Golf Quotes · Page 59

Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.

— Florence King

I've always been into sport, I watch all sport - I love golf, tennis, football and to me to box and have…

— Carl Froch

Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism.

— Robert Hass

In fishing, golf and gardening, if you don't have a healthy tolerance for your own ineptitude, then it isn't for you.

— William Bernard Ziff Jr

I understand the reasons why golfers who play LIV Golf do it and it's a shame they have to relinquish their status…

— Jon Rahm

Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than nineteen years of dealing with him across the desk.

— Grantland Rice

The game just embarrasses you until you feel inadequate and pathetic. You want to cry like a child.

— Craig Stadler

It was neat to see a plaque on the 18th fairway, and go up there and kind of look at the green…

— Paula Creamer

I've just discovered the secret of golf. You can't play a really hot game unless you're so miserable that you don't worry…

— P. G. Wodehouse

My dad was a big believer of having a golf club that fit me. Always have a golf club that fits you,…

— Tiger Woods

As a kid in Fayetteville, N.C., I played golf all day, every day, a lot of it by myself. I spent hundreds…

— Anonymous

I always find it interesting the way golfers relax. You've got the painters or the readers like Luke Donald, but if I…

— Paul Casey

I could go away five or six weeks in a row and never touch a club. I would just look at them…

— Fred Couples

The bigger point here is that golf is a good metaphor for one's life. The challenge of golf for me is trying…

— Morgan Freeman

“The unsurprising idea that luck often contributes to success has surprising consequences when we apply it to the first two days of…

— Daniel Kahneman

Kapalua is a great, fun event, but you don't get a good feel for where your game's at. You're playing on the…

— Scottie Scheffler

It's incredible, ridiculous really, isn't it? You realise you can make more money on the golf tour in one week than some…

— Rory McIlroy

I was a big fan of Coolio, growing up, and I was excited to meet him. We played golf, which definitely is…

— Catherine Reitman

I try to simulate the most difficult conditions the players will encounter during competition.

— Mike Holder

I love coming in for quick pops. You come in. You score. You leave. You're on the golf course. It's great. You…

— Samuel L. Jackson

I only started concentrating on football as a career when I left school at 18. I played golf for the Scottish and…

— Alan Hansen

Tiger is the best athlete that this level of golf has seen. He's lean, he's strong, his swing is marvelous.

— Buddy Marucci

With Tiger Woods, you know everyone is watching. But I think interest in women's golf is getting better too.

— Yani Tseng

We're on our way to the Persian Gulf. Wait! It's a mistake! I thought they said Persian Golf.

— Bob Hope

My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and…

— Dan Jenkins

I love playing competitive golf because it's really the only thing left that I'm still pretty good at.

— Mardy Fish

High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.

— Dan Jenkins

I didn't get into this to pick up a new hobby. I don't want to just be a golfer. I want to…

— Gabrielle Reece

Golf is good, it means I get some fresh air and exercise, take my mind off work and see some of the…

— Harry Connick, Jr

Moderation is essential in all things, madam, but never in my life have I failed to beat a teetotaller.

— Harry Vardon

I don't know the traffic regulations of every city I get to either, but I manage to drive through without being arrested.

— Lloyd Mangrum

I dreamed one night that I had 17 holes-in-one and one two, and when I woke up I was so goddam mad.

— Ben Hogan

Really in all my years on Tour, in the U.S. Open I probably played great golf in two of them, out of…

— Fred Couples

Every champion golfer comes to Augusta imbued with a towering source of inspiration. It's a solitary journey, but it's one that no…

— Jim Nantz

There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

— Lee Trevino

It's flattering to be compared in any way to Tiger Woods, because he's the best player in the world.

— Ivan Lendl

This thing is for the game of golf, yeah, but trust me, the Europeans don't have that mentality.

— Payne Stewart

I can't believe you're a professional golfer. I think you should be working at the snack bar.

— Bob Barker

Most of the difficult things in golf are mental, not physical. Are subjective, not objective. Are the created phantasms of the mind,…

— Arnold Haultain

I'm not much of a golfer, I don't have any friends and all I like to do is go home and be…

— Bear Bryant