Quotes on Golf

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

It's odd that the word 'atheist' even exist. I don't play golf, is there a word for non-golf players ?

O. J. Simpson has already received the ultimate punishment: For the rest of his life he has to associate with golfers.

Ninety percent of putts that are short, don't go in.

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

When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.

Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.

Golf is like life in a lot of ways - All the biggest wounds are self-inflicted.

Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.

But in the end it's still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you've missed the point.

You can win tournaments when you're mechanical, but golf is a game of emotion and adjustment. If you're not aware of what's happening to your mind and your body when you're playing, you'll never be able to be the very best you can be.

He [the golfer] must have the courage to keep trying in the face of ill luck or disappointment, and timidity to appreciate and appraise the dangers of each stroke, and to curb the desire to take chances beyond reasonable hope of success.

Golf tips are like aspirin. One may do you good, but if you swallow the whole bottle you will be lucky to survive.

There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which is the most bitter.

Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than nineteen years of dealing with him across the desk.

Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with one ounce more brain than a cuckoo clock. I wish to goodness I knew the man who invented this infernal game. I'd strangle him. But I suppose he's been dead for ages. Still, I could go and jump on his grave.

Dream golf is simply golf played on another course. We chip from glass tables onto moving stairways; we swing in a straightjacket, through masses of cobweb, and awaken not with any sense of unjust hazard but only with a regret that the round can never be completed, and that one of our phantasmal companions has kept the scorecard.

There was clearly great charm and worth in a sport so quaintly perverse in its basic instructions. Hit down to make the ball rise. Swing easy to make it go far. Finish high to make it go straight.

It is a wonderful tribute to the game or to the dottiness of the people who play it that for some people somewhere there is no such thing as an insurmountable obstacle, an unplayable course, the wrong time of the day or year.

The point is that it doesn't matter if you look like a beast before or after the hit, as long as you look like a beauty at the moment of impact.