You just don't have the time to worry about what others are doing. You just want to take care of your own business. You are focused on that tee shot on the 10th tee and making it to the finish line. It's one of the most stressful moments in professional golf, but you have worked so hard to get to that point, that it really is fun.
~ Mike Weir
I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.
~ Tiger Woods
I've stated my position, and that is that we do not need a contraption to play the game of golf. I would hope that we'd play under one set of rules, and those rules would include a ban on the long putter hooked to the body in some way, shape or form.
~ Arnold Palmer
I don't believe in luck. Not in golf, anyway. There are good bounces and bad bounces, sure, but the ball is round and so is the hole. If you find yourself in a position where you hope for luck to pull you through, you're in serious trouble.
~ Jack Nicklaus
Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor.
~ Martin Sheen
If golf wasn't enjoyable and there wasn't a lot of humor and enjoyment, even though the game is so frustrating, you would wonder why you put yourself through it.
~ Ray Romano
Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
~ Nancy Gibbs
I don't want to be just known for the way I dress. I want to be known for how I play, how I treat people, and how I am as a role model. I don't just want to be, 'He dresses cool' or 'He dresses crazy.' You're going to have lovers and haters. I want my golf game to be the main thing.
~ Rickie Fowler
It's cool now to play golf.
To find a man's true character, play golf with him.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
~ Mark Twain
Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.
~ Ben Hogan
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
~ Bob Hope
Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Golf is a game in which you yell 'fore,' shoot six, and write down five.
~ Paul Harvey
I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
~ Rogers Hornsby
I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
~ Will Rogers
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?
The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.
~ Billy Graham
I'm a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They're great for you limber-wise, they're great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.
~ Matthew Mcconaughey
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
~ William Wordsworth
I have never cared especially for outdoor sports and have no desire to excel at tennis, swimming, or golf. I'll leave those things to the men.
~ Marilyn Monroe
If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
~ Jack Lemmon
If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
~ Sam Snead
The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
~ H. G. Wells
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
~ Woodrow Wilson
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
~ John Updike
I won't have any competitive instincts in any sports, other than golf. I can't see being competitive in sports any more.
~ Michael Jordan
I wouldn't dream of watching motor racing, cycling, or golf - which aren't truly sports anyway.
~ Howard Jacobson
When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him.
~ Shia Labeouf
I did play other sports growing up. I played cricket and all those other things, but I was just so much more talented in golf, and that's all I wanted to do.
~ Jason Day
The key to any good sports story is identifying the defining moment. In football games or a boxing match, it's usually pretty obvious. But in golf, sometimes it happens on Thursday. Usually it's Sunday, but guys who don't know the game, they can miss it.
~ Dan Jenkins
There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.
He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.
~ Shaquille O'neal
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
~ Jim Bishop
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
~ Robert Wilson Lynd
Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.
~ Roger Kahn
