Golf Quotes - Page 11

I hate a hook. It nauseates me. I could vomit when I see one. It's like a rattlesnake in your pocket.

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.

The next time I cry about golf it will only be with joy. It's not worth crying over golf for any other reason. After all, it's only a game.

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

On stage, I'm this figure, this actor, who does things that people aren't used to seeing and I relish in that reaction. In real life, though, I play golf, I shop and I walk around with no makeup on and my hair in a ponytail. I may not be the typical middle-aged Joe, but I'm closer to normal than you think.

Practice puts brains in your muscles.

What's the longest walk in golf? It's from the practice tee to the first tee. I don't care if it's 10 yards. It's the longest walk in golf. Winners take their swing with them. Losers don't.

What goes up must come down. But don't expect it to come down where you can find it.

Only bad golfers are lucky. They're the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky.

Show me a golfer who doesn't have a mean streak, and I'll show you a weak competitor.

Age doesn't make a difference either. Whether you're 20 or 70, you can still play together. There are so many different things you can do with golf that you can't do in other sports.

You have to love something and have a passion for it to be disciplined. My commitment was purely to golf

If I want to work, I can. If I want to play golf, or ride my motorcycle, I can. But the rest of it is family. Sometimes you're not really needed by your family, but you're there. And my kids like to know I'm there.

'You know Bobby, when I was your age I'd drive the ball right over those trees at the corner.' Feeling challenged Mr. Cole hit a big driver right into those big trees. Snead then said 'Of course, when I was your age, those trees were only 10 feet high.'

You've just one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you've hit it.

I was playing golf. I swung, missed the ball, and got a big chunk of dirt. I swung again, missed the ball, and got another big chunk of dirt. Just then, 2 ants climbed on the ball saying, "Let's get up here before we get killed!"

Happiness is a long walk with a putter.

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

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

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

The chief object of every golf architect or greenkeeper worth his salt is to imitate the beauties of nature so closely as to make his work indistinguishable from nature itself.

If you worry about the ones you missed, you are going to keep missing them.

Everything was fine until I walked on to the first tee!

I believe in destiny...what's going to be is going to be. If I'm going to win, I'm going to win...I don't give a damn what the other guy shoots. I'm going to win if it's my turn.

In golf, as in life, you get out of it what you put into it.