Golfing Quotes · Page 4

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

— Ken Venturi

I'm in the woods so much I can tell you which plants are edible.

— Lee Trevino

I never learned anything from a match that I won.

— Bobby Jones

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

— Grantland Rice

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

— Lee Trevino

But you don't have to go up in the stands and play your foul balls. I do.

— Sam Snead

The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil.

— Chi Chi Rodriguez

There are two things you can do with your head down - play golf and pray.

— Lee Trevino

Putting allows the touchy golfer two to four opportunities to blow a gasket in the short space of two to forty feet.

— Tommy Bolt

I'd like to see the fairways more narrow. Then everybody would have to play from the rough, not just me.

— Seve Ballesteros

A golf ball is like a clock. Always hit it at 6 o'clock and make it go toward 12 o'clock. But make…

— Chi Chi Rodriguez

It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it.

— Jack Nicklaus

Graduation is a big deal-bigger than getting a hole-in-one while golfing. People might think you're lying about the hole-in-one, but when you…

— Anderson Cooper

Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks…

— Bobby Jones

Relaxing, going on vacation, sleeping, having fun when I want, golfing when I want, do whatever I want - I am going…

— Landon Donovan

Off the court, most of my time is on the golf course. I spend my time golfing, mostly relaxing at home and…

— Mike Conley Jr

I am a proud product of Irish golf and the Golfing Union of Ireland and am hugely honoured to have come from…

— Rory McIlroy

What if I accidentally hit somebody? Because my dad took one of his friends golfing, and it was, like, one of his…

— Jessica Simpson

Golf is a game in which you yell "for," shoot six, and write down five.

— Paul Harvey

I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance my left ear is from my right.

— Ben Crenshaw

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

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

Once when I was golfing in Georgia, I hooked the ball into the swamp. I went in after it and found an…

— Buddy Hackett

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

Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.

— Grantland Rice

There are outfits in the golfing world that are acceptable, but when you walk off the course can make you look like…

— Justin Rose

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

I'm not very good, but going out there and especially golfing with the teammates and kind of creating that bond, I think…

— Justin Herbert

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

— Heywood Hale Broun

As far as swing and techniques are concerned, I don't know diddly squat. When I'm playing well, I don't even take aim.

— Fred Couples

I can't stand golfing, I'm not a golfer. Can't do five hours of chasing a ball around a field.

— Rob Ford

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

— Bobby Jones

If you look back at golfing history, there are many cases of players who had to learn the hard way. People have…

— Shane Lowry

“Yesterday I played a round of golf. I just kept hitting the ball in circles, but never getting it in the circles…

— Jarod Kintz

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

— Mac O'Grady

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

— George Archer

The earliest golfing memories that I have are of the Italian Open when I was about six years of age. Watching that…

— Matteo Manassero

I won the Open in Portrush, and that's probably going to be the greatest moment of my golfing career, but it doesn't…

— Shane Lowry

Every time a fellow golfer gives me a piece of advice I have thought about it. A different thing is that this…

— Seve Ballesteros

I had a wonderful experience on the golf course today. I had a hole in nothing. Missed the ball and sank the…

— Don Adams