Golf Quotations

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive: the white ball sailing up into the sky, reaching its apex, falling and finally dropping to the turf, just the way I planned it.

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

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

But in the end it's still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you've missed the point.

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.

The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.

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

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.

The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

All you can do is really the prep work and make sure you're ready to hit each golf shot. Outside of that, you're not sure really what's going to happen. It's a funny game, but I think that's why I love it. You never know, one day to the next; you could go shoot 62, and the next day you're going to shoot 78, and you can't predict it.

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

I tell people retirement isn't what you think. You are going to sit around and waste your life, you can only golf so much. To stay young, you have to stay in the mix.

When you look at facing retirement in your mid-30s, and all of a sudden the outlet for that passion and work ethic goes away, you can't just sit back in a rocking chair and be retired at 35. I'm not a good enough golfer to play golf every day.

I do not let a bad score ruin my enjoyment for golf.

Folks have a common misconception that Mississippi is strictly a rural, outdoors state. While we are famous for our hunting, sport fishing and year-round golf, we also have leading manufacturers like Peavey Electronics and Viking Range Corp.

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

Golf is supposed to be fun, but I don't think anything is fun if you're not doing it reasonably well.

I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?

Be brave if you lose and meek if you win.

I mean, I can actually say goodbye to the game of golf, never hit another golf shot the rest of my life and I'd be happy because I can get back in life without any rotation.

Even in high school, I'd tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She wasn't too happy. She'd say, 'Think about this.' And I'd always end up getting back in the pool.

When it blows here, even the seagulls walk.

I lead a very active lifestyle. When I am not working, I enjoy snowboarding in winter. I golf and swim in the summer months. However, trying to find the time to exercise when I am traveling is quite a challenge. I find myself working out at hotel gyms quite regularly - just so that I can keep up with my training.

Golf is the only game I know where you call a foul on yourself.

You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life.

I am a proud product of Irish golf and the Golfing Union of Ireland and am hugely honoured to have come from very rich Irish sporting roots I am also a proud Ulsterman who grew up in Northern Ireland. That is my background and always will be.

Golf is flexibility, and I notice more guys injured. You can overdo this conditioning.

I did 'Formula 51' because I got to run around Liverpool in a kilt, with golf clubs.

The reason they call it 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up.

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.

My golf is woeful, but I will never surrender

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

The game embarrasses you until you feel inadequate.

I'm from Southern California, so I feel much more comfortable with a golf club in my hand than I do a weapon.

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

I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.

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.

My mom started an air-freight company; my grandmother built a golf course. I have a certain degree of entrepreneurial risk-taking in my family history. Maybe that eventually rubbed off on me a little bit.

My best score ever is 103, but I've only been playing 15 years.

It is no secret that the Golf Foundation has had its difficulties.

I experienced American golf courses when I was younger and played a lot of USGA and AJGA tournaments.

You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.

To play well you must feel tranquil and at peace. I have never been troubled by nerves in golf because I felt I had nothing to lose and everything to gain.

Every great player has learned the two Cs: how to concentrate and how to maintain composure.

He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie.

I've been writing a lot, I've a few projects I'm trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing... Apart from that, if I could get lower that a ten handicap on my golf game I'd be thrilled.

When I find a golf course or a restaurant or a market that I like, that's pretty much exclusively where I go.

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.

Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor.

If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.

The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win.

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

No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.

I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.

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.

If you're thinking clearly and are content about where your life is - to where you can just think about the present, think about the now - that's what you need to do to hit good golf shots. I know there are a lot of distractions, but when you're thinking clearly, you're more free. You've got to have that freedom on the golf course.

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.

Nothing dissects a man in public quite like golf.

I enjoy Augusta. I enjoy its challenges. There's no other golf course like this anywhere. Its greens and its challenges on and around the greens are just super, super tough. So the greens are fun to play in sort of a morbid way

I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.

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

There are no accomplished golf tour operators in Indonesia, so a golf holiday there is a do-it-yourself operation. But don't let that deter you.

You go to work, tape five shows in one day and then go home and play golf for the rest of the week and then start the week all over. I thought if something like that came along, I'd love to do that.

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

The great thing about my two lives is I love them both. I'm very ambitious and nothing gets in the way of me practising and concentrating on winning golf tournaments. But then I come home and get back to normality.

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

I will say I love competing, and I was in a great era of playing with young Phil Mickelson and older Greg Norman and Nick Price. I don't know if YA Title could throw the ball these days, but you can play golf for a long, long time.

Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.

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.

I don't feel badly about that. There's a lot of energy on the golf course. The guys are playing great. I like the pairings in the afternoon. I'm going to take what we've got.

I was a hotshot as a junior. When I was 18, I really got into fiddling around. I completely lost interest in golf, and I guess all I could think about was going to college, getting married and having babies.

Golf has probably kept more people sane than psychiatrists have.

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

In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.

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

People always say golfers don't smile. But there is so much psychology in golf so we have to be a bit robotic.

When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a ball game on the television.

Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money.

Tiger is the greatest thing that's happened to the tour in a long time. He has brought incredible attention to golf at a time of year when football and the World Series always take precedence. Everything I've heard about him seems to be true.

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.

Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference.

Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested.

Obama's the one who never worked a day in his life. He never earned a penny that wasn't public money. How many fund-raisers does he attend every week? How often does he play basketball and golf? I wish I had that kind of time.

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

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.

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

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

I just go out there and play the game; I get on with things. Golf is not everything in life.

I started when I was three, and on some courses they wouldn't let me play because they said I was too little. They wouldn't accept that a child could play. So my parents had to argue at times with some people at golf courses so I could.

If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.

You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.

Go out and have fun. Golf is a game for everyone, not just for the talented few.

The game of golf doesn't come rushing back to you. Last week I made a couple of fundamental mistakes that I probably wouldn't have made in the heat of the battle back when I was in my heyday, and those things have got to come back.

Winners are different. They're a different breed of cat.

Everyone gets surprised because neither one of my parents play golf. Like I said in my speech, my aunt and uncle really love golf, and we visited them, and she gave me two clubs. Like people think when they don't know who my dad is, they think he's my coach.

I never mixed with golfers when I was playing, mainly because I didn't want to talk golf all night.

I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.