Top 100 Golfer Quotes

The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I’m convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They’re not that difficult, truly.

I gravitate toward the team thing. I’m not a golfer – I much prefer basketball.

I’m not a good golfer. I don’t have any hobbies, really.

I’m more likely to quote the golfer George Burns than the legendary late comedian by the same name who lived to be 100.

My dad was a scratch golfer growing up. When I’m on the road, I always bring my clubs with me.

Actually, I’m a very good golfer.

You know it’s going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.

I probably do more community service than any other professional golfer.

Some golfers, we are told, enjoy the landscape; but properly, the landscape shrivels and compresses into the grim, surrealistically vivid patch of grass directly under the golfer’s eyes as he morosely walks toward where he thinks his ball might be.

Golf is really tricky. I feel like you either have to be a broadcaster, or a professional golfer or a golf instructor. If you’re not one of those things you don’t really fit in the game.

I was a caddy once and I lost the golfer’s clubs. Plus I don’t know how to golf, so I was the worst caddy ever. Then I was a mortgage brokers assistant, so that was just carrying around a lot of files – pretty meaningless, mind-numbing work.

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

I’m a big video game golfer!

I think I’ve gotten more attention after the Olympics than any other U.S. athlete, and it’s really great that people are recognizing who I am and what I do. You look at Shaq and you see a basketball player. You look at Tiger Woods and you see a golfer. But people are responding to who I am.

When you look at facing retirement in your mid-30s, and all of a sudden the outlet for that passion and work ethic goes away, you can’t just sit back in a rocking chair and be retired at 35. I’m not a good enough golfer to play golf every day.

Golf is a central part of my life and I look forward to working with the great folks at Vineyard Vines to create an authentic golf apparel brand that speaks to the golfer.

The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.

It was so weird that I would end up directing ‘The Greatest Game Ever Played,’ because, y’know, I’m not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth.

The final group, on Sunday at the Masters, is the greatest feeling in the world for a professional golfer.

My problem happens to be near-sightedness – inability to see distance. And this is pretty tough on a golfer.

Golf is the absolute worst place for me to be because I am the exact opposite of everything that a golfer should encompass, should be, and I’m not.

I’ve always said that if I could do anything in the world, I would be a professional golfer.

I’m a horrible golfer.

I didn’t get into this to pick up a new hobby. I don’t want to just be a golfer. I want to be the best.

It’s why Nick Price was my favourite golfer growing up. He managed to win majors, get to world No1 but did so with a nice-guy image. He showed that the two are not mutually exclusive.

I feel like everyone in golf is just playing this part of this perfect golfer when in reality it’s nothing like that.

This is a great thing, to make a living as a professional golfer, isn’t it?

I always wanted to be the best I could be at whatever I did. I didn’t want to be the number one golfer in the world. I just wanted to be as good as I could be. I work hard, I push myself hard, and I probably even expect too much of myself.

I want to try to become the best golfer in the world.

If I hadn’t become a golfer, I doubt I’d be wealthy, because I don’t have the sort of ego that drives a person all day long. I might have wound up driving a tractor.

I have a special feeling for Blue Hills CC, where I won perhaps the most important tournament of my life when I was 14 – the Kansas City Match Play Championship. It gave me a dream of becoming a professional golfer.

Name me one golfer that doesn’t get frustrated.

I’m a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They’re great for you limber-wise, they’re great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.

I’m a golfer – not an athlete.

I’m a horrendous golfer, though I do enjoy it.

Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.

If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.

My goal is to be the No. 1 golfer in the world, and I want to chase Tiger.

I’m patient with crossword puzzles and the most impatient golfer.

When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.

I don’t know whether to call myself a golfer who acts or an actor who plays golf.

No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer’s mind.

Mickey Mantle was a very good golfer, but we weren’t allowed to play golf during the season; only at spring training.

Without the AJGA, it would be very difficult for the college coaches to find us. Every junior golfer around the country knows about the AJGA and knows that’s the way to get to college. And the way to get beyond college.

Had I not become a professional golfer, I think I would have pursued some type of career in aviation.

We didn’t get along, me and Bill Murray. But I’ve got to give it to him: I don’t like him, but he makes me laugh even now. I’m also jealous that he’s a better golfer than I am.

You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.

My dad was a really good golfer, and he just taught me how to play.

Great touch is often written off simply as ‘talent,’ which is crucial, because a good swing can take a golfer only so far. I’ve seen thousands of fantastic swings in my day, but that doesn’t guarantee anything.

I would love to have been a golfer or any individual sportsman.

Golf is just for fun. I have no time to be a pro golfer, not even after F1. I think it’s too late and I’m too old to learn now. Golf is just a hobby and maybe I can improve a little bit more.

As a bald man who happens to play golf, or a golfer who happens to be bald, I’ll never know the pleasures of a golf visor.

And if you’re a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it’s not great, then you’re not going to believe in the golf story, you’re not going to believe in the rest of the film. That’s the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie’s crap.

I never really idolized any one golfer.

The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.

I’m not a real estate developer. I’m a golfer. I’m a sportsman.

I worked at the golf course, and I always had dreams and aspirations of being a professional golfer.

The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart between shots at PGA Tour events. Man, the next thing you know, they’re going to have some guy carry his clubs around for him.

Our problem with President Obama isn’t that he’s a bad person. By all accounts, he too is a good husband, and a good father – and thanks to lots of practice, a pretty good golfer.

I gravitate toward the team thing. I’m not a golfer – I much prefer basketball.

I’m a terrible golfer.

I started juggling a long time ago, but long before that, I was a golfer, and that’s what I was: a golfer. And as a golfer and as a kid, one of the things that really sort of seeped into my pores, that I sort of lived my whole life, is process. And it’s the process of learning things.

I’ve always said for me, I’ve always focused more on winning major championships than chasing No1. I think that’s just a really nice byproduct of your process and improving as a golfer.

I mean I don’t want to feel inferior to any other golfer in the world. You know if you do that, then you know you’re giving them an advantage, you know, right off the – you know, right from the start.

When I was 13, I told my dad I wanted to move to Florida to attend the IMG Academy. I wanted to be a golfer, and that’s hard to do in New England where I could only practice half the year.

I can’t stand golfing, I’m not a golfer. Can’t do five hours of chasing a ball around a field.

I have aspirations to try and compete professionally. Any golfer that competes in tournaments would be lying if they said they didn’t.

I have never needed operations, I have had niggles the same as any other golfer after putting his body through 17 years of travel and a heavy playing schedule. I think I’m actually in pretty good shape considering the amount of hours spent hitting balls and sitting on an aeroplane.