Golf Quotes

I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.

Tiger Woods

Life is a game but golf is serious.

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In golf as in life it is the follow through that makes the difference.

Source Unknown

Although Golf was originally restricted to wealthy Protestants, today its open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

Dave Barry

The putter looks like a bunch of nuts and bolts welded together, but the ball goes in the hole.

Julius Boros, said after winning

I used to get out there and have a thousand swing thoughts. Now I try not to have any.

Davis Love, Jr.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Mark Twain

Golf is very much like a love affair, if you don't take it seriously, it's no fun, if you do, it breaks your heart. Don't break your heart, but flirt with the possibility.

Louise Suggs

Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around.

Rick Reilly

By the time you get to your ball, if you don't know what to do with it, try another sport.

Julius Boros

When it's breezy, hit it easy.

Davis Love, Jr.

I look into their eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking, 'I am going to bury you.

Seve Ballesteros

These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

Sam Snead

It will always be the ball and me.

Tiger Woods

Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behavior not otherwise excusable.

Auberon Herbert

Magellan went around the world in 1521, which is not too many strokes when you consider the distance.

Joe Laurie Jr.

Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.

Amy Strum Alcott

Golf: A game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of youth

Samuel Johnson

Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?

Al Boliska

The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.

Nancy Lopez