Best 1733 quotes in «golf quotes» category

I may know I am better than an 18, but the computer absorbs my scores year after year and continues to tell me that is what I am. Therein lies the tragedy of golf. We know what we should be, but there is always some number telling us what it is.

I'm certainly not a saint out there on the golf course. In fact, far from it. Like when you make a three-putt and become upset. I take one step back and remember there are more important things going on in the world than golf.

I'm dancing tango, and I'm playing golf, and I'm quite active, you know, and for my age and everything, and what I've gone through, I'm very happy.

I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations - that's why we got married really quickly.

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

I'm getting more and more comfortable out on the golf course with the changes I've been making. It's really just a confidence thing in that I love being in contention.

I'm glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.

I’m going to pass a law that no one can ask me my golf score.

I'm gonna be the best dad that ever lived. I'll have a ranch with a race car track and a golf course.

I'm going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money-winners list.

I'm hitting the driver so good I gotta dial the operator for long distance after I hit it.

I'm happy with the success I've had, and I feel like there's been a lot that I've learned this year, and that's a great thing going into the future.

I'm in love with golf, and I want everybody else to share my love affair.

I'm in semi-retirement, but what am I going to retire to? I don't ride horses, I don't golf anymore. I shoot a game of pool every now and then.

I'm in the woods so much I can tell you which plants are edible.

I'm just more into playing golf. It's a great thing.

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

I'm not a golf player. I think golf and fishing are the same, but at the end of the day, you can't fry up and golf ball and dip it in tartar sauce. So I'm a fisherman.

I'm not a big shorts person. Personally, I hate to see men's legs on the golf course.

I'm not being used to create the trickle down effect in racquetball, unlike Tiger Woods being used to create such effect in golf. If you go to the IRT website, you don't know that I'm champion. I mean you'll see my image but you'll not know what I've done in the sport. Although, me being Canadian makes it difficult for them to embrace me as champion. I don't know, it feels like we take 10 steps forward and 8 back in racquetball.

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

I'm not going to lie, I love TV. I watch a ton of it - golf, HGTV, football.

I'm not much interested in sport just as sport. I wouldn't be interested in making a golf film or baseball or fishing film.

I'm not much of a golfer, I don't have any friends and all I like to do is go home and be alone, and not worry about ways not to lose.

I move around and play different golf courses. I just enjoy it.

I'm now unemployed. It's a weird feeling with no work, but at least there's still golf. Standup comedy is like my core, it's what I do. But I want to be a pro golfer. It's a love/hate relationship with golf. I can come away feeling so serene, and yet, it's the thing that I can let get to me to throw a club and say curses that don't even exist. I'm obsessed with something that won't let me master it. I don't know. I need therapy.

I'm not very good at practice. But if you tell yourself you love the hole and love hitting it on the fairway, it's a big difference.

I'm playing like Tarzan-and scoring like Jane.

I'm really going to do my homework. I'm going to be down there on the practice tee finding out if a guy's wife beat him up the night before, important stuff like that. Stuff that people want to know.

I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.

I'm still no good at ball-and-stick games. If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke.

I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.

I'm very surprised - midway through my second glass of red wine last night, I really didn't think I'd be standing here with a trophy in my hands.

I'm swimming every day and I'm even trying to get the golf swing working again - but that might take a little bit longer.

I'm used to the golf course playing soft, so tomorrow I'm going to have to pay attention a little bit more.

I'm working as hard as I can to get my life and my cash to run out at the same time. If I can just die after lunch Tuesday, everything would be perfect.

In a generation or two, or maybe sooner, young golfers of true sporting instinct will wonder why all this handling of the ball is necessary. It will seem to them that the game is not as good as it might be.

I never got on the course with my dad, but to be playing golf with my kids - that's a dream.

I never had any thought the whole week. I figured my caddie [Jerry Beard] knew the course a lot better than me, so I put out my hand and played whatever club he put in it. I'd say, "How hard do I hit it?" He'd tell me and I'd swing. The guys who come down here once a year and try to get smart with Mr. Jones' course are the dumb ones.

Indeed, the highest pleasure of golf may be that on the fairways and far from all the pressures of commerce and rationality, we can feel immortal for a few hours.

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

I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. It's like a color movie. First I 'see' where I want it to finish, nice and white and sitting up high on the bright green grass. Then the scene quickly changes and I 'see' the ball going there: its path, trajectory, and shape, even its behavior on landing. Then there is this sort of fadeout, and the next scene shows me making the kind of swing that will turn the previous images to reality.

I never knew what top golf was like until I turned professional. Then it was too late.

I never played much golf as a kid. I caddied quite a bit but never got serious into golf until about age 15.

I never rooted against an opponent, but I never rooted for him either.

I never went into a tournament or round of golf thinking I had to beat a certain player. I had to beat the golf course. If I prepared myself for a major, went in focused, and then beat the golf course, the rest took care of itself.

I never worried about money, except that I knew that all I had to worry about was golf. As long as I could play, I was going to make money.

I never pray to God to make a putt. I pray to God to help me react good if I miss a putt.

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

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.