Professional Golf Quotes

#1. 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

#2. People ask me, 'Would you ever want to play professional golf?' And I'm like, 'No. No, no, no, no. Just because I can hit a good shot every now and then doesn't make me a pro.'

Mia Hamm

#3. Playing from deep grass is a fact of life in professional golf.

Ernie Els

#4. 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

#5. I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. I guess I'm kind of the feel-good story who's seen every level of professional golf.

Zach Johnson

#6. I love nothing more than being in the last group on Sunday at the Masters. It's the greatest thing in professional golf.

Louis Oosthuizen

#7. I think travel is probably the downside of playing professional golf, but you've got to do it.

Karrie Webb

#8. Playing on the PGA Tour and playing professional golf, I think it's what everyone has dreamed of doing - all the guys who are out here. I'm just happy to be able to call this a job, if you want to call it a job.

Rickie Fowler

#9. Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.

Jack Nicklaus

#10. I'm afraid there are no replays or second chances in amateur or professional golf, and that's the way it should be.

Rory McIlroy

#11. Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren't penalized for being on grass.

Bob Hope

#12. I never knew what top golf was like until I turned professional. Then it was too late.

Steve Melnyk

#13. 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

#14. The fact is all golfers are equipment junkies and professional golfers are the worst of the lot. They'll do anything to find the perfect putter even though they'll insist no such instrument exists.

Dave Marr

#15. Two things that are not long for this world: dogs that chase cars and professional golfers who putt for pars.

Lee Trevino

#16. 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

#17. Golf is the only sport that a professional can enjoy playing with his friends.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

#18. 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

#19. Dennis Murray is a wonderful Golf Professional who is personable and skillful as an instructor. Dennis helped me work on my golf swing for a full week back in the 80's when I was still playing the PGA Tour. His instruction was great and helped my game very much.

Jerry Pate

#20. The player had almost as much fun as the parent and coaches. This league is well worth the time the professionals put into it. I would encourage any professional to host a team.

Casey Barnes

#21. We've got to abide by the rules. We have to protect it. The game of golf at a professional level is so clean. We are our own judge, jury and executioner. If we don't do what we think is right, the game might get away from us.

Greg Norman

#22. Even when times were good, I realized that my earning power as a golf professional depended on too many ifs and putts.

Gene Sarazen

#23. Plausible that a professional pitcher with some time to practice could throw a golf ball faster than a baseball.

Randall Munroe

#24. I guess I'm not a professional's professional. I think I'd rather go to the dentist than play a practice round.

Laura Davies

#25. You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.

Dan Jenkins

#26. Like most professional golfers, I have a tendency to remember my poor shots a shade more vividly than the good ones.

Ben Hogan

#27. He was a professional athlete and coach, a Ferrari who lived his life in the fast lane. She was a girl-next-door kind of girl, closer to a golf cart than a sports car.

Emily March

#28. If there is one thing I have learned during my years as a professional, it is that the only thing constant about golf is its inconstancy.

Jack Nicklaus

#29. This 90/10 rule holds true in almost anything financial. Take the game of golf, for example. Ten percent of the professional golfers make 90 percent of the money.

Robert Kiyosaki

#30. 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

#31. The life of a professional golfer is precarious at best. Win, and they carry you to the clubhouse on their shoulders. Lose, and you pay the caddies in the dark.

Gene Sarazen