Quotes on Golfing

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

I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you're working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn't dream of interrupting on the golf course.

Golf is a funny game. It's done much for health, and at the same time has ruined people by robbing them of their peace of mind. Look at me, I'm the healthiest idiot in the world.

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

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

Baseball reveals character; golf exposes it.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.