Greatest golf Quotes

The woods are full of long drivers.

— Harvey Penick

Never concede the putt that beats you.

— Harry Vardon

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

— Patty Berg

I didn't miss the putt. I made the putt. The ball missed the hole.

— Peter Jacobsen

Sex is the most fun you can have without smiling.

— Madonna Ciccone

Golf's three ugliest words: still your shot.

— Dave Marr

You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.

— Bobby Jones

Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.

— Ben Hogan

Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic.

— Earl Wilson

The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top.

— Pete Dye

My favorite shots are the practice swing and the conceded putt. The rest can never be mastered.

— George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

— Ben Crenshaw

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

— Jack Nicklaus

On a recent survey, 80 percent of golfers admitted cheating. The other 20 percent lied.

— Bruce Lansky

They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. It's more complicated than that.

— Gardner Dickinson

When you lip out several putts in a row, you should never think that means that you're putting well. When you're putting…

— Jack Nicklaus

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

— Bobby Jones

The game has such a hold on golfers because they compete not only against an opponent, but also against the course, against…

— Arnold Palmer

My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch.

— Lee Trevino

The most important shot in golf is the next one.

— Ben Hogan

I'm the best. I just haven't played yet.

— Muhammad Ali

I never learned anything from a match that I won.

— Bobby Jones

Golf is the most fun you can have with out taking your clothes off.

— Chi Chi Rodriguez

I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.

— Ben Hogan

If you really want to get better at golf, go back and take it up at a much earlier age.

— Tom Mulligan

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

— Heywood Hale Broun

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

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

— Lee Trevino

Talking to a golf ball won't do you any good, unless you do it while your opponent is teeing off.

— Bruce Lansky

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

— Paul Harvey

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

— Lee Trevino

Watching Phil Mickelson play golf is like watching a drunk chasing a balloon near the edge of a cliff.

— David Feherty

A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill.

— Ben Hogan

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

— John Updike

Someone once told me that there is more to life than golf. I think it was my ex-wife.

— Bruce Lansky