Golfing Quotes · Page 6

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

— Tom Mulligan

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

— Lee Trevino

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

— Bobby Jones

Duffers who consistently shank their balls are urged to buy and study Shanks - No Thanks by R.K. Hoffman, or in extreme…

— Henry Beard

Not all activities are equal in this regard. Those that involve genuine concentration—studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancing—are…

— Norman Doidge

It is more satisfying to be a bad player at golf. The worse you play, the better you remember the occasional good…

— Nubar Gulbenkian

A lot of guys who have have never choked, have never been in the position to do so.

— Tom Watson

When I putt, my emotions collide like tectonic plates. It's left my memory circuits full of scars that won't heal.

— Mac O'Grady

There are no short hitters on the tour anymore - just long and unbelievably long.

— Sam Snead

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

Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.

— Ben Hogan

And yeah, my handicap was down to a 10 when we were at the thick of it. I trained for six or…

— Shia LaBeouf

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

— Tommy Bolt

Golf seems to me an arduous way to go for a walk. I prefer to take the dogs out.

— Anne, Princess Royal

Who watches golf on TV? Who calls eight friends over and gets a keg of beer? Landscapers, I guess. They sit around…

— Jeff Cesario

I don't fear death, but I sure don't like those three-footers for par.

— Chi Chi Rodriguez

You know you're on the Senior Tour when your back goes out more than you do.

— Bob Bruce

Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious.

— P. G. Wodehouse

The harder you work, the luckier you become.

— Carl Karcher

In golf, you keep your head down and follow through. In the vice presidency, you keep your head up and follow through.…

— Dan Quayle

It's so bad I could putt off a tabletop and still leave the ball halfway down the leg.

— J. C. Snead

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

— Earl Wilson

Yeah, after each of my downhill putts.

— Homero Blancas

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

— Bruce Lansky

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

— Henry Beard