Best 1733 quotes in «golf quotes» category

The hole was playing downwind and I managed to get a good bounce.

The ideal build for a golfer would be strong hands, big forearms, thin neck, big thighs and a flat chest. He'd look like Popeye.

The importance of my legacy is not the golf course, it's what my life is, and what my life is intended to be. The game of golf is a game. My family is my life.

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

The key is to design great golf courses all around the world. But my plan is only to do a select few. I devote so much of my time to these. I'm kind of a hands-on kind of person. I always want to do the best that I can in all of my life and this is no different.

The kids say golf taught them this and that. I get it with the military: A guy joins the military because he needs discipline and has to find himself. But don't tell me, 'Golf helps you find yourself.' I've been playing my whole life, and I'm still looking for myself.

The last time I had this much fun was a root-canal operation.

The last thing you want to do is shoot 80 wearing 'tartan troosers'.

The last time I played golf with President Ford he hit a birdie. And an eagle, a moose, an elk, an aardvark...

The life of the golfer is not all gloom; There's always the lies in the locker room.

The life of a professional golfer is precarious at best. Win, and they carry you to the clubhouse on their shoulders. Lose, and you pay the caddies in the dark.

The main idea in golf as in life, I suppose is to learn to accept what cannot be altered and to keep on doing one's own reasoned and resolute best whether the prospect be bleak or rosy.

The man who runs from his office to the golf club, gulps a sandwich, belches and races to the first tee has no business howling in anguish when he puts his first two shots in the woods, then tops a 3-iron shot into the pond.

The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament.

The meeting with Prince William took place at the White House because Prince William wanted to see where the president spent his days, but the golf course was covered in snow.

The mind messes up more shots than the body.

The media says, "How in the world can you do this? You're here, you're in Great Britain, you're in the UK, and they just had the Brexit vote, and you're talking about your golf course?" Trump says, "Yeah, and you know what? The falling pound is even gonna help my business here.

The mismanagement of American newspapering is quite remarkable. But all of the fellows responsible are now on a golf course in Hilton Head or some such (place), having secured their bonuses and golden-parachute buyouts.

The mental aspect of golf is what makes golf such a great sport.

The more New Yorkers like something, the more disgusted they are. "The kitchen was all Sub-Zero: I want to kill myself. The building has a playroom that makes you want to break your own jaw with a golf club. I can't take it.

The moment the average golfer attempts to play from long grass or a bunker or from a difficult lie of any kind, he becomes a digger instead of a swinger.

The more I practice, the luckier I get.

The more they made noise, the more calm I became.

The most important shot in golf is the next one.

The most advanced medical brains in the universe have yet to discover a way for a man to relax himself, and looking at a golf ball is not the cure.

The more you play it the less you know about it.

The next time I cry about golf it will only be with joy. It's not worth crying over golf for any other reason. After all, it's only a game.

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

The muttered hint, "Remember, you have a stroke here," freezes my joints like a blast from Siberia.

Then Lee Trevino and Jack Nicklaus come in. I'll caddie for Jack.

The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.

The number eighteen is symbolically meaningful because it is the numerical equivalent of the Hebrew word chai, which means life.

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

The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me.

The older I get, the better I was.

The one place where I can relax is on the golf course with my teammates and buddies, assuming I'm hitting the golf ball well. If I'm not, well, that is another story.

The older I get, the better I used to be.

The one stroke marks the difference between fame and oblivion.

The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.

The only really unplayable lie I can think of is when you're supposed to be playing golf and come home with lipstick on your collar.

The only thing I fear on a golf course is lightning...and Ben Hogan.

The other sad truth about golf spectatorship is that for today's pros it all comes down to the putting, and that the difference between a putt that drops and one that rims the cup, though teleologically enormous, is intellectually negligeable.

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

The only thing you should force in a golf swing is the club back in the bag.

The only times you touch the ball with your hand are when you tee it up and when you pick it out of the cup. The hell with television towers and cables and burrowing animals and the thousand and one things that are referred to as 'not part of the golf course'. If you hit the ball off the fairway, you play it from there.

The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons. ... Republicans: The No. 1 reason the rest of the world thinks we're deaf, dumb, and dangerous.

The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself.

The point is that it doesn't matter if you look like a beast before or after the hit, as long as you look like a beauty at the moment of impact.

The people who know me, the people who see the passion I have for this game and the respect for it, they know that I don't cut any corners in the way I approach golf.

The person I fear most in the last two rounds is myself.