Best 1733 quotes in «golf quotes» category

It is today an accepted principle of golfing architecture that the tiger should be teased and trapped and tested, while the rabbit should be left to peace, since he can make his own hell for himself.

It is true that my predecessor did not object, as I do, to pictures of one's golf skill in action. But neither, on the other hand, did he ever bean a Secret Serviceman.

I told my caddie today that I am in the position that I want to be in. That this is what I have been waiting for, to win my tenth victory. I said that I am going to do everything that I can do today and that nothing is going to stop me.

I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made - my swing is pretty hot.

It provides a different type of element and mental strain athletes love. That's what makes the game of golf so special.

I treat golf as a sport. I let other people treat it like a hobby.

It rose slowly like a gull sensing a reckless blue fish to close to the surface, and then it dived relentlessly for the green, kicked and stopped three feet short of the flag.

I tried real hard to play golf, and I was so bad at it they would have to check me for ticks at the end of the round because I'd spent about half the day in the woods.

I try not to get too emotional, whether it's going really well or going really bad, i always try to stay even keel -- which is great for golf, but it isn't always great for life.

I try and stay out of the sun for the most part. I wear a hat. I play golf. And I wear a hat. But I've had no problem - no major problem - but certainly no problem with skin.

I try to build courses for the most enjoyment by the greatest number.

I try to deign golf courses that are individual in character and individual in their own standing.

I try to exercise in nature, and I try to play golf once a month. The last time I played golf with my wife, however, she got better scores than me, which became an additional source of stress.

I try to keep my mind active. I'm a solitaire and puzzle addict. I exercise religiously. I don't do many things religiously and I've taken up golf to have something to do when I have nothing to do.

I try to simulate the most difficult conditions the players will encounter during competition.

It's about hitting the ball in the center of the club face and hitting it hard.

It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.

It's a great feeling to know that I've played the best golf throughout the season of any of the guys for the second time in three years, it's really nice.

It's an individual sport (golf), so it's the exact opposite of baseball. If you hit a bad shot, you can't say, 'Well, this happened.' It's just you. It's your shot. You can't point the finger at anybody but yourself.

It's a piece of property that, if you're going to have a development out here, you need to have a golf course because you need to take care of the effluent water being created by the development.

It's a really weird mindset to kind of try to take my mentality on the basketball court and bring it here on to the golf course. I don't want to have too high of expectations on, like, each hole, just try to enjoy the process, but hopefully get out to a good start tomorrow and be in the conversation and see what happens.

It's a torture chamber, if we had to play it every day I don't think I'd be playing golf.

It's [Augusta National] a difficult course and it doesn't make it easier when you have three shanks.

It's certainly something we haven't seen before in terms of a fully commercial global brand - really a family of brands - not just Trump but also Ivanka, who has a sub-brand. We've never seen this before. We've had presidents in financial conflicts of interest before, but this phenomenon where a sitting president image avatar is out there selling golf courses and condominiums, even as he is in office and having the value of his personal brand inflated dramatically by fact of his being president, is new territory.

It's easy at times to win golf tournaments and shoot 59, and sometimes it's hard to post an 85.

It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of people ever really get the word about life, about living abundantly and successfully. Success in the important departments of life seldom comes naturally, no more naturally than success at anything - a musical instrument, sports, fly-fishing , tennis, golf, business, marriage, parenthood. But for some reason most people wait passively for success to come to them ..., living as other people are living in the unspoken, tacit assumption that other people know how to live successfully.

It seems a little bit like the home of the U.S. Open in the States. For all the venues of the U.S. Open this is more synonymous for the U.S. Open than any other one.

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.

It's just to let the other one know it can be replaced.

It should almost be a prerequisite to play Castle Stuart before you're allowed to design golf courses nowadays.

It's hard to tell who's going to win this week, but it probably won't be a big, fat guy.

It's like living at an airshow, unless you have something against airplanes, golf, guns, motorcycles, nice cars or drinking.

It's much easier to have one swing thought than many.

It's odd that the word 'atheist' even exist. I don't play golf, is there a word for non-golf players ?

It's not hard to find Gerry Ford on a golf course - you just follow the wounded.

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

It's nice to worry about playing golf and not all the other stuff.

It's not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose.

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

It's Star Wars golf. This place was designed by Darth Vader.

It’s up to the captain. I certainly feel my golf is worthy of playing in the Ryder Cup. But I’m not sure I’m on the radar screen of Paul McGinley.

It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.

It's the most humbling sport ever. It's like a lousy lover. It's like some guy who's never there when you need him. Every once in a while, he comes and makes you feel like heaven on earth.. And then the moment you say, 'I really need this,' he's gone.

It was a gift, something you can't teach. His hands looked like they were born to have a golf club in them.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

It takes six years to make a golfer: three to learn the game, then another three to unlearn all you have learned in the first three years. You might be a golfer when you arrive at that stage, but more likely you are just starting.

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

It was a great honour to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. I didn't know they had a caddie division.

I used to play golf with a guy who cheated so badly that he once had a hole in one and wrote down zero on the scorecard.

It was right after 9/11 and I decided to walk around the grounds of the Pentagon, because I had never been there. Out of nowhere comes this speeding camouflaged golf cart and this guy starts yelling at me, 'What do you think you're doing!' The guy wrote my name down and began to follow me before I got really scared and took off as fast as I could.