Golf Quotes - Page 14

The best exercise for golfers is golfing.

One of the things that my parents have taught me is never listen to other people's expectations. You should live your own life and live up to your own expectations, and those are the only things I really care about it.

The problem with art is, it's not like the game of golf where you put the ball in the hole. There's no umpire; there's no judge. There are no rules. It's one of its problems. But it's also one of the great things about art. It becomes a question of what lasts.

I don't believe in taking much of a divot, especially with the longer irons. You want to barely comb the grass through impact. It's the only way to catch the ball on the second groove up from the bottom of the clubface. That's where you want to make contact: on the second groove.

Caddies are a breed of their own. If you shoot 66, they say, "Man, we shot 66!" But go out and shoot 77, and they say "Hell, he shot 77!"

I was lying ten and had a thirty-five foot putt. I whispered over my shoulder: "How does this one break?" And my caddie said, "Who cares?"

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

If a caddie can help you, you don't know how to play golf.

Then Lee Trevino and Jack Nicklaus come in. I'll caddie for Jack.

Out-of-control emotions can make smart people stupid.

That was a great game of golf, fellers.

I expect to play golf until I am 90-even longer if anybody figures out a way to swing a club from a rocking chair.

That's another thing about my father. He made me very conscious of the fact I wasn't very good and I had to prove to him that I was good. And that hung with me, and I always wanted to play golf with him and show him. He said Never, Never tell anyone how good you are. Show them!

They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why.

I do not trust doctors. They are like golfers. Every one has a different answer to your problems.

All four days I didn't think. I just hit. Squeaky (Medlen, his caddy) said 'kill' and I killed it.

I see things written about the golf swing that I can't believe will work except by accident .

If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.

Enjoy the game. Happy golf is good golf.

It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of people ever really get the word about life, about living abundantly and successfully. Success in the important departments of life seldom comes naturally, no more naturally than success at anything - a musical instrument, sports, fly-fishing , tennis, golf, business, marriage, parenthood. But for some reason most people wait passively for success to come to them ..., living as other people are living in the unspoken, tacit assumption that other people know how to live successfully.

I was swinging like a toilet door on a prawn trawler.

I am a millionaire today and my wife deserves all of the credit. Before I met her I was a multi-millionaire.

The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.

You learn to accept defeat graciously in golf. Unlike other sports, the game itself is a constant opponent. It never stops. A golfer is fortunate to win a few times. We spend our whole lives trying to conquer something, and we lose a lot more than we win.

They say golf came easy to me because I was a good athlete, but there's not any girl on the LPGA Tour who worked near as hard as I did in golf. It's the toughest game I ever tackled.