Quotes About Golf

#1. Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf

Cecil Purdy

#2. Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?

Al Boliska

#3. Golf course design is exciting.

Tom Kite

#4. It's great to be somewhat of a role model. I want to be a positive and good role model and lead by example and try to do the best I can. Playing good golf definitely draws attention, but I want to have a good attitude on the course and do the right things.

Rickie Fowler

#5. 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

#6. Companies need to have a lot more flexibility with their people ... If somebody wants to golf around the world for two months, okay, well, maybe on an unpaid basis, let them do it. That sort of flexibility I think is incredibly important because most of our time, we spend at work.

Richard Branson

#7. That's my goal-more public courses in Mexico. I want to make sure little kids in Mexico can play golf.

Lorena Ochoa

#8. The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.

Vince Gill

#9. I'm not a golf player. I think golf and fishing are the same, but at the end of the day, you can't fry up and golf ball and dip it in tartar sauce. So I'm a fisherman.

Daymond John

#10. 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

#11. I am ashamed to report that my father, who is 73, has never been beaten by any of his four sons in golf. We have all become resigned to the fact that he has determined that he won't be beaten.

Robert Kennedy

#12. There are plenty of guys who played great golf, had great careers and only won a few majors.

Johnny Miller

#13. He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.

Jack Nicklaus

#14. Back horses or go down to Throgmorton Street and try to take it away from the Rothschilds, and I will applaud you as a shrewd and cautious financier. But to bet at golf is pure gambling.

P.G. Wodehouse

#15. The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

Ernest Hemingway,

#16. 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

#17. Golf tip: Lay off for three weeks and then quit for good.

Sam Snead

#18. 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

#19. The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.

Sam Snead

#20. I've always - I grew up on the old-style traditional type of golf course, tree lined and all small greens, big undulations. And Oakmont just fit my eye.

Paula Creamer

#21. We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress, in scholastic grades or golf scores. One is often tempted to say that conflict, rather than cooperation, is the great governing principle of human life.

S.I. Hayakawa

#22. You build a golf game like you build a wall, one brick at a time.

Tony Lema

#23. You should welcome getting older in golf. With greater knowledge of your swing, you, too, can keep improving.

Angel Cabrera

#24. I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it.

John Wooden

#25. Media access to us is more regulated than in golf.

Pete Sampras

#26. You've got to gamble every once in a while in a round of golf. I'm not afraid to screw up.

Fuzzy Zoeller

#27. When I'd get out of school in the afternoon, I would go to the golf course, and I just picked the game up. And when I was 13 years old, I could shoot 70 - even-par 71, one over par and then something like that. I just took a liking to the game.

Charlie Sifford

#28. A lot of people think jugglers defy gravity or do stuff. Well, I kind of, from my childhood and golf and all that, it's a process of joining with forces.

Michael Moschen

#29. If there is one thing golf demands above all else, it is honesty.

Jack Nicklaus

#30. I'm not going to lie, I love TV. I watch a ton of it - golf, HGTV, football.

Charles Kelley

#31. I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.

Stephen Leacock

#32. When it comes to golf, Scottish people are famously reserved, undemonstrative, difficult to impress. Golf is like church in Scotland, church like golf.

Joe Posnanski

#33. Having so many gold courses so close together was ideal for me. With my slice I could enjoy three or four golf courses at the same time.

Bob Hope

#34. For me, 'choking' is just another term in golf.

Johnny Miller

#35. Women's golf definitely hit a bump in the road. We lost some tournaments due to a combination of things led by the downturn in the economy.

Hollis Stacy

#36. Obviously it's my second senior event, and I'm tired obviously coming back from the British Open, from surgery, which was priority No. 1, did that successfully, and each week since the British Open I've felt in pretty good control of my golf game.

Greg Norman

#37. If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.

Calvin Peete

#38. The kids say golf taught them this and that. I get it with the military: A guy joins the military because he needs discipline and has to find himself. But don't tell me, 'Golf helps you find yourself.' I've been playing my whole life, and I'm still looking for myself.

Lewis Black

#39. I can honestly say in my entire career, I've never gone around a golf course and not mis-hit a shot, but today I never missed a shot. I hit every driver perfect, every iron perfect. I'm in awe of myself.

Greg Norman

#40. One of the reserves came up to me and said 'I'm finding it a bit hard, it's the first time I've ever been dropped'. So I told him to do what Nick Faldo does and work at his game. Next thing I know he's doing exactly what Faldo does, he's taken up golf.

Ron Atkinson

#41. No, I don't have any problems leaving disappointments behind. I've had lots of good days at golf and a few disappointments, so you never know what's around the corner.

Lee Westwood

#42. I played a lot of other sports at school and just one day the golf bug bit me and I started playing serious golf from when I was ten years old.

Retief Goosen

#43. President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner played golf this weekend. Obama's handicap is Joe Biden.

Jay Leno

#44. All of a sudden I'm an expert on everything. Interviewers want your opinion on golf, foreign policy and even the price of peanuts.

Hubert Green

#45. It's easy at times to win golf tournaments and shoot 59, and sometimes it's hard to post an 85.

David Duval

#46. Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.

Celine Dion

#47. Who watches golf on TV? Who calls eight friends over and gets a keg of beer? Landscapers, I guess. They sit around the TV, yelling, "Will you look at that golf path?Pure pea gravel."

Jeff Cesario

#48. I thought I would just become a pro at a golf course.

Boo Weekley

#49. 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

#50. He knows all the golf lingo. You know? You hit your ball, he's like "there's a golf shot. That's a golf shot." Well of course it's a golf shot; I just hit a golf ball. You don't see Gretzky skating around going "there's a hockey shot, that's a hockey shot."

Bill Engvall

#51. 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

#52. Golf requires only a few simple Rules and Regulations to guide the players in the true nature of its sporting appeal. The spirit of the game is its own referee.

Robert Harris

#53. 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

#54. As a kid, I might have been psycho, I guess, but I used to throw golf balls in the trees and try and somehow make par from them. I thought that was fun.

Tiger Woods

#55. Like one's own children, golf has an uncanny way of endearing itself to us while at the same time evoking every weakness of mind and character, no matter how well hidden.

Timothy Gallwey

#56. It is true that my predecessor did not object, as I do, to pictures of one's golf skill in action. But neither, on the other hand, did he ever bean a Secret Serviceman.

John F. Kennedy

#57. When Frank Broyles coached at Arkansas, he used to have a golf tournament each year for all the Southwest Conference coaches.

Joe Jamail

#58. One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.

John Gunther

#59. You're the only one in control over your golf ball. It's not like tennis: you're hitting a shot and somebody's hitting it back at you.

Lee Westwood

#60. Golf is a difficult game, but it's a little easier if you trust your instincts. It's too hard a game to try to play like someone else.

Nancy Lopez

#61. Augusta National is a young man's golf course, and you really need a young man's nerves to play on it.

Jack Nicklaus

#62. The game of golf was bigger than Jack Nicklaus when Jack was dominating the game.

Tim Finchem

#63. 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

#64. Golf never ceases to be a challenge, even when it really is just you and the ball out there and nobody else.

Arnold Palmer

#65. In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.

Bobby Jones

#66. Goddamn golf shirts and gym memberships and fake muscles and tans and cell phones and new cars. Trevor didn't care about any of that garbage. All he wanted was a garden. Isn't that funny?

Nickolas Butler

#67. 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

#68. Hopper's best friend, Dean Stockwell, who starred with him in 'Blue Velvet,' let me watch golf with him while parsing out memories of when he and Hopper went off the deep end in Mexico.

Tom Folsom

#69. 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

#70. Who listens to golfers? They're boring. If I want to wear camouflage on the golf course during a tournament, I will. And I have.

Bubba Watson

#71. Be funny on a golf course? Do I kid my best friend's mother about her heart condition?

Phil Silvers

#72. Golf is something I do selfishly for myself.

Tiger Woods

#73. 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

#74. Golf is just for fun. I have no time to be a pro golfer, not even after F1. I think it's too late and I'm too old to learn now. Golf is just a hobby and maybe I can improve a little bit more.

Heikki Kovalainen

#75. The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

H.G.Wells

#76. It's Star Wars golf. This place was designed by Darth Vader.

Ben Crenshaw

#77. Golf is an arrogant, elitist game that takes up entirely too much space in this country.

George Carlin

#78. After all these years, it's still embarrassing for me to play on the American golf tour. Like the time I asked my caddie for a sand wedge and he came back ten minutes later with a ham on rye.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

#79. I love being on the water, wakesurfing and wakeboarding. I'm not thinking about golf. I'm just wondering if my cooler's got enough ice to make it through the day.

Dustin Johnson

#80. I wouldn't have raced a horse. But you'll then throw back at me that Jesse Owens raced against a horse, and he's one of my heroes, so I'm not going to say it was a silly stunt. I know too much about horses. They're highly unreliable, and they've got brains the size of golf balls.

Sebastian Coe

#81. Real golf is the 20 million people who play once a week or once a month.

Dan Jenkins

#82. Family comes first, and golf is second.

Jason Day

#83. 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

#84. I'm proud to partner with organizations that place an emphasis on and share my interest in giving back to the community. RBC has a rich history of doing this through their sponsorship of golf and the extensive ambassadorial program they have in place.

Jason Day

#85. There are so many aspects of the game that you can work on - you can drive it father, you can drive it straighter, you can hit your irons higher and more consistently, you can get better with your wedges, and you can always putt better. There's never an end to that striving to get better in golf.

Matt Kuchar

#86. There are so many lessons in life that can be learned through golf. I am not afraid to say that I am still learning some of them and probably will continue for some time.

Paula Creamer

#87. Golf is said to be an humbling game, but it is surprising how many people are either not aware of their weaknesses of else reckless of consequences.

Bobby Jones

#88. I expect myself to do well. I'm not, like, 'Oh, well.' I'm not in that category just yet. I don't play great golf a lot anymore. I do it every now and then. I finished third in the British Open last year, so I know I can still do it.

Fred Couples

#89. Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Mark Twain

#90. Confidence is king in golf.

Jason Dufner

#91. Everyone has something that they desperately need that makes them feel good, that they don't want anything to get in the way of. Whether it's a man's golf game, whether it's a woman's cooking. I have a friend who has to clean. She's addicted to cleaning.

Tasha Smith

#92. There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

Lee Trevino

#93. Golf is very much like a love affair. If you don't take it seriously, it's no fun, if you do, it breaks your heart. Don't break your heart, but flirt with the possibility.

Louise Suggs

#94. My dad always said, 'Beware of the guy who comes out on the first tee and he's got a terrible grip and a terrible golf swing. If he's in that tournament with you, there's a good chance he knows how to play with that type of golf swing,' and Bubba's that type of person," he said.

Golf Channel Staff

#95. Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.

Ben Hogan

#96. The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.

Confucius

#97. In golf, as in no other sport, your principal opponent is youself.

Herbert Wind

#98. I compare the pressure of a golf shot with making an extra point in basketball. The player starts from a full stop, and that rim doesn't move.

Harvey Penick

#99. A golf course should aspire to generate as much energy as it consumes - golf should be leading the way toward energy net zero.

Thomas Friedman

#100. Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.

Samuel Johnson