Famous Quotes & Sayings

P. G. Wodehouse

Many bad golfers marry, feeling that a wife's loving solicitude may improve their game. But they are rugged, thick-skinned men, not sensitive and introspective. It is one of the chief merits of golf that non-success at the game induces a certain amount of decent humilty, which keeps a man from pluming himself too much on any petty triumphs he may achieve in other walks of life.

P. G. Wodehouse

The test of a great golfer is his ability to recover from a bad start.

P. G. Wodehouse

There are three things in the world that he held in the smallest esteem - slugs, poets and caddies with hiccups.

P. G. Wodehouse

Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious.

Paul Pierce

I worked at a hospital for a week. And at a golf course when I was in college at Kansas for about a week. The tips weren't good so I quit.

Mark Goddard

Let the machine take care of the machines, and I'll go spend more time with my family, or golf.

Paul Harvey

All my life I wanted to play golf like Jack Nicklaus, and now I do.

Patty Sheehan

I like the thought of playing for money instead of silverware. I never did like to polish.

Patty Sheehan

The worst advice in golf is, 'Keep your head down.'

Paul Azinger

Staying in the present is the key to any golfer's game: once you start thinking about a shot you just messed up or what you have to do on the next nine to catch somebody, you're lost.

Paul Azinger

Great champions learn from past experiences, whether those be good or bad. A lot of times a guy needs to be knocked down before he gets up and fights.

Paul Azinger

I don't enjoy playing video golf because there is nothing to throw.

King Edward VIII

I like going there for golf. America is one vast golf course today.

King Edward VIII

When you are too old to play golf, you had better die.

Milton Berle

Just remember, golf is flog spelled backwards.

Nancy Lopez

Golf is a difficult game, but it's a little easier if you trust your instincts. It's too hard a game to try to play like someone else.

Nancy Lopez

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

Nancy Lopez

The simpler I keep things, the better I play.

Kathy Whitworth

Golf, more than most games, has a number of clichés, often successfully disguised as 'tips'. Watch out!

Kathy Whitworth

There's an old saying,'It's a poor craftsman who blames his tools.' It's usually the player who misses those three-footers, not the putter.

Kathy Whitworth

Golf is a game of misses, and the winners are those who have the best misses

Kathy Whitworth

There are no absolutes in golf. Golf is such an individual game, and no two people swing alike.

Ken Venturi

The only times you touch the ball with your hand are when you tee it up and when you pick it out of the cup. The hell with television towers and cables and burrowing animals and the thousand and one things that are referred to as 'not part of the golf course'. If you hit the ball off the fairway, you play it from there.

Ken Venturi

The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn't wired that way. You're accustomed to trying to make putts, and when you change that mind-set, your brain short-circuits, especially under pressure.

Ken Venturi

All of us have an 'inner clock,' a certain pace at which we function most comfortably and effectively.

Ken Venturi

You can't make good scores happen. You've got to let it happen.

Ken Venturi

After you have the basics down it's all mental.

Nick Saban

I asked my priest if it was a sin to play golf on Sunday. And he said, "It's a sin for you to play anytime."

Muhammad Ali

I'm the best. I just haven't played yet.

Mitch Hedberg

I played golf... I did not get a hole in one, but I did hit a guy. That's way more satisfying...

Paul Gallico

If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.

Padraig Harrington

I don't support the belly putter. I think it's bad for the game of golf.

Lee Westwood

You're the only one in control over your golf ball. It's not like tennis: you're hitting a shot and somebody's hitting it back at you.