Golf Quotes · Page 83

Here were decent godless people; Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.

— T. S. Eliot

I love being on the water, wakesurfing and wakeboarding. I'm not thinking about golf. I'm just wondering if my cooler's got enough…

— Dustin Johnson

“They say golf is like life, but don’t believe them. Golf is more complicated than that.”

— Gardner Dickinson

No matter how poorly you play, there is always someone you can beat. No matter how well you play, there is always…

— Harvey Penick

It is very boring if just fairway, fairway, fairway. It doesn't matter where you hit the drive if you make the putt.

— Seve Ballesteros

You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who…

— Tom Robbins

I feel like everyone in golf is just playing this part of this perfect golfer when in reality it's nothing like that.

— Paige Spiranac

I just go out there and play the game; I get on with things. Golf is not everything in life.

— Louis Oosthuizen

Staying in the present is the key to any golfer's game: once you start thinking about a shot you just messed up…

— Paul Azinger

There are golfers everywhere who may never get a chance to play a links course in Scotland, a tree-lined course in America…

— Tiger Woods

I went and took golf lessons so Dad would let me play with him. I was just terrible... but I was able…

— David Hyde Pierce

My biggest hobby is playing golf, which I really enjoy. Now when I am lying in bed at night, unable to sleep,…

— Vinny Testaverde

When I have a match to play, I begin to relax as soon as I wake up. Everything I do, I do…

— Walter Hagen

Rule One: Whenever a spectator seeks out a really good vantage point and settles down on shooting stick or canvas chair, the…

— Peter Dobereiner

I had played in a tournament with the captain of the University of Minnesota's golf team, and he thought I was good.…

— Tom Lehman

I always think before an important shot: What is the worst that can happen on this shot? I can whiff it, shank…

— Cary Middlecoff

President Clinton and President Obama played a round of golf over the weekend. President Clinton asked Obama what his handicap was, and…

— Jay Leno

I wouldn't dream of watching motor racing, cycling, or golf - which aren't truly sports anyway.

— Howard Jacobson

If he takes the option of dropping behind the point where the ball rests, keeping in line with the pin, his nearest…

— Jimmy Demaret

To desire to change ones past means there is a desire to change oneself. To desire to change oneself, one must learn…

— Lorii Myers

A golf ball can stop in the fairway, rough, woods, bunker or lake. With five equally likely options, very few balls choose…

— Jim Bishop

Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different.

— John McCarthy

In fantasy land, I wish I could be a pro golfer. I love golf - the most frustratingly brilliant game on the…

— Mark Hadlow

I don't look so much for tips. But when they interview a Nicklaus or a Palmer, I'm all ears. I listen to…

— Pete Sampras

Locker rooms and grill rooms are still the best places to find out things you don't know - at the Masters or…

— Dan Jenkins

Vice President Spiro Agnew can not cheat on his score : because all you have to do is look back down the…

— Bob Hope

“The difference between a good golf shot and a bad one is the same as the difference between a beautiful and a…

— Ian Fleming

I was detained a couple of times but that was for not handing in homework because I was playing golf or not…

— Rory McIlroy

I have no interest in owning a football club; I don't play golf; I don't like horseracing and I'd rather become a…

— Lloyd Dorfman

I have a psychological feeling about things - and if I have something that I need to accomplish and I accomplish it,…

— Arnold Palmer

They say 'practice makes perfect.' Of course, it doesn't. For the vast majority of golfers it merely consolidates imperfection.

— Henry Longhurst

Golf is said to be an humbling game, but it is surprising how many people are either not aware of their weaknesses…

— Bobby Jones

It's just golf. As long as I get done without breakin' somethin' or hurtin' somebody, that's my goal.

— Boo Weekley

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

— Barry Lane

Golf is a matter of confidence. If you think you cannot do it, there is no chance you will.

— Henry Cotton

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

— Harlan Coben

It's [Augusta National] a difficult course and it doesn't make it easier when you have three shanks.

— Ian Poulter

Someone who's honest about their golf game, I think, is a person who's right in the world.

— Rich Eisen

I never pray on a golf course. Actually, the Lord answers my prayers everywhere except on the course.

— Billy Graham

I was in the middle of the golf tournament trying to make birdies and I was just having a blast. So that…

— David Duval