Top 100 Play Golf Quotes
#2. I spend time with my family. I have got two daughters who are too young to know their Dad's a footballer. They just want to play with their Dad. I like to play golf, too, but apart from that, that's me, I'm afraid.
Alan Shearer
#3. The doctor didn't want me to play golf anymore and was worried about me fly-fishing. Golf is something I enjoy, but fly-fishing is a different thing: That's religion. Hunting is religion for me. I didn't want to give those up.
Tom Brokaw
#4. I think the best thing is being able to play golf competitively for a living. Ever since I was a little boy, that's something I've always wanted to do, and now I get a chance to live out my dreams.
Tiger Woods
#5. When I was playing football, I always felt in complete control. When I play golf and come under pressure, it's a completely different ball game.
Alan Hansen
#6. Not one person from the music world has ever come with - as if I could get a rock'n'roller up at four in the morning to play golf - but that's fine. I have way too much going on to sit around waiting for tee time at two in the afternoon.
Buzz Osborne
#7. There are a lot of things in life way more important than money. All that said, some people do get confused. I play golf with a man who says, " What good is health? You can't buy money with it."
Charlie Munger
#8. I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
Ben Hogan
#9. I'll be glad to leave here. I feel like eating palm trees. I don't like this place. It's for people with arthritis. They come here to play golf and to die.
Ernie Holmes
#10. 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
#11. Wherever we play golf, people come out here to get autographs. They obviously come out to watch us play and see us in action, but they also want to interact with us.
Bernhard Langer
#12. 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
#13. I love the house that I've been living in for over 40 years. I really am a homebody and I still love to play golf.
Johnny Mathis
#14. I've got two girls. I like to play golf. Apart from that there's not a lot goes on in my life. So I am boring, aren't I?
Alan Shearer
#15. I don't like going to the mall. I'm not really like the other girls. I just like to go out on the golf course and play. Golf is fun and feels really good.
Michelle Wie
#16. 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
#17. That's my goal-more public courses in Mexico. I want to make sure little kids in Mexico can play golf.
Lorena Ochoa
#18. You may be sick of what you did the first half of your life, but you don't have to just walk around and play golf or doing nothing. It's not like fifty is the new thirty. It's like fifty is the new chapter.
Sharon Stone
#19. Sports formed me. I was always decently skilled but lacked size, so I had to resort to using my skill versus my power. I strategically play golf because that's all I can do. It's the same on the basketball court. I try to get open and shoot it. Or I use the open space on the soccer field.
Zach Johnson
#20. 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
#21. The end of the story of Batman is he's dead. Because, in the end, the Batman dies. What else am I going to do? Retire and play golf? It doesn't work that way. It can't. I fight until I drop. And one day, I will drop.
Neil Gaiman
#22. One of the big changes in the Congress since I first came to Washington is that all of these folks go home every weekend. They used to play golf together; their families got to know each other, go to dinner at each other's homes at weekends - and these would be people who were political adversaries.
Robert M. Gates
#23. The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
Hunter S. Thompson
#24. 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
#26. It's great to have a lot of support; people recognizing what you're doing out there and identifying with you in whatever way they see fit is a great fit, I think, and for me it's neat, for people to want to come to the golf course and watch me play golf.
Jason Dufner
#27. We don't have to do a bunch of things to figure out how to win the Ryder Cup. Just go play golf ... I'm a little bit too casual probably about a lot of things, but you can't force good play. Good play comes from good hard work and actually being prepared to play, not being forced to play.
Jack Nicklaus
#28. I don't play golf competitively. I tell everybody that I cheat so they won't gamble with me. That's why you can't watch football. Everybody's gambling. They don't want to watch the game; they watch the spread.
Jack Nicholson
#30. I will say I love competing, and I was in a great era of playing with young Phil Mickelson and older Greg Norman and Nick Price. I don't know if YA Title could throw the ball these days, but you can play golf for a long, long time.
Fred Couples
#31. I don't play golf. Mark Twain is golf to me.
Hal Holbrook
#32. Summer I was 13, my grandfather and my father taught me how to play golf. I took lessons that summer, and I played every day that summer. I probably would've kept playing, except I realized that girls don't watch golf; they watch tennis. So I let my golf game go dormant and started playing tennis.
Thomas Gibson
#33. 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
#35. 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
#36. I asked my priest if it was a sin to play golf on Sunday. And he said, "It's a sin for you to play anytime."
Nick Saban
#37. Even in high school, I'd tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She wasn't too happy. She'd say, 'Think about this.' And I'd always end up getting back in the pool.
Michael Phelps
#39. Some people like to play golf; I like to come to work.
Tom Benson
#40. When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you're in this little bubble when you're working - you don't read books, you don't really keep up with the news, you're just living that life.
Taylor Kitsch
#41. I don't play golf, and I'm not into horse racing.
Lloyd Dorfman
#42. When you - when you play golf with somebody, you spend four hours or more walking with somebody, usually, you learn something about them that you didn't know before.
Tom Lehman
#43. If a caddie can help you, you don't know how to play golf.
Dan Jenkins
#44. I love to play golf, and that's my arena. And you can characterize it and describe it however you want, but I have a love and a passion for getting that ball in the hole and beating those guys.
Tiger Woods
#45. 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
#46. I think I was given a gift to play golf and to be mentally strong.
Karrie Webb
#47. Golf inflicts more pain than any other sport. If you're the sort of person whose self-worth is tied up in how you play, golf will cut you to the core of who you are.
James E. Loehr
#48. We all know, the ones who play golf, know what a wonderful game it is and what a great past-time it is.
Bernhard Langer
#49. When you make a mistake, the ocean gives you an instant reminder. You get punished. If golf clubs could shock you every time you hit the ball wrong, we'd probably learn how to play golf pretty well.
Laird Hamilton
#50. Watching Phil Mickelson play golf is like watching a drunk chasing a balloon near the edge of a cliff.
David Feherty
#51. I found that golf saved me from going to the pub every day, so instead, I play golf with other unemployed actors. I'm a member of the Stage Golfing Society, and I play golf with all sorts of people.
Phil Daniels
#52. There would be nothing to get me to run for president. I don't even understand how anyone would want that job at all. Although I would be able to play golf which I don't seem to have time now.
Ellen DeGeneres
#53. I like the Miami because I could play golf all winter.
Arnold Palmer
#54. For one thing, I like to walk when I play golf. Now I don't walk the whole way, but I try not to be the driver when in a cart.
Darrell Royal
#55. I like to play golf. I like to cut my own grass.
John Boehner
#56. I play golf for a living. I'm grateful for that. It's a beautiful game, provides a great opportunity.
Zach Johnson
#58. 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
#59. Doesn't it show us all that we are silly little boys or fatuous asses to think that we can play golf without making a lot of bad shots?
Bobby Jones
#60. I never taught my girls to play golf; they all played softball.
Nancy Lopez
#61. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. You know the way I play golf, it's a good I do these things for charities.
Joe Mantegna
#66. All my life I wanted to play golf like Jack Nicklaus, and now I do.
Paul Harvey
#67. I still enjoy what I'm doing, which is building businesses. I don't play golf. I don't have any particular passion apart from my business and my family, and that gives me all the pleasure that I want.
Christoffel Wiese
#68. I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.
Ian Botham
#69. Who wants a life of ease? And who wants a life in the office that you hate, and who wants to play golf?
Sebastian Junger
#70. Everyone gets surprised because neither one of my parents play golf. Like I said in my speech, my aunt and uncle really love golf, and we visited them, and she gave me two clubs. Like people think when they don't know who my dad is, they think he's my coach.
Lydia Ko
#71. I have no interest in owning a football club; I don't play golf; I don't like horseracing and I'd rather become a professional bungee jumper than enter politics.
Lloyd Dorfman
#72. All I want to do is do my shows and play golf.
Mickey Gilley
#73. I like to play golf, but not at a country club.
Roger Wang
#74. When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars - that's heaven here on earth.
Bernie Mac
#75. One of my favorite things to do is play golf at Braemar Country Club. It's quiet and not overly crowded. The people are nice, and there's wildlife all around the course. As far as my game itself, I can go from a 10 handicap to a 30, depending on the day.
Scott Baio
#76. I bleed all the time. I play golf and stuff, so there's always something, nicks and stuff here and there.
O.J. Simpson
#77. A pretty girl will always have the toughest time learning to play golf, because every man wants to give her lessons.
Harvey Penick
#78. 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
#79. I don't have a lot of hobbies. I don't play golf. I don't have any children. Things that occupy people's time. I just try to take jobs.
Christopher Walken
#80. I don't think much about my physical body going off into the long, green fairways of Heaven to play golf.
John Shelby Spong
#82. Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you.
Hal Linden
#83. 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
#84. I sit at home and read books. I watch movies. I watch television. I go and play golf. I don't go to nightclubs. I don't go out to dinner that often. I'm not a big party guy.
Samuel L. Jackson
#85. I play golf just about every week. I'm playing on the Senior Tour now - super seniors - I'm a super senior.
Charlie Sifford
#86. I learned you can't drink whiskey and play golf.
John Daly
#87. I used to play golf with a guy who cheated so badly that he once had a hole in one and wrote down zero on the scorecard.
Bob Bruce
#88. If I can raise more money for charities, or get more Canadian kids to play golf, the green jacket will mean even more.
Mike Weir
#89. I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that's for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn't play golf.
Lou Holtz
#90. 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
#91. Einstein is notmerely an artist in his moments of leisure and play, as a great statesman may play golf or a great soldier grow orchids. He retains the same attitude in the whole of his work. He traces science to its roots in emotion, which is exactly where art is also rooted.
Havelock Ellis
#92. Most people who play golf have one big trouble: they think too much. To get any real mileage out of this game you've got to sit on your imagination.
Sam Snead
#93. You have Obama that wants to play golf instead of deal with people.
Donald Trump
#95. I try to go out, check out the town, and have a good time. It's a life experience: not everyone gets the chance to see the world and play golf, do the thing you love while travelling.
Peter Uihlein
#96. I sort of play golf because a lot of my friends are into it, but I'm awful - my handicap is about six or seven thousand.
Dennis Lehane
#97. I play golf, and I play chess, and sometimes I go to the gym. On the airplane or between acts when I do the performance, I play Candy Crush to forget what happens around me, just to be alone, not thinking ... You need to clear your brain.
Ildar Abdrazakov
#98. To find a man's true character, play golf with him.
P.G. Wodehouse
#99. 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
#100. The right way to play golf is to go up and hit the bloody thing.
George Duncan
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