Golf Quotes · Page 71

Once when I'd been in a lot of bunkers, my caddie told me he was getting blisters from raking so much.

— JoAnne Carner

Every time you build a golf course, it’s not a golf course when you get there. You have to improvise.

— Pete Dye

I teamed up with the PGA of America to help promote a weekend of golf that raises scholarship money for kids who…

— George W. Bush

In baseball I was able to emulate a lot of different things because I did it growing up, but I go about…

— John Smoltz

It is true that my predecessor did not object, as I do, to pictures of one's golf skill in action. But neither,…

— John F. Kennedy

I was asked by a golfer how to lower his scores. I replied start playing 9 holes instead of 18. I worked…

— Brian Weiss

Of the big four, the PGA is the most fair and the least fun. Basically, it's just the US Open set up…

— Thomas Boswell

Tiger Woods has been unlucky with his body. I don't know whether some of it is self-induced or some of it is…

— Jack Nicklaus

Fitness plays such an important role in my life, and an integral part of my golf structure, that I think I might…

— Rory McIlroy

The chief object of every golf architect or greenkeeper worth his salt is to imitate the beauties of nature so closely as…

— Alister MacKenzie

I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing…

— Rafael Nadal

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is not a public democratic organization; it's a private club basically. It's like a private…

— Micky Dolenz

I think dates considered super corny and cheesy - whether it's going bowling or miniature golf or something where you can be…

— Aimee Teegarden

I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes-there was a jauntiness about her movements as if…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

It's a piece of property that, if you're going to have a development out here, you need to have a golf course…

— Tom Kite

“Someone’s coming.” Terry McCaleb looked at his wife and then followed her eyes down to the winding road below. He could see…

— Michael Connelly

One of these days I'm going to write a book on drops. That ought to sell. The shot's become more popular than…

— Jimmy Demaret

I call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers. Thank you. Now watch this drive.

— George W. Bush

I don't go out and get arrested anymore. The most extravagant thing I do these days is play golf. I'm like an…

— Brad Renfro

Pretty early, when I started playing golf, I was compared to Garfield Sobers, who played both cricket and golf.

— Brian Lara

We're going to live longer than our parents' generation, and there comes a point when you ask yourself, 'What am I going…

— Jane Pauley

I definitely haven't shown the world my best golf. I haven't even shown the world great golf, or consistent, great golf.

— Justin Thomas

I learned one thing from jumping motorcycles that was of great value on the golf course, the putting green especially: Whatever you…

— Evel Knievel

We know that golf is an ancient game with great history and tradition, but our golf is only 10 years old so…

— Nursultan Nazarbayev

To flight approach shots lower with the scoring clubs - what I consider my 7-iron through wedges - I stand two or…

— Keegan Bradley

I have always had a drive that pushed me to try for perfection, and golf is a game in which perfection stays…

— Betsy Rawls

The best designs of all are organic, evolving from the subtleties of the ground they inhabit.

— Tom Doak

When your shot has to carry over a water hazard, you can either hit one more club or two more balls.

— Henry Beard

I love to be at Topeka Country Club. It's where I grew up. That's one course I'd play every day.

— Gary Woodland

Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.

— John Updike

How can we grow the game? It's a conversation in every sport, how do you tap into the millennials? Golf is no…

— Jim Nantz

I'm going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money-winners list.

— Lee Trevino

Golf: A game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of youth.

— Samuel Johnson

Prescott Bush was himself a president of the U. S. Golf Association at one time - 1935 - before he became a…

— Dan Jenkins

Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.

— Westbrook Pegler

I used to go to the driving range to practice driving without slicing. Now I go to practice slicing without swearing.

— Bruce Lansky

When Nicklaus plays wells well, he wins. When he plays badly, he finishes second. When he plays terribly, he finishes third.

— Johnny Miller

So much of my life I've dedicated to golf, aspiring to win my first major championship. To be able to do so…

— Justin Thomas

You should welcome getting older in golf. With greater knowledge of your swing, you, too, can keep improving.

— Angel Cabrera

I started playing golf when I was a kid, because across the street from where we lived there was a little nine-hole…

— Lewis Black