Best 1733 quotes in «golf quotes» category

Hey, guess what? Turns out the free market? Not so free. Wall Street was hit hard Monday when Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, Merrill Lynch was sold to Bank of America, and insurance giant AIG neared a collapse of its own. Basically, if your commercials air during golf tournaments, you're done.

Hey, is this room out of bounds?

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

His nerve, his memory, and I can't remember the third thing.

His golf bag does not contain a full set of irons.

Hitting a golf ball and putting have nothing in common. They're two different games. You work all your life to perfect a repeating swing that will get you to the greens, and then you have to try to do something that is totally unrelated. There shouldn't be any cups, just flag sticks. And then the man who hit the most fairways and greens and got closest to the pins would be the tournament winner.

Hit it hard. It will land somewhere.

"Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not unlovingly put to me by the aunt-in-law who had moments before placed a golf club in my virgin grip. I was twenty-five, and had spent my youth in a cloisterd precinct of teh middle class where golf was a rumoured something, like champagne breakfasts and divorce, that the rich did.

How about that amigo? I just come over to see my friends and I win ze bloody championship.

How can you get tired of playing golf?

How did I make a twelve on a par five hole? It's simple - I missed a four foot putt for an eleven.

How do you combat a man with a firearm? You don't combat him with a golf club, baseball bat or a knife. You combat him with another firearm.

How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now.

How much golf I actually play depends on whom you ask. My wife says I'm out there every day. If you ask me, the cricket is getting in the way of the golf.

Hurry up Gene, I got a date tonight.

I admire the way golfers handle themselves. But tennis players are a lot younger, as a rule. There aren't many teenagers on the golf tour.

I also play a little bit of Tiger Woods once in awhile. Get on the golf course there, and pretend that I'm beating him.

I always knew I wanted to play golf and go to college. I try hard to be a positive role model, especially on the golf course. I try to carry myself well, and don't do anything outrageous. I try to play the game like a gentleman and give everyone respect. That's how the game should be played.

I always thought of myself as some sort of athlete until I started playing golf a couple years ago.

I always said that if they have a golf course like this in heaven, I want to be the head pro.

I always said you have to be really smart or really dumb to play this game well. I just don't know where I fit in.

I always think before an important shot: What is the worst that can happen on this shot? I can whiff it, shank it, or hit it out-of-bounds. But even if one of those bad things happens, I've got a little money in the bank, my wife still loves me, and my dog won't bite me when I come home.

I always wanted to be a golfer, only I realised that if I'd played golf I would have been skint.

I always worry when someone's a good golfer. It's like you shouldn't have time to be good at anything. You should just be a politician and you shouldn't have time to practice golf.

I always putted without a glove but I have no idea why - I saw others doing it and copied them.

I always think under par. You have to believe in yourself.

I am against making golf courses obsolete, going to the national Open and playing half the holes with a one-iron.

I am about as relaxed a guy as it gets. I like sitting on my couch, watching shows, sitting by the fire pit. I like to play golf, but I don't have a chance to play it often. Playstation. Xbox, but I'm about as boring a guy as you'll ever meet. I could sit on this couch from the time the day starts to the time the day ends.

I am absolutely delighted to have come second. Who cares about winning when you can be second? I love being runner-up.

I am a guy who likes to do what I am doing with passion, whether it's a soccer match with friends or golf.

I am always working out, whether I am on vacation or at home. When in La Jolla, I like to surf, play tennis, and golf - but surfing is definitely my favorite.

I am a millionaire today and my wife deserves all of the credit. Before I met her I was a multi-millionaire.

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.

I am decidedly unfriendly during a golf game, from the first hole to the last.

I am so pleased with my golf course. I am to say that it's the best I've ever seen it - without equivocation.

I am relying on the theory that playing golf is just like riding a bike and that I haven't forgotten how.

I am very pleased with my synthetic golf green from Southwest Greens. It reacts like a championship golf green, so I can practice my short game whenever I'm at home. I couldn't believe that a synthetic green could be this perfect.

I am tired of all these golfers who are happy with second place. The only one who will like you if you come in second place is your wife and your dog. And that is only if you have a good wife and a good dog.

I am the toughest golfer mentally.

I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.

I am very proud of the fact I do not cheat when I'm playing golf.

I am what I am. I love golf, I love my life, I love my family and friends.

I asked my priest if it was a sin to play golf on Sunday. And he said, "It's a sin for you to play anytime.

I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl like barn swallows, I swing. There is a fruitless commotion of dust and rubber at my feet. "Smothered it," I say promptly. After enough lessons the terminology becomes second nature.

I believe that my creative mind is my greatest weapon.

I believe nicotine plus caffeine equals protein.

I believe in destiny...what's going to be is going to be. If I'm going to win, I'm going to win...I don't give a damn what the other guy shoots. I'm going to win if it's my turn.

I bleed all the time. I play golf and stuff, so there's always something, nicks and stuff, here and there.

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.

I call my putter 'Sweet Charity' because it covers such a multitude of sins from tee to green.