Golf Quotes

Golf is played between the ears and if you are not 100 percent focused on what you are trying to do, then people will go past you no matter who you are.

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

Golf is a matter of confidence. If you think you cannot do it, there is no chance you will.

They call it golf because all the other four letter words were taken.

I've never really played golf. With the sax, I learned technique well enough so that it feels like part of my body, and I just express myself. That's where I want to get in golf.

There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.

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.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

But I think the guys are very happy to accommodate the people and that's part of golf in general.

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.

In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.

Golf is difficult to get your personality over because you are such a bottle of concentration.

That's what makes the Ryder Cup in golf so much better than the Masters or the U.S. Open. To be a part of something that is not about personal achievement, but about representing everyone and sharing it with the whole country, it's wonderful.

I don't have a lot of hobbies. I don't play golf. I don't have any children. Things that occupy people's time. I just try to take jobs.

I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?

Two things I take very seriously in life. My golf game and my relationship with God. Neither one is simple.

You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later.

Golf courses sell real estate and that's why they're built.

In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.

Golf has become so manicured, so perfect. The greens, the fairways. I don't like golf carts. I like walking. Some clubs won't let you in unless you have a caddy and a cart.

They talk about Amen Corner but there's so much more to it than what meets the eye on this golf course.

I still play hockey every now and then, and I still golf. But my biggest exercise is walking my big dog in the park every day.

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

When I was a little girl in Savannah playing, there were never enough hours in the day or holes on the golf course. I just loved the game so much.

Golf isn't just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and putting into soup cans, out of the ivy and over rose bushes and hedges - the little Alcott Golf and Country Club. I just loved having a wedge in my hands.

A golf course is nothing but a pool room moved outdoors.

I've played such good golf, and it was hard coming up and it wasn't easy in any matches or any shots. It means a lot. I think hopefully it will mean a lot to New Zealand because I'm the next winner of the U.S. Amateur after Danny Lee.

So, you know, if, if I wanted to get up and just play golf one day, I would just get up and play golf. If I wanted to go to Vegas, I would just get up and go to Vegas.