Golf Quotes

I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.

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

Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club.

See, as much as I love the game, golf was my vehicle to competition. And I love to compete.

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

Did you know there's probably more golf played in Iceland than most places in the world? They play 24 hours a day in the summertime and the northern part is warmer than the southern part.

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

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

Golf is a better game played downhill.

Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.

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

I'll watch golf while I work out. I'm your average golf fan.

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

I think I've heard somebody say that I was a well-dressed golfer. I guess that has something to do with the fact that a lot of people who play golf don't dress very well.

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.

Every day I play golf, that's my goal. To break 70 the other way. To shoot 70 or better.

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.

I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor.

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.

I don't have a life, I really don't. I'm as close to a nun as you can be without the little hat. I'm a golf nun.

The best thing about golf is ultimately what it teaches you about yourself. And the worst thing is how freakin' nervous it can make you feel.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

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

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 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!

I like to play snooker, golf as well.

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

Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.

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.

Lots of people still don't think of golf as a sport.

One thing that golf teaches you is humility.

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

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

On the average, I don't spend more than 15 minutes in the car - to go to the golf course or the gym. And that's the only time I listen to the radio.

They talk about Amen Corner but there's so much more to it than what meets the eye on this golf course.

My parents didn't play golf.

What makes a great golf course is continuity and variety: right-to-left holes, left-to-right holes.

You could argue that if the average golfer plays a golf course with 430-yard par 4s and they always miss the green, that's good practice. It's definitely great practice to play a course that's too long for you.

The world is full of people who would like nothing better than to spend six hours on a golf course. I would rather be chopping shallots.

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

Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.

I always say golf's a really good exposer of a player's personality.

I certainly don't think adrenalin coursing through your veins, is going to help with the fine motor skills of golf.

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

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

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

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

Jimmy Fallon and I play regularly at the Bayonne Golf Club in Jersey. He's eighteen holes of fun. Any time we play he has moments of brilliance, but also moments of utter catastrophe.

I bought my first electric car in 1970. Its top speed was 15 mph and it had just a 15 mile range - it was essentially a golf cart with a windshield wiper and a horn.

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

Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?

Retire to what? I already play golf and fish for a living.

I know this golf tournament has my name on it but it's not about me. It's about the Louisiana Tech family. There is nothing greater than being a part of the Bulldog family.

I don't like to watch golf on television because I can't stand people who whisper.

I never play golf because it takes too long, and the business connections it produces can be made just as easily over an early breakfast.

In my life, I'd like to play more golf and, and get a decent handicap.

I get in my golf cart with my dogs, I have five dogs.

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

If you've driven over to the gay section of Los Angeles, it's like a golf course... Real estate values go 'boom!'

I know bugger all about golf.

I like golf, hiking, camping, boating and fishing.

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

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.

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

I'm not very good in the rain. I don't wear a golf glove.

Really in all my years on Tour, in the U.S. Open I probably played great golf in two of them, out of maybe 20, so it's a lot of work.

I think people like players they can relate to. It seems as if people think they know me. I just think I'm an ordinary Joe who plays golf very, very well.

I've always - I grew up on the old-style traditional type of golf course, tree lined and all small greens, big undulations. And Oakmont just fit my eye.

I've always said, the harder the golf course, the better I play.

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.

My golf is woeful but I will never surrender.

It's really football, tennis, and golf that I watch other than hockey.

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.

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

There are some guys out here that can really play golf, but it has not been their focus for that long.