ask people if they play miniature golf because they're short, but I had a feeling breaking that one out right now wasn't going to endear me to anyone.
Aprilynne Pike
#37. My wife, she still gives me a hard time, and says I hunt too much or I like to play golf too much. And she's probably right, but it sure beats some of the things I used to do.
Brett Favre
#38. The rewards of golf, and of life too I expect, are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules.
Bobby Jones
#39. I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.
Jack Nicklaus
#40. I just kind of hang out, watch movies and play golf.
Rickie Fowler
#41. I don't follow golf! I don't keep up with golf or know who is coming or going. I am just here to play the game and be done with it.
Boo Weekley
#42. I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis tournaments.
Richard Davies
#43. I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.
Francis Ford Coppola
#44. They say that golf isn't a contact sport. Not the way that we play it
Alice Cooper
#45. Obviously a deer on the fairway has seen you tee off before and knows that the safest place to be when you play is right down the middle.
Jackie Gleason
#46. All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?
Willie Nelson
#47. I like to play music; play guitar - I love that. Play some golf in the summer. Just relax, enjoy the summer. That's nice.
Henrik Lundqvist
#48. Boxing's a poor man's sport. We can't afford to play golf or tennis. It is what it is. It's kept so many kids off the street. It kept me off the street.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#49. I've always tried to play golf with a golf club. I have a hard time driving with my rifle. I mean, 18 is really narrow ... I have no problem with the course, except for the tee shot on 18.
Jack Nicklaus
#50. Some people play golf. Some are artists, Some jog. I like to write.
Barbara Boxer
#52. It's a torture chamber, if we had to play it every day I don't think I'd be playing golf.
Ian Woosnam
#53. The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win.
Phil Mickelson
#55. Golf isn't first on my list anymore. There are a lot of things ahead of golf and I have to go ahead and do those things so I can play golf. I'm tired of hurting. Tired of fighting pain.
Fuzzy Zoeller
#56. I play with friends, but we don't play friendly games.
Ben Hogan
#57. I went and took golf lessons so Dad would let me play with him. I was just terrible ... but I was able to have a wonderful time just walking around with Dad. I can see the real pleasure of that game.
David Hyde Pierce
#58. One of my great loves is golf. When I am in L.A., I like to play with a few close friends: no phones, no distractions, the great outdoors and the chance to bet some money to keep it interesting.
Nobu Matsuhisa
#59. If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Bob Hope
#60. I love baseball, but being here (in the United States), I've been able to play golf every day. I can't play in Japan because every course has caddies, and the caddies all want autographs and don't want to let me golf.
Ichiro Suzuki
#61. It was cool for a couple of weeks, but how much bad golf can you play?
John Goodman
#62. As long as I keep enjoying my golf, then hopefully I'll be able to play well.
Rory McIlroy
#63. I expect to play golf until I am 90-even longer if anybody figures out a way to swing a club from a rocking chair.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
#64. But we do have a golf course near by and I play fairly regularly.
Perry Como
#65. I bleed all the time. I play golf and stuff, so there's always something, nicks and stuff here and there.
O.J. Simpson
#66. All I want to do is do my shows and play golf.
Mickey Gilley
#67. When you play the game for fun, it's fun. When you play it for a living, it's a game of sorrows.
Gary Player
#68. If I ever get bored with golf, I'm going to start over and play lefthanded.
Michelle Wie
#69. I'm a Christian guy, and when it comes to my priorities, it's the utmost. For me, just to calm myself down, to keep my perspective when I'm playing, to not make too big a deal of it ... that's where I go to. The peace that comes with that allows me to play free golf.
Zach Johnson
#70. I want to play golf, practice and not do much else. I don't drink, I don't smoke and I hate going places where you have to yell at someone who is about a foot away from you.
Vijay Singh
#71. I try to exercise in nature, and I try to play golf once a month. The last time I played golf with my wife, however, she got better scores than me, which became an additional source of stress.
Shinzo Abe
#72. Michelle is 14. Give her a couple of years to get stronger. I mean, she can play on this tour. If she keeps working, keeps doing the right things, there's no reason why she shouldn't be out here.
Ernie Els
#73. I'm still no good at ball-and-stick games. If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke.
Neil Peart
#74. God is dead, haven't you heard, he died a hundred years ago, gave out
from sheer lack of interest, decided to play golf instead.
Janet Fitch
#75. I've always said the players don't build up rivalries themselves, people from the outside build up the rivalries. I just want to play good golf. I want to try and keep winning golf tournaments.
Rory McIlroy
#76. If we had to play Augusta National in one hour, the best athlete would win the Masters. But as it is, they give us time to hang ourselves. Every swing is a 'thought shot'. So instead of the best athlete, you end up with the best thinker as the winner.
Joe Inman
#77. I played golf with my friends, and then I started to play with the hustlers. And I learned a lot. I learned about golf; I learned about gambling. I learned about everything.
Donald Trump
#78. I started when I was three, and on some courses they wouldn't let me play because they said I was too little. They wouldn't accept that a child could play. So my parents had to argue at times with some people at golf courses so I could.
Matteo Manassero
#79. Watching Phil Mickelson play golf is like watching a drunk chasing a balloon near the edge of a cliff.
David Feherty
#80. There's going to be places where you can attack the golf course and there's going to be times where you've got to kind of bite your lip and play conservative and hit to certain spots on the green, get out of there with a par and move on.
Jim Furyk
#81. Golf isn't like other sports where you can take a player out if he's having a bad day. You have to play the whole game.
Phil Blackmar
#82. I don't play golf or tennis, I don't ski, I don't snowboard. If you love what you do, you never get enough of it.
Frankie Valli
#83. If a caddie can help you, you don't know how to play golf.
Dan Jenkins
#84. I don't play golf, and I'm not into horse racing.
Lloyd Dorfman
#85. Time management is probably the biggest thing I've had to learn to deal with being on the PGA Tour, whether it be media or figuring out how many weeks to play in a row. That's been the biggest adjustment, coming from amateur and college golf.
Rickie Fowler
#86. The average player would rather play than watch. Those who don't play can't possibly appreciate the subtleties of the game. Trying to get their attention with golf is like selling Shakespeare in the neighbourhood saloon.
Bob Toski
#87. Tiger had the advantage of high school, college, and a father who knew golf. I was self-taught. Blacks really won't play golf in great numbers until some of these basketball and football stars buy some golf courses where blacks can play.
Charlie Sifford
#89. 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
#90. I don't play golf. Mark Twain is golf to me.
Hal Holbrook
#91. I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all my life to retire to work. I enjoy working. It has kept me young and on the move, and I have had a good time with it.
Jack Nicklaus
#92. This is the substance of our Plot-For those who play the Perfect Shot, There are ten thousand who do not.
Grantland Rice
#93. I didn't get playing professional golf until I was 25 years old. And I always said that if I could make it work, I would play as long as I could walk.
Arnold Palmer
#94. It is a wonderful tribute to the game or to the dottiness of the people who play it that for some people somewhere there is no such thing as an insurmountable obstacle, an unplayable course, the wrong time of the day or year.
Alistair Cooke
#95. How much golf I actually play depends on whom you ask. My wife says I'm out there every day. If you ask me, the cricket is getting in the way of the golf.
Ricky Ponting
#96. Golf has always been a part of my life. My parents have footage of me in a walker swinging a plastic club. If I didn't play golf, I would have been a baseball player. I could sit and watch baseball all day.
Peter Uihlein
#97. So, you know, if, if I wanted to get up and just play golf one day, I would just get up and play golf. If I wanted to go to Vegas, I would just get up and go to Vegas.
Michael Phelps
#98. Your emotions are exposed when you play golf: humility, pride, anger, it all comes out with each swing. You lay it all on the line.
Bryant Gumbel
#99. When we watch pro golfers, we expect them to play well, to make the shots we know we can't, and to be entertaining. Their expectation, however, is very different. They expect to succeed!
Lorii Myers
#100. Extremely large greens breed slovenly play. When any green ceases to command respect, it loses its value as a test of that rarest of all strokes, the shot home.
A. W. Tillinghast
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