Top 100 Quotes About Golf
#1. It's amazing how many people beat you at golf now that you're no longer president.
George H. W. Bush
#2. Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.
Tiger Woods
#3. I like golf because you can be really terrible at it, and still not look much dorkier than anybody else.
Dave Barry
#4. Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's.
Grantland Rice
#5. You can't play enough golf or do any of those other things that fill that kind of excitement that coaching gave me in the big games.
Don Shula
#6. There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which is the most bitter.
Robert Browning
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. You're such a cheater. The best wood in your golf bag is your pencil!
Rex Pickett
#10. Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.
Caitlyn Jenner
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. I love swimming, tennis, and I am taking up golf. I am not serious about it, I just go to the range and practice. Other than that, I enjoy going to the movies and hanging out with my friends.
Mila Kunis
#16. I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.
Groucho Marx
#17. Titleist has offered me a big contract not to play its balls.
Bob Hope
#18. 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
#19. I don't play golf. I have more fun singing and dancing.
Dick Van Dyke
#20. How do you combat a man with a firearm? You don't combat him with a golf club, baseball bat or a knife. You combat him with another firearm.
Luke Scott
#21. You don't know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two bucks in your pocket.
Lee Trevino
#22. The game has such a hold on golfers because they compete not only against an opponent, but also against the course, against par, and most surely- against themselves.
Arnold Palmer
#23. If your golf instructor were to insist that you shave your head, sleep no more than four hours each night, renounce sex, and subsist on a diet of raw vegetables, you would find a new golf instructor. However, when gurus make demands of this kind, many of their students simply do as directed.
Sam Harris
#24. When I'm in a zone, I don't think about the shot or the wind or the distance or the gallery or anything; I just pull a club and swing.
Mark Calcavecchia
#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
#27. My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch.
Lee Trevino
#28. The arc of your swing doesn't have a thing to do with the size of your heart.
Carol Mann
#29. 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
#30. All four days I didn't think. I just hit. Squeaky (Medlen, his caddy) said 'kill' and I killed it.
John Daly
#31. I'll shoot my age if I have to live to be 105.
Bob Hope
#32. Women Who Seek Equality With Men Lack Ambition
Patty Sheehan
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
Jack Nicklaus
#37. I hate a hook. It nauseates me. I could vomit when I see one. It's like a rattlesnake in your pocket.
Ben Hogan
#38. If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and the families of the breed would be shipped off to the white slave corrals of Argentina.
H.L. Mencken
#39. The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me.
Simon Schama
#40. I think the hardest part about Golf is being committed to your wife
Tiger Woods
#41. 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
#42. Luke picked up a piece of paper lying on the seat. "Camden Hills Avenue in the Badlands Golf Club." Luke chuckled. "Going to find a criminal in the Badlands. It kind of has an ironic ring to it.
Amanda Carlson
#43. 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
#44. I hated golf when we first started, but a big part of the training process was falling in love with this sport, so I went on tour with the UCLA Team.
Shia Labeouf
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. I'm in love with golf, and I want everybody else to share my love affair.
Arnold Palmer
#48. There are no short hitters on the tour anymore - just long and unbelievably long.
Sam Snead
#49. I've had three broken legs and two knee replacements. But I'm very good at apres golf.
Letitia Baldrige
#50. Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.
Grantland Rice
#51. Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.
Winston Churchill
#52. The patience that goes with the game, the little things that go along with the game, you have so much more time to think in golf than you do in football - you have to keep your thoughts positive. I'm not sure I've got that mastered.
John Elway
#53. That divot is so deep, I will need a sod cutter to fix it.
Brian Weiss
#54. Golf. Trying to knock a tiny ball into an even smaller hole with implements ill suited to the purpose.
Winston Churchill
#55. I am tired of all these golfers who are happy with second place. The only one who will like you if you come in second place is your wife and your dog. And that is only if you have a good wife and a good dog.
Gary Player
#56. 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
#57. The pressures of business relationships: so I tell the guy I usually have my tea time at 10 o'clock every morning. He calls me at noon (very upset) because I didn't meet him on the golf course.
Eric Christopher Jackson
#58. The object of a bunker or trap is not only to punish a physical mistake, to punish lack of control, but also to punish pride and egotism.
Charles B. MacDonald
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. You know I need that cockiness, the self-belief, arrogance, swagger, whatever you want to call it, I need that on the golf course to bring the best out of myself. So you know once I leave the golf course, you know that all gets left there.
Rory McIlroy
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. I carry a golf ball to put under my feet when they get tight, and a Thera-Band for general stretching.
Jessica Ennis
#65. When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a ball game on the television.
Mackenzie Astin
#66. I like to try to give something back to the community because I feel fortunate for how I was raised and how my life turned out. Each year, with the help of my brother, Grant, we run a charity golf tournament to raise money for the Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy.
Curtis Joseph
#67. I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can.
Bo Jackson
#68. Golf is a game of endless failure and frustration.
Mike Greenberg
#69. But I do have time to pencil in golf, and we've got four excellent courses.
Darrell Royal
#70. 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
#71. I don't want people to watch the way I dress. I want people to watch the way I play.
Seve Ballesteros
#72. The only way I'll ever make the Ryder Cup team is when I become captain; then I can name myself to the team.
John Daly
#73. Somebody made the statement that Donald Trump has built or owns the greatest collection of golf courses, ever, in the history of golf. And I believe that is 100 percent true.
Donald Trump
#74. 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
#75. On that Sunday of the Masters I remember turning on ESPN to find people talking about me. I switched over to the Golf Channel and people were talking about me. It was hard to escape.
Rory McIlroy
#76. There are two things you can learn by stopping your backswing at the top and checking the position of your hands; how many hands you have, and which one is wearing the glove.
Tom Mulligan
#77. Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt.
Sam Snead
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. If you think your hands are more important in your golf swing than your legs, try walking a hole on your hands.
Gary Player
#82. I would like to deny all allegations by Bob Hope that during my last game of golf, I hit an eagle, a birdie, an elk and a moose.
Gerald R. Ford
#83. Putting is a fascinating, aggravating, wonderful, terrible and almost incomprehensible part of the game of golf.
Arnold Palmer
#84. You can't call it a sport. You don't run, jump, you don't shoot, you don't pass. All you have to do is buy some clothes that don't match.
Steve Sax
#85. Golf is not a fair game, so why build a course fair?
Pete Dye
#86. 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
#87. The first time I played golf was in Flushing Meadows, Queens, when I was about 16 or 17. They had an 18-hole pitch-and-putt. My buddies and I would hop the fence and sneak on and play.
Ray Romano
#88. I've gotten rid of the yips four times but they hang in there. You know those two-foot downhill putts with a break? I'd rather see a rattlesnake.
Sam Snead
#89. The mismanagement of American newspapering is quite remarkable. But all of the fellows responsible are now on a golf course in Hilton Head or some such (place), having secured their bonuses and golden-parachute buyouts.
David Simon
#90. Golf in India is considered an elite sport. It is not possible for everyone to play in private courses. We need to give opportunities to all who want to play the sport. And for that, we need public golf courses.
Jeev Milkha Singh
#91. 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
#92. You win all the Tucsons, all the Kemps, all the Iron City Opens you can, nobody remembers. You win a Masters, nobody ever forgets
Bob Goalby
#93. To be a top-class athlete, you have to train hard, you have to eat right, you have to get enough rest. I feel the way golf is going nowadays, you have to treat yourself as an athlete.
Rory McIlroy
#94. Every golfer has at least 14 enemies: his clubs.
Dan Jenkins
#95. 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
#97. I used to think that elder love, if it even existed, was confined to rocking chairs or golf carts, that it had to be a dull business because of the physical limitations of age.
Nora Johnson
#98. Golf is fluid. It's always changing. It's always evolving. First of all, you never master it.
Tiger Woods
#99. Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.
Dave Barry
#100. To me, life is like the back nine in golf. Sometimes you play better on the back nine. You may not be stronger, but hopefully you're wiser. And if you keep most of your marbles intact, you can add a note of wisdom to the coming generation.
Clint Eastwood
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