Quotes About Golf Balls

#1. My doctor asked me how many golf balls I had hit in my career. I'm lying there in bed calculating somewhere between four and five million golf balls I had hit to do that on my body.

Greg Norman

#2. In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and then close his mouth all the way. I tried it but could get only two in there.

Gary McCord

#3. Al Sharpton chases the spotlight the way Obama chases golf balls

Greg Gutfeld

#4. 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

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

Lee Trevino

#6. 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

#7. You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours.

Robin Yount

#8. You look out on the driving range and it looks like snow, but it isn't, it's covered in golf balls.

John Scott

#9. It's considered good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

Mark Twain

#10. As if we don't have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament.

Barbara Bush

#11. I do try to work out a little. I go swimming twice a day. It beats buying golf balls.

Bob Hope

#12. For all the fun, don't forget: I always knew when to put my golf balls down and practice.

Ernie Els

#13. If you look at eggs, you will see that each one is almost round but not quite ... Nature's way of distinguishing eggs from large golf balls.

Robert Benchley

#14. Coretta Scott King was all about her pearl earrings. At one point, I'm wearing pearl earrings the size of golf balls. They're enormous! She was bold-she knew that she was the Jackie Kennedy of her community.

Carmen Ejogo

#15. Always keep in mind that if God didn't want a man to have mulligans, golf balls wouldn't come three to a sleeve.

Dan Jenkins

#16. And the wind shall say: 'Here were decent Godless people:
Their only monument the asphalt road
And a thousand lost golf balls.

T. S. Eliot

#17. It's hard to believe a kid hitting golf balls in the cow pastures of New Mexico could have accomplished what I have accomplished.

Billy Casper

#18. Short putts are missed because it is not physically possible to make the little ball travel over uncertain ground for three or four feet with any degree of regularity.

Walter Hagen

#19. I had a wonderful experience on the golf course today. I had a hole in nothing. Missed the ball and sank the divot.

Don Adams

#20. He told me just to keep the ball low.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

#21. You've just one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you've hit it.

Sam Snead

#22. Fairway: a narrow strip of mown grass that separates two groups of golfers looking for lost balls in the rough.

Henry Beard

#23. You hear stories about me beating my brains out practising, but the truth is, I was enjoying myself. I couldn't wait to get up in the morning, so I could hit balls. When I'm hitting the ball where I want, hard and crisply, it's a joy that very few people experience.

Ben Hogan

#24. You can't lose an old golf ball.

John A. Willis

#25. A ball will always come to rest halfway down a hill, unless there is sand or water at the bottom.

Henry Beard

#26. It's so bad I could putt off a tabletop and still leave the ball halfway down the leg.

J. C. Snead

#27. Golf is golf. You hit the ball, you go find it. Then you hit it again.

Lon Hinkle

#28. Bagger Vance: Don't make no sense is all ... Man say he don't play no golf when he out here this shade of night hittin balls off in the dark where he can't even see 'em ...
Rannulph Junuh: Yep ... Well, I've done things that have made less sense ...
Bagger Vance: As we all have ...

Steven Pressfield

#29. I still swing the way I used to, but when I look up the ball is going in a different direction.

Lee Trevino

#30. I did not see the sense in chasing a little white ball around a field.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Henny Youngman

#32. If only I kept my eye on the ball, Looking downward as does the pro there, I might not see where it was going, at all, But there might be a chance it would go there.

Richard Armour

#33. He hits the ball 130 yards and his jewelry goes 150.

Bob Hope

#34. I've come to realize that I perform best when I'm letting my subconscious mind hit the ball and my conscious mind is otherwise occupied.

Al Geiberger

#35. I didn't hit the ball like I was 46. But I putted like I was 66.

Fred Couples

#36. I didn't miss the putt. I made the putt. The ball missed the hole.

Peter Jacobsen

#37. If he takes the option of dropping behind the point where the ball rests, keeping in line with the pin, his nearest drop is Honolulu.

Jimmy Demaret

#38. After hitting two balls into the water- By God, I've got a good mind to jump in and make it four.

Simon Hobday

#39. Then I thought, with the same clubhead speed, the ball's going to go at least six times as far. There's absolutely no drag, so if you do happen to spin it, it won't slice or hook 'cause there's no atmosphere to make it turn.

Alan Shepard

#40. You can, legally, possibly hit and kill a fellow golfer with a ball, and there will not be a lot of trouble because the other golfers will refuse to stop and be witnesses because they will want to keep playing.

Dave Barry

#41. What's the point of washing off your ball when teeing off on a water hole?

Bruce Lansky

#42. My old friend Jack Benny has only had one ball all his golfing life. And now he's lost it. The string came off!

Bob Hope

#43. But you don't have to go up in the stands and play your foul balls. I do.

Sam Snead

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

Arnold Palmer

#45. I'm a great believer that if you don't get the ball to the hole, it won't go in.

Colin Montgomerie

#46. Some golfers blast their ball from traps, With one adroit explosion, But others, out in ten perhaps, Depend upon erosion.

Richard Armour

#47. If he slices the budget like he slices a golf ball, the nation has nothing to worry about.

Bob Hope

#48. Through the ball we are all the same. We just have different ways of getting it there.

Charles Coody

#49. Titleist has offered me a big contract not to play its balls.

Bob Hope

#50. Golf. Trying to knock a tiny ball into an even smaller hole with implements ill suited to the purpose.

Winston Churchill

#51. A woman in Great Britain has died after being hit in the back of the head by a golf ball, on the first hole. Her husband was so distraught, he only played the front nine.

Jay Leno

#52. Everyone wants to be known as a great striker of the ball for some reason. Nobody wants to be called a lucky, one-putting s.o.b.

Gary Player

#53. The hardest shot in golf is a mashie at 90 yards from the green, where the ball has to be played against an oak tree, bounces back into a sandtrap, hits a stone, bounces on the green and then rolls into the cup. That shot is so difficult I have made it only once.

Zeppo Marx

#54. Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But such is certainly not the case.

Bobby Jones

#55. Follow through: The part of the swing that takes place after the ball has been hit, but before the club has been thrown.

Henry Beard

#56. I had very low expectations. Honestly, I think I had 11 rounds of golf the entire year in before this tournament, and I had hit balls maybe four or five times.

Trent Dilfer

#57. It is technology. They all changed to a harder golf ball, so they gave up spinning on the greens. They all changed to longer drivers, bigger heads with hotter faces and lighter shafts. The problem is, the harder you hit it, the more control you lose.

Tiger Woods

#58. Talking to a golf ball won't do you any good, unless you do it while your opponent is teeing off.

Bruce Lansky

#59. When your shot has to carry over a water hazard, you can either hit one more club or two more balls.

Henry Beard

#60. Out here, it's just you and the ball.

Mike Weir

#61. Every golfer should come to the first tee with fourteen clubs, a dozen balls, a handful of tees, and at least one great golf story

Lee Trevino

#62. Got more dirt than ball. Here we go again.

Alan Shepard

#63. When Tiger was 6 months old, he would sit in our garage, watching me hit balls into a net. He had been assimilating his golf swing. When he got out of the high chair, he had a golf swing.

Earl Woods

#64. Duffers who consistently shank their balls are urged to buy and study Shanks - No Thanks by R.K. Hoffman, or in extreme cases, M.S. Howard's excellent Tennis for Beginners.

Henry Beard

#65. Of this diversion the Scots are so fond, that, when the weather will permit, you may see a multitude of all ranks, from the senator of justice to the lowest tradesman, mingled together, in their shirts, and following the balls with utmost eagerness.

Tobias Smollett

#66. You get no points for style when it comes to putting. It's getting the ball to drop into the cup that counts.

Laurie Auchterlonie

#67. I've lost balls in every hazard and on every course I've tried. But when I lose a ball in the ball washer, it's time to take stock.

Milt Gross

#68. Hole in One: an occurence in which a ball is hit directly from the tee into the hole in a single shot by a golfer playing alone.

Henry Beard

#69. There is no truth in the idea that the person who hits the most balls will become the best golfer. Golf is a bizarre sport. You can work for years on your game, without making any improvement in your score.

Fred Couples

#70. I never kick my ball in the rough or improve my lie in a sand trap. For that I have a caddie.

Bob Hope

#71. The best part about golf is when you hit the ball long. It feels really good.

Michelle Wie

#72. If I can hit a curveball, why can't I hit a ball that is standing still on a course?

Larry Nelson

#73. I could have rolled the ball up there against Musial, and he would have pulled out a golf club and hit it out.

Don Newcombe

#74. I always like to see a person stand up to a golf ball as though he were perfectly at home in its presence.

Bobby Jones

#75. A golf ball is like a clock. Always hit it at 6 o'clock and make it go toward 12 o'clock. But make sure you're in the same time zone.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

#76. In golf, a player can step and mar the line of his adversary's putt. A player can also hit his adversary or his caddie intentionally with his ball and claim the hole - but it isn't usually done.

Charles Brown MacDonald

#77. One thing I've learned over time is, if you hit a golf ball into water, it won't float.

Arnold Palmer

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

Tim Allen