Golfers Quotes

You're never going to be a Yankee for a day, or you're never going to be a Laker, but with Pro-Ams, they allow you to feel like you're a professional golfer and play under their conditions.

I like to think about music as a sport. But only in terms of golf, as far as the course being music and me being the golfer. So it's competitive but only with yourself. With the last one doing well, it made it a challenge to feel like I was improving in some way.

I suppose I get a lot of questions about Tiger. But Tiger Woods is a tremendous talent. He plays well. He has a great work ethic. He's probably as talented of a golfer as anyone who's ever played.

I think, first of all, I'm very proud of Sam Saunders in general. I am happy to see him playing well and his performance has been good. He is coming on as I hoped he would at this stage of his life.He is a fine young man as well as a fine golfer. He is doing things the right way.

I've drawn a lot of inspiration from people who have supported me, golfers who have helped me. If it wasn't for the game of golf I'd probably be mowing the greens back in Latrobe.

Who wants to be reputable? That's for golfers and tycoons with a sleazy past.

The mediocre golfer generally is one who is too lazy to play better.

You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.

"Play it as it lies" is one of the fundamental dictates of golf

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.

It is more satisfying to be a bad player at golf. The worse you play, the better you remember the occasional good shot.

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

His driving is unbelievable. I don't go that far on my holidays.

Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's.

Isn't it fun to go out on the course and lie in the sun?

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

What's nice about our tour is you can't remember your bad shots.

Yeah, after each of my downhill putts.

Trevino is in a league by himself. We don't even count him. We figure when you come in second, you're a winner.

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.

Any game where a man 60 can beat a man 30 ain't no game.

No game designed to be played with the aid of personal servants by right-handed men who can't even bring along their dogs can be entirely good for the soul.

"After all, golf is only a game", said Millicent. Women say these things without thinking. It does not mean that there is any kink in their character. They simply don't realise what they are saying.

Like most professional golfers, I have a tendency to remember my poor shots a shade more vividly than the good ones.

Seve was one of the most talented and exciting golfers to ever play the game. His creativity and inventiveness on the golf course may never be surpassed. His death came much too soon.

A lot of guys who have have never choked, have never been in the position to do so.

I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.

It's so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying "Shhh" and not moving a muscle. Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.

Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt.

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

One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after year with faults we had discovered and corrected time and again.

The idea that a game is anything more than a game... You know, there are people who are basically unbalanced who are going to misuse a game and have bad results. If a golfer who insists on playing during a lightning storm gets hit by a stroke of lightning and is killed nobody says, 'There's golfers dying by the droves being hit by lightning!' You can overdo what you really like, and if you're unbalanced you go overboard.

I do not trust doctors. They are like golfers. Every one has a different answer to your problems.

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.

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.

Golfers are genuinely courteous in a discourteous world. Show me a guest on The Jerry Springer Show who's a golfer.

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

In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.

The older I get, the better I was.

I always wanted to be the best I could be at whatever I did. I didn't want to be the number one golfer in the world. I just wanted to be as good as I could be.

I didn't get into this to pick up a new hobby. I don't want to just be a golfer. I want to be the best.

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

Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What are we supposed to take up when we quit?

They throw their clubs backwards, and that's wrong. You should always throw a club ahead of you so that you don't have to walk any extra distance to get it.

The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting, just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.

The best architects feel it to be their duty to make the path to the hole as free as possible from annoying difficulties for the less skillful golfers, while at the same time presenting to the scratch players a route calling for the best shots at their command.

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

Confidence, of course is an admirable asset to a golfer, but it should be an unspoken confidence. It is perilous to put it into speech. The gods of golf lie in wait to chasten the presumptious.

Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren't penalized for being on grass.