Golf Quotes - Page 10

Like life, golf can be humbling. However, little good comes from brooding about mistakes we've made. The next shot, in golf or in life, is the big one.

If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.

Two things that are not long for this world: dogs that chase cars and professional golfers who putt for pars.

To play well you must feel tranquil and at peace. I have never been troubled by nerves in golf because I felt I had nothing to lose and everything to gain.

The greatest thing about golf, there's no end to it unless you're dead. You just go from here to the Senior Tour.

A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill.

Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots.

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.

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

No matter what happens - never give up a hole....In tossing in your cards after a bad beginning you also undermine your whole game, because to quit between tee and green is more habit-forming than drinking a highball before breakfast.

To me, the [British] Open is the tournament I would come to if I had to leave a month before and swim over.

Coretta Scott King was all about her pearl earrings. At one point, I'm wearing pearl earrings the size of golf balls. They're enormous! She was bold-she knew that she was the Jackie Kennedy of her community.

When I have a match to play, I begin to relax as soon as I wake up. Everything I do, I do slow and easy. That goes for stroking the razor, getting dressed, and eating my breakfast. I'm practically in slow motion. By the time I'm ready to tee off, I'm so used to taking my time that it's impossible to hurry my swing.

Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.

Lessons are not to take the place of practice, but to make practice worthwhile.

On a recent survey, 80 percent of golfers admitted cheating. The other 20 percent lied.

You build a golf game like you build a wall, one brick at a time.

If you think your hands are more important in your golf swing than your legs, try walking a hole on your hands.

Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.

Watching Phil Mickelson play golf is like watching a drunk chasing a balloon near the edge of a cliff.

I've heard people say putting is 50 percent technique and 50 percent mental. I really believe it is 50 percent technique and 90 percent positive thinking, see, but that adds up to 140 percent, which is why nobody is 100 percent sure how to putt.

I think the hardest part about Golf is being committed to your wife

If God wanted you to putt cross-handed, he would have made your left arm longer.

A good putter is a match for anyone. A bad putter is a match for no one.

I got so strong I felt like a giant.....When I stood on the tee with Arnold and Jack, I was tiny compared to them. But I never believed they were bigger than me. So the mind is so fascinating.