Quotes on Golf

Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.

Author: Amy Alcott

Golf seems to be an arduous way to go for a walk. I prefer to take the dog's out.

Author: Princess Anne

If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be a caddy.

Author: George Archer

Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result.

Author: Tommy Armour

It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.

Author: Lance Armstrong

Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet.

Author: Robert Ballard

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

Author: Dave Barry

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

Author: Dave Barry

Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.

Author: Jack Benny

There is nothing in this game of golf that can't be improved upon if you practice.

Author: Patty Berg

Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?

Author: Al Boliska

Trouble is, I don't get to play a lot at the moment because I've just signed a contract where I've got to do 200 shows a year in pubs, so the golf's fallen away a bit.

Author: Eric Bristow

A golf course is nothing but a pool room moved outdoors.

Author: Frank Butler

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

Author: Gilbert Chesterton

I know bugger all about golf.

Author: Charlotte Church

But we do have a golf course near by and I play fairly regularly.

Author: Perry Como

You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say that I'd rather have won the U.S. Open Golf Tournament.

Author: Sean Connery

Golf is the hardest game in the world. There is no way you can ever get it. Just when you think you do, the game jumps up and puts you in your place.

Author: Ben Crenshaw

My golf is woeful but I will never surrender.

Author: Bing Crosby

I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it.

Author: Mac Davis

Hit the ball pretty solid. Haven't played a lot of golf this year, so was really unsure of what it would be like. I've been playing pretty well lately, especially hitting the ball solid.

Author: Trent Dilfer

Stan said he used to keep Hardy late, make him miss his golf game, and really get him mad.

Author: Dick Dyke

They call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken.

Author: Ray Floyd

I guess what was going to come back came back on Monday. Of course now I've played a different golf course. I've played two practice rounds and two tournament rounds all kind of the same and now today I've played a different golf course.

Author: Raymond Floyd

How can you get tired of playing golf?

Author: Raymond Floyd

They call it golf because all the other four letter words were taken.

Author: Raymond Floyd

I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.

Author: Gerald Ford

Pretty it's pretty good for me because I'm over here in the winters. It's really improved my golf game.

Author: Peter Forsberg

If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.

Author: Paul Gallico

All I want to do is do my shows and play golf.

Author: Mickey Gilley

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.

Author: Jean Giraudoux

It was cool for a couple of weeks, but how much bad golf can you play?

Author: John Goodman

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

Author: John Gunther

Golf is a game in which you yell "fore," shoot six, and write down five.

Author: Paul Harvey

Golf is a game in which you yell "Fore!", shoot six, and write down five.

Author: Will Harvey

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

Author: Ernest Hemingway

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.

Author: Ben Hogan

Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?

Author: Ben Hogan

Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots.

Author: Ben Hogan

If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him.

Author: Lou Holtz

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

Author: Rogers Hornsby

Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.

Author: Bobby Jones

The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.

Author: Bobby Jones

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

Author: Roger Kahn

I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting.

Author: Shia LaBeouf

We all know, the ones who play golf, know what a wonderful game it is and what a great past-time it is.

Author: Bernhard Langer

You know, why the game of golf is popular? Very easy, it's a great game.

Author: Bernhard Langer

Now I do bowling, golf, and tennis. I want to be a good bowler.

Author: Andy Lau

Golf is like solitaire. When you cheat, you only cheat yourself.

Author: Tony Lema

I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf.

Author: Jack Lemon

At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.

Author: Tea Leoni

All I've got against golf is it takes you so far from the clubhouse.

Author: Eric Linklater

Playing golf is like learning a foreign language.

Author: Henry Longhurst

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

Author: Robert Lynd

You know the way I play golf, it's a good I do these things for charities.

Author: Joe Mantegna

Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different.

Author: John McCarthy

Golf courses sell real estate and that's why they're built.

Author: Ed McMahon

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.

Author: A. Milne

Nothing dissects a man in public quite like golf.

Author: Brent Musburger

There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks.

Author: Jack Nicklaus

It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.

Author: Jack Nicklaus

I like trying to win. That's what golf is all about.

Author: Jack Nicklaus

A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.

Author: Jack Nicklaus

Golf is a better game played downhill.

Author: Jack Nicklaus

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

Author: Jack Nicklaus

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.

Author: Jack Nicklaus

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

Author: Leslie Nielsen

That's why we have practice rounds. We make the adjustments as we go around, try and find out how to play the golf course the best we can. No big deal, it's nothing to me, it's the same for me as it is to everybody and we're all trying to understand it.

Author: Greg Norman

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.

Author: Greg Norman

I don't see myself playing or adjusting my schedule for senior tournament golf.

Author: Greg Norman

If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.

Author: Shaquille O'Neal

I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.

Author: Arnold Palmer

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.

Author: Arnold Palmer

As we all know... golf is a puzzle without an answer.

Author: Gary Player

I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to hit a golf ball.

Author: Dennis Quaid

Golf has become so manicured, so perfect. The greens, the fairways. I don't like golf carts. I like walking. Some clubs won't let you in unless you have a caddy and a cart.

Author: Robert Redford

Few learn golf in a lifetime.

Author: Grantland Rice

I played golf all over Detroit.

Author: Smokey Robinson

When Lee and Jack win, it is good for golf. When I win, it is better.

Author: Chi Rodriguez

Golf is a thinking man's game. You can have all the shots in the bag, but if you don't know what to do with them, you've got troubles.

Author: Chi Rodriguez

You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later.

Author: Richard Roeper

Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.

Author: Andy Rooney

I move around and play different golf courses. I just enjoy it.

Author: Darrell Royal

In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically.

Author: Pete Sampras

Anybody who plays golf will tell you that you play against yourself.

Author: Martin Sheen

To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

Author: Sam Snead

Golf is played with the arms.

Author: Sam Snead

I play bad golf for good charities like the LA Police.

Author: Robert Stack

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.

Author: Sylvester Stallone

My hobbies and leisure activities include cars and golf.

Author: Michael Strahan

I like to play golf. I like to shoot hoops.

Author: Justin Timberlake

I adore the game of golf. I won't ever retire.

Author: Lee Trevino

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

Author: Lee Trevino

I've played golf with three U.S presidents.

Author: Lee Trevino

I'm actually a very quiet person off the golf course. I talk 150 miles per hour when I'm at the course, but when in private I very seldom ever open my mouth.

Author: Lee Trevino

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Author: Mark Twain

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

Author: Mark Twain

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

Author: John Updike

A great deal of unnecessarily bad golf is played in this world.

Author: Harry Vardon

One thing that golf teaches you is humility.

Author: Robert Wagner

It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.

Author: Karrie Webb

I think I was given a gift to play golf and to be mentally strong.

Author: Karrie Webb

This golf course, you miss a shot a little bit off-line, it's going to bite you.

Author: Mike Weir

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

Author: H. Wells

Golf, like measles, should be caught young.

Author: P. Wodehouse

I'm addicted. I'm addicted to golf.

Author: Tiger Woods

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

Author: Jennifer Wyatt

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

Author: Henny Youngman