Top 565 Golf Quotes

I tried real hard to play golf, and I was so bad at it they would have to check me for ticks at the end of the round because I’d spent about half the day in the woods.

Golf is fun – until you hit somebody in the head.

I mean, I think having a great family like I do. You know, I tend to want to give it all I have when I’m at the golf course, and then when I leave I don’t want to think about golf at all. And I just remind myself almost daily that golf’s just my job, it’s not who I am.

I’ve seen the bottom and I know the difference between good golf and bad golf.

Golf is flexibility, and I notice more guys injured. You can overdo this conditioning.

Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.

New Zealand has a great reputation in America for golf.

Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.

I get in my golf cart with my dogs, I have five dogs.

Women’s golf definitely hit a bump in the road. We lost some tournaments due to a combination of things led by the downturn in the economy.

I want to keep playing good golf.

So my game is solid. So that obviously makes me feel confident, that like anybody else in this field, you name them, I feel like I’ve got the ability to win the golf tournament just as much as they have, and that’s the way I’m going to take it.

I watch a lot of golf, but I’m only a fair-weather player.

I’m just more into playing golf. It’s a great thing.

If you call on God to improve the results of a shot while it is still in motion, you are using ‘an outside agency’ and subject to appropriate penalties under the rules of golf.

My dad is a big dreamer, so I got that from him. Golf was my main thing when I was a teenager, and that’s what I wanted to do.

I’m not the most charismatic, maybe emotional, fun-packed individual on the golf course; I get that.

I’m proud to partner with organizations that place an emphasis on and share my interest in giving back to the community. RBC has a rich history of doing this through their sponsorship of golf and the extensive ambassadorial program they have in place.

There is no king of golf. Never has been, never will be. Golf is the most democratic game on Earth… It punishes and exalts us all with splendid equal opportunity.

In tennis you move a lot. Golf you don’t. In tennis, you can have a bad half-hour, but you can’t in golf. You can lose the first set in tennis and still win.

I used to stay up all night, roam around, drink, and carry on like everybody else. That all changed when I got older, started to exercise and play golf. I knew by the time the day was over I would not feel like exercising, so I made it a point to exercise early.

I plan my golf outfits for the tournaments, I recycle some for the practice rounds, but I always have new ideas for my golf attire, and I like to dress nice after the rounds, so I have to bring all my heels. It’s terrible. The worst part about being on tour is living out of a suitcase.

The interesting thing is that everyone in golf is just nice. You learn a lot about people playing golf: their integrity, how they play under pressure.

Um, yeah 15-year-olds don’t lead at an LPGA event all the time. But like I said, I’m very surprised. I’ve been playing really good golf and I’m confident with my game.

I like to play snooker, golf as well.

Golf courses are beautiful, it’s good for the soul and it gets out the anger… well, if you don’t care about the score then you won’t have a heart attack.

Whenever I’m stressed out or having a bad day, the one thing that gets me happy or back into like a good place of mind is being on the golf course. I love being out there, especially really early in the morning getting the first tee time out and just playing by myself. It’s so peaceful.

I never play golf because it takes too long, and the business connections it produces can be made just as easily over an early breakfast.

I spent hours as a kid on the putting green of the local golf course imagining I was sinking a putt to win the Masters.

I like to try to give something back to the community because I feel fortunate for how I was raised and how my life turned out. Each year, with the help of my brother, Grant, we run a charity golf tournament to raise money for the Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy.

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.

Phoenix is an interesting example. Drive around and see the golf courses everywhere, and you see people’s big green lawns. And you live in a desert! I’ve always remarked about the capacity of human beings to look at somewhere and move there because of its uniqueness and its beauty and then change it.

A round of golf is the ideal antidote to stress.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

During the day, I was a doctor. At night, you know, I was a comic. And it was really just to let off some steam. It just became my golf, you know, in many ways. Most doctors have golf as a hobby. Mine was doing comedy.

You know who first started calling me ‘The Cowboy’ – Paul Richards. He loved to play golf and when he came to Los Angeles he used to call me up and I’d arrange for him to play at Lakeside and when he saw me, he always called me ‘Cowboy’ and everybody else in baseball picked it up.

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they’d starve to death.

If you’ve driven over to the gay section of Los Angeles, it’s like a golf course… Real estate values go ‘boom!’

Both of us played basketball, and I played tennis and my knees are done. Now if you ask us head-to-head who wins at golf, I’m asking for a couple of strokes.

Golf can be tougher than tennis when things go wrong, because you can’t explain things by saying that your opponent played better than you. It’s a cruel sport in that way.

In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.

I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf.

Whenever I walk off the golf course, I thank God that I’m able to tell a joke. I thank God I’m good at something.

The Olympics will be great for the growth of golf on a global scale, but my focus right now is on being the best player I can be, trying to win Major Championships and contributing to what will hopefully be a victorious European side at the forthcoming Ryder Cup Matches against the USA.

Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference.

When I’m not acting, I’m playing golf. I’m pretty passionate about it.

Brushing up on your short game at the practice area is fine and good, but taking it with you to the golf course – when your score is really on the line – is another story.

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

You know, when you’re trying to get better at golf, you’re always measuring your game up against other people to see what you’ve got to do to get better and to see if you can compete with them.

For me, take Tiger Woods. I always thought he was great, but I never truly understood how good he was until I had the chance to go to Tiger Woods Golf Camp. He taught me how to swing and was hitting the ball, and this dude was unreal.

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.

‘Golf Digest’ had all the old school swings, and my favorite swing, ever, was Nick Faldo’s swing. And it had all the greats, Ernie Els and Nick Faldo and all that stuff, and I had the pictures of their swing sequences on my wall.

My doctor asked me how many golf balls I had hit in my career. I’m lying there in bed calculating somewhere between four and five million golf balls I had hit to do that on my body.

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.

I’m very excited every time I’m at Augusta National. It’s such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.

My golf is woeful but I will never surrender.

I’ve always said, the harder the golf course, the better I play.

Golf is a thinking man’s game. You can have all the shots in the bag, but if you don’t know what to do with them, you’ve got troubles.

When I’m on really tough golf courses, I feel like I’m more focused because I’m really trying to hit the ball to a certain spot, instead of, a lot of times, when I struggle sometimes is just staying mentally focused on every shot.