Playing Golf Sayings

#1. Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.

Winston Churchill

#2. Nothing impresses the ladies like a clean, pressed pair of khakis and a large pattern shirt featuring either classic cars, mojitos or men playing golf.

Tim Heidecker

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. I get way more nervous playing golf in front of 500 people than being on stage in front of 20,000 people.

Justin Timberlake

#6. It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.

Robert Wilson Lynd

#7. I have a project at HBO and one at the Family Channel coming that are being looked at. Aside from that I am not doing much more than playing golf and some skiing.

Gil Gerard

#8. I prefer to do cable TV because it allows you the time to do other things. I definitely have an eye on doing more work in features and playing different characters, but I am also a big fan of going on vacation and playing golf and going to the beach.

Bailey Chase

#9. I did not want to turn to playing golf because golf is about as much exercise as shuffling cards.

Bill Cosby

#10. You don't think anything about age when you're playing [golf]. I mean, why would you ever think about that.

Jack Nicklaus

#11. How can you get tired of playing golf?

Raymond Floyd

#12. I enjoy now doing what I do ... playing golf, relaxing a little, enjoying life.

Yogi Berra

#13. That's one of the things you get when you're playing golf. You get bad backs, bad necks.

Tom Watson

#14. I've spent more time playing golf than anything else the last 18 years. Just wanted to be an 80s-shooter. Got there, too.

Jack Nicholson

#15. I never got on the course with my dad, but to be playing golf with my kids - that's a dream.

Mark Wahlberg

#16. I've been playing golf a long time, although it's not really true that on my first round they strapped my bag on the back of a dinosaur.

Bob Hope

#17. The interesting thing is that everyone in golf is just nice. You learn a lot about people playing golf: their integrity, how they play under pressure.

Donald Trump

#18. My biggest hobby is playing golf, which I really enjoy. Now when I am lying in bed at night, unable to sleep, I find myself thinking about my golf swing. I'm also involved in the Tampa Bay chapter of First Tee.

Vinny Testaverde

#19. I would say that I bought the land under which Trump Tower sits while playing golf.

Donald Trump

#20. For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.

Dave Barry

#21. My parents lived by Rancho Park. And my mom, later in life, got into playing golf. She and her male cronies would get up at five in the morning and sneak onto the back nine. I kind of just started getting into it. For a long time, I was really puzzled by why people liked it.

Kim Gordon

#22. It's nice to worry about playing golf and not all the other stuff.

John Daly

#23. When I'm not acting, I'm playing golf. I'm pretty passionate about it.

Lucas Black

#24. I was playing golf. I swung, missed the ball, and got a big chunk of dirt. I swung again, missed the ball, and got another big chunk of dirt. Just then, 2 ants climbed on the ball saying, "Let's get up here before we get killed!"

Henny Youngman

#25. Polo is like playing golf with a saddle, and there are a lot of moving parts.

Joel Edgerton

#26. There were some summers when every boy in Ayrshire seemed to be playing golf, and my dad taught me. But he was a terrible teacher - of everything. Learning to drive with him almost killed me. He was the world's most impatient man - awful short fuse.

John Niven

#27. I like to have a sense of accomplishment through work. I'm busy golfing and attending activities, but I think of holding a meeting as playing golf. I think my approach is very good. I don't feel I lose a lot of fun things in life even though I am busy all day.

Liang Wengen

#28. I am very proud of the fact I do not cheat when I'm playing golf.

Barack Obama

#29. When I first started playing golf, I was heavily into softball and basketball.

Paula Creamer

#30. I wore that same shirt yesterday playing golf. There goes the Nike account.

Leslie Nielsen

#31. I've been in some seriously bad places playing golf and it's just part of the game. You're going to hit bad shots, you're going to be in bad spots, and each course, when you learn it, you learn where not to go.

Tiger Woods

#32. There's always motivation coming into Majors. If you can't get up and get excited to win one of these, then you probably shouldn't be playing golf.

Jason Dufner

#33. I started playing golf when I was a kid, because across the street from where we lived there was a little nine-hole golf course where my father worked.

Lewis Black

#34. There is one thing in this world that is dumber than playing golf. That is watching someone else playing golf. What do you actually get to see? Thirty-seven guys in polyester slacks squinting at the sun. Doesn't that set your blood racing?

Peter Andrews

#35. I suppose I could think of a lot of things to say about the fact that I still play. But I don't really need to. I can tell you this, that I enjoy it. I still enjoy it. I like to get out in the air and I like to walk and I like to do the things that are involved in playing golf.

Arnold Palmer

#36. I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.

Rafael Nadal

#37. They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why.

Alistair Cooke

#38. I'm just more into playing golf. It's a great thing.

Kenny G

#39. Playing golf is like going to a strip joint. After 18 holes you are tired and most of your balls are missing.

Tim Allen

#40. Show me a man who is a good loser and I'll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss.

James Patrick Murray

#41. By the time I retire, I will have fought the best. I will have made my money. Maybe I'll be a boxing commentator. I'll go back to school, definitely. I already have a plan. My life's set. I'll be on an island, married, playing golf in the sun. That will be my life.

Oscar De La Hoya

#42. Playing golf is not hot work. Cutting sugar cane for a dollar a day - that's hot work. Hotter than my first wrist watch.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

#43. It's a torture chamber, if we had to play it every day I don't think I'd be playing golf.

Ian Woosnam

#44. 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

#45. I definitely have an eye on doing more work in features and playing different characters, but I am also a big fan of going on vacation and playing golf and going to the beach. With anything, it's about finding the balance.

Bailey Chase

#46. I was detained a couple of times but that was for not handing in homework because I was playing golf or not present because I was playing golf. There was a theme evolving.

Rory McIlroy

#47. President Obama and his family are spending the holidays in Hawaii, and while they're gone, they got a fence jumper to house sit. Tomorrow, he will be in Hawaii playing golf with Raul Castro and the Pope.

David Letterman

#48. I always thought of myself as some sort of athlete until I started playing golf a couple years ago.

James Caan

#49. You can always spot the employee playing golf with his boss. He's the fellow who makes a hole in one and says, "oops!"

Bob Monkhouse

#50. I've been playing golf as long as I've been dancing, since I was 13 or 14. I play off six. I like to get out on a golf course as often as I can.

Anton Du Beke

#51. If I did that, playing golf would drive me crazy.

John Nestor

#52. I've had the luxury of playing golf around the world, and I've spent a lot of time evaluating how to play all kinds of courses.

Tiger Woods

#53. I don't want some mom, whose son may have recently died, to see the commander in chief playing golf.

George W. Bush

#54. I've never liked playing golf. I prefer to be on the treadmill to keep in shape.

Robert Budi Hartono

#55. I'll tell you what, I've been in some seriously bad places playing golf and it's just part of the game.

Tiger Woods

#56. And you fathers, are you so busy making a living, playing golf, bowling, hunting, that you do not have time to talk to your boys and hold them close to you and win their confidence? Or do you brush them off, so that they dare not come and talk about these things with you?

Spencer W. Kimball

#57. The only really unplayable lie I can think of is when you're supposed to be playing golf and come home with lipstick on your collar.

Arnold Palmer

#58. I started playing golf at about four years old.

Guan Tianlang

#59. I found a 1992 New York Times article:Bill Clinton playing golf at a club that he played at all of his adult life as governor, that didn't allow black membership! I guarantee most Americans don't know that.

Sean Hannity

#60. I was playing golf in Palm Springs and after a round I asked the waitress in a restaurant to bring me a glass of iced tea and lemonade. A lady sitting nearby heard me and asked the waitress to bring her a "Palmer," too. The name caught on and the beverage quickly spread around the country.

Arnold Palmer

#61. I wasn't this nervous playing golf when I was drinking. It's the first tournament I've won on the PGA Tour in a sober manner, so it's a great feeling knowing I can do it sober. I don't think two years ago I could have pulled this off.

John Daly

#62. My son's an idiot. He sprained his ankle playing golf. He fell off the ballwasher.

Rodney Dangerfield

#63. My grandson Sam Saunders has been playing golf since he could hold a club and I spent a lot of time with him over the years. Like my father taught me, I showed him the fundamentals of the game and helped him make adjustments as he and his game matured over the years.

Arnold Palmer

#64. I found out retirement means playing golf, or I don't know what the hell it means. But to me, retirement means doing what you have fun doing.

Dick Van Dyke

#65. You go through slumps in this game, and you just have to work through them. You're going to miss putts out on an LPGA tour and have bad rounds. You just have to think to yourself that you always have tomorrow, and you're lucky enough to be out here just playing golf for a living.

Lexi Thompson

#66. I started playing golf because I wanted to be good. After a while, you have to come to a decision of, 'Am I good enough or not?' If you say 'yes,' then it's a simple step towards deciding to be as good as you can be.

Tom Lehman

#67. I'm the captain of the Variety Club over in England, and so I'm playing golf for them once a week but doing odd bits.

Kevin Whately

#68. The real way to enjoy playing golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes.

Bobby Jones

#69. Playing golf is like raising children. You keep thinking you'll do better next time.

Charles E. McKenzie

#70. Dick is playing golf today. He asked if I would caddie for him, but I said I would prefer to have a complete stranger walk up and drill holes in my head with a Black & Decker.

Gillibran Brown

#71. Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

Bill Simmons

#72. I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.

Taylor Cole

#73. To me, the most unhappy people in the world are the people ... in Palm Beach- Going to parties every night. Playing golf every afternoon, then bridge. [They have] no purpose.

Richard M. Nixon

#74. Sometimes, all the interviews, those are the toughest thing for me, but once you really start to do it a lot and start to get used to it, I can find some fun in those parts, too. Because playing golf is the easiest thing for me, and that's something I'm so used to; that's why it was always easy.

Inbee Park

#75. I am relying on the theory that playing golf is just like riding a bike and that I haven't forgotten how.

Jennifer Wyatt

#76. Playing golf is like eating. It's something which has to come naturally.

Sam Snead

#77. A lot of people still disregard something like yoga. I would have as a young player. I would have been too busy playing golf or something.

Gary Speed

#78. Talking about golf is always boring. Playing golf can be interesting, but not the part where you try to hit the little ball; only the part where you drive the cart.

Dave Barry

#79. I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait.

Cameron Diaz

#80. I don't want to coach too far into my 60s. By then, I'll be playing golf four or five times a week.

Steve Spurrier

#81. I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations - that's why we got married really quickly.

Sean Connery

#82. While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.

Henny Youngman

#83. I'm not interested at all in playing more than 12, 15 tournaments a year on an annual basis because like all the old guys out here on this Tour, we've played golf for nearly 30 years of our lives.

Greg Norman

#84. 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

#85. 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

#86. No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why golf is the greatest of games. You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.

Bobby Jones

#87. 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

#88. 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

#89. When I was a little girl in Savannah playing, there were never enough hours in the day or holes on the golf course. I just loved the game so much.

Hollis Stacy

#90. 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

#91. 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

#92. 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

#93. I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.

Jack Nicklaus

#94. Instead of playing with army men or whatever, I played golf, like for hours every day.

Bubba Watson

#95. I don't enjoy playing video golf because there is nothing to throw.

Paul Azinger

#96. I feel more strongly than ever about this. I would like the professional game freed of golf carts. Golf is a physical game. If we are playing competitive professional golf, we should walk. When I can't walk 18 holes, I'll pack it in.

Arnold Palmer

#97. 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

#98. It is never easy to win but it is a lot easier to win when you play well. The key is winning golf tournaments when you are not playing so well. Managing your game is something that I feel that I am still learning to do.

Rory McIlroy

#99. Kids below 10 or 12, I think they just need to learn by playing at golf. Later on, in high school, when they develop muscles and everything, that's when they need to see about getting lessons.

Bubba Watson

#100. I like the thought of playing for money instead of silverware. I never did like to polish.

Patty Sheehan