Golf life Quotes · Page 3

I just hope I don't have to explain all the times I've used His name in vain when I get up there.

— Bob Hope

A lot of guys who have have never choked, have never been in the position to do so.

— Tom Watson

This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.

— Ben Hogan

Many shots are spoiled at the last instant by efforts to add a few more yards.

— Bobby Jones

You don't know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two bucks in your pocket.

— Lee Trevino

I would like to deny all allegations by Bob Hope that during my last game of golf, I hit an eagle, a…

— Gerald R. Ford

For this game you need, above all things, to be in a tranquil frame of mind.

— Harry Vardon

Golf is a game you can never get too good at. You can improve, but you can never get to where you…

— Gay Brewer

I get as much fun as the next man from whaling the ball as hard as I can and catching it squarely…

— Bobby Jones

I want to be best golfer in the world. But I feel like golf is not everything in my life, but I…

— Yani Tseng

Forget the last shot. It takes so long to accept that you can't always replicate your swing. The only thing you can…

— Mark McCumber

The main idea in golf as in life, I suppose is to learn to accept what cannot be altered and to keep…

— Bobby Jones

I've heard people say putting is 50 percent technique and 50 percent mental. I really believe it is 50 percent technique and…

— Chi Chi Rodriguez

I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all…

— Jack Nicklaus

Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What…

— George Archer

A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is…

— Bobby Jones

Golf is golf. You hit the ball, you go find it. Then you hit it again.

— Lon Hinkle

You can't call it a sport. You don't run, jump, you don't shoot, you don't pass. All you have to do is…

— Steve Sax

Remember you have to be comfortable. Golf is not a life or death situation. It's just a game and should be treated…

— Chi Chi Rodriguez

Golf isn't like other sports where you can take a player out if he's having a bad day. You have to play…

— Phil Blackmar

Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists.

— Heywood Hale Broun

The better your attitude and the harder you work, the luckier you get.

— Robert G. Allen

Mini-tour life isn't a glamorous, professional golf life. If you're not on the PGA Tour, it is very tough financially.

— Tony Finau

It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.

— Bobby Jones

Why am I using a new putter? Because the last one didn't float too well.

— Craig Stadler

One minute you're bleeding. The next minute you're hemorrhaging. The next minute you're painting the Mona Lisa.

— Mac O'Grady

Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life not to let bad shots ruin a game…

— Amy Alcott

The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.

— John Updike

Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses...

— Adlai Stevenson I

It's so bad I could putt off a tabletop and still leave the ball halfway down the leg.

— J. C. Snead

John certainly gives it a good hit, doesn't he? My Sunday best is a Wednesday afternoon compared to him.

— Nick Faldo

Art said he wanted to get more distance. I told him to hit it and run backward.

— Ken Venturi

Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course.

— Lee Trevino

Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt.

— Fletcher Knebel

Like most professional golfers, I have a tendency to remember my poor shots a shade more vividly than the good ones.

— Ben Hogan

Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious.

— P. G. Wodehouse

Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's.

— Grantland Rice

In golf as in life, it's the follow through that makes the difference.

— Ben Wicks

Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.

— Abba Eban

I'm not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they'd come up sliced.

— Lee Trevino