Quotes on Golf Life

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.

I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

Many shots are spoiled at the last instant by efforts to add a few more yards.

I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.

It's difficult to excel at something you don't truly enjoy.

The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today. And that's how I look at my life. I will be a better golfer, I will be a better person, I will be a better father, I will be a better husband, I will be a better friend. That's the beauty of tomorrow.

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course

I get as much fun as the next man from whaling the ball as hard as I can and catching it squarely on the button. But from sad experience I learned not to try this in a round that meant anything.

A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying.

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

The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.

If there is one thing I have learned during my years as a professional, it is that the only thing constant about golf is its inconstancy.

Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But such is certainly not the case.

This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.

The most important shot in golf is the next one.

One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after year with faults we had discovered and corrected time and again.

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.