Golfing Quotes · Page 3

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

— John Updike

Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses...

— Adlai Stevenson I

Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.

— Winston Churchill

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

— Chi Chi Rodriguez

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

— Grantland Rice

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

— Ken Venturi

I never learned anything from a match that I won.

— Bobby Jones

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

— Lee Trevino

The trouble that most of us find with the modern matched sets of clubs is that they don't really seem to know…

— Robert Browning

No game designed to be played with the aid of personal servants by right-handed men who can't even bring along their dogs…

— Bruce McCall

Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money…

— Rick Reilly

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

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

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

— Ben Crenshaw

A lot of people in the media say that Donald Trump goes golfing too much, which raises a very important question: Why…

— Hasan Minhaj

I'm kind of like a guy who's missing a little bit of the guy gene. Like, I love steak, but the notion…

— Jim Gaffigan

On golfer Rory McIlroy's collapse in the final round of the 2011 Masters: We had hoped to compare the young Northern Irishman…

— Matt Dickinson

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

— Rory McIlroy

I think daycare is great for people who have to work two jobs. My problem is with people who are dropping kids…

— Denis Leary

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

— Jessica Simpson

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

— Chi Chi Rodriguez

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

— Sam Snead

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

— Paul Harvey

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

— Buddy Hackett

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

— Heywood Hale Broun

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

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

— Bobby Jones

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

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

— George Archer

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

— Shane Lowry

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

— Mac O'Grady

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

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

Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.

— Samuel Johnson

John certainly gives it a good hit, doesn't he? My Sunday best is a Wednesday afternoon compared to him.

— Nick Faldo

Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry…

— Michael Bamberger