Golf Quotes

When you make a mistake, the ocean gives you an instant reminder. You get punished. If golf clubs could shock you every time you hit the ball wrong, we'd probably learn how to play golf pretty well.

Those who the gods seek to destroy first, learn how to play golf.

[Jack Nicklaus] was the first to bring in course management. He could go to a course and tell you within one stroke what was going to win. He used to set his sights on that because he could shoot it. He was the only player I know who, if he decided he wanted to win a tournament, could go out and do it. No one will ever be as popular as Arnold Palmer and no one will ever come close to Jack as a player.

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

It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification.

The real way to enjoy playing golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes.

They say golf came easy to me because I was a good athlete, but there's not any girl on the LPGA Tour who worked near as hard as I did in golf. It's the toughest game I ever tackled.

I always said you have to be really smart or really dumb to play this game well. I just don't know where I fit in.

Never break your putter and your driver in the same round or you're dead.

I want to be best golfer in the world. But I feel like golf is not everything in my life, but I want to keep doing it, keep working hard, do the best I can on the tour and give back to the tour.

Got more dirt than ball. Here we go again.

Tee your ball high...air offers less resistance than dirt.

Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.

A hole in one is amazing when you think of the different universes this white mass of molecules has to pass through on its way to the hole.

A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill.

Concentrate on hitting the green. The cup will come to you.

Such is putting! 2% technique, 98% inspiration or confidence or touch...the only thing great putters have in common is touch and that is the critical ingredient...none of them found it through mechanizing a stroke, nor do I believe they could maintain it that way.

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

Dr. Parent has been a great influence on my mental game. ZEN GOLF is the best book at connecting golf and the mind together. It's for everyone, it really helps, and you're really going to enjoy it.

Having nerves and feeling the pressure just gets you focused and gets your concentration level where it needs to be. I harness that nervous energy into a positive way.

Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course.

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

We were all born with webbed feet and a golf club in our hand.

Golf is the only game that pits the player against an opponent, the weather, the minutest details of a large chunk of local topography and his own nervous system, all at the same time.

Golf isn't a game, it's a choice that one makes with one's life.

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.

Music is my life. The things that people do don't seem interesting to me at all - going out to bars, carrying on, going to parties. What the hell do people do? Shop? Play golf? Have vacations? That doesn't seem interesting to me. To me, my job as a musician is to be a good receptor. A lot of music comes through me.

Arnie has more people watching him park the car than we do out on the course.

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

The only thing in my bag that works is the bug spray.

I'm just a seasonal guy. Basketball, football, baseball, boxing, golf. Give it to me all the time.

I think dates considered super corny and cheesy - whether it's going bowling or miniature golf or something where you can be competitive and just have fun with each other - those always make the most memorable dates!

A rough should have high grass. When you go bowling they don't give you anything for landing in the gutter, do they?

I've got two girls. I like to play golf. Apart from that there's not a lot goes on in my life. So I am boring, aren't I?

Talking about golf is always boring. Playing golf can be interesting, but not the part where you try to hit the little ball; only the part where you drive the cart.

The older I get, the better I was.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

My wife, she still gives me a hard time, and says I hunt too much or I like to play golf too much. And she's probably right, but it sure beats some of the things I used to do.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

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

I can't believe that Babe Ruth was a better player than Willie Mays. (Babe) Ruth is to baseball what Arnold Palmer is to golf. He got the game moving. But I can't believe he could run as well as (Willie) Mays, and I can't believe he was any better an outfielder.

I would say my first golf memory was asking who Arnold Palmer was when he was always on the Pennzoil commercials. When I was a little kid I watched a lot of sports, but I didn't watch a lot of golf, and this guy was always on a tractor.

If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.

I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

The worst advice in golf is, 'Keep your head down.'

The best advice I can give for playing a ball out of water is - don't.

I've been into golf, trying to get into the gym to stay somewhat fit. I've got two boys now, they're active kids.

I feel it's important to be active. People who retire, sit by their swimming pool and golf course and plan to relax have a very empty life.

A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.