Golf Quotes - Page 15

Golf is a game, and talk and discussion is all to the interests of the game. Anything that keeps the game alive and prevents us being bored with it is an advantage. Anything that makes us think about it, talk about it, and dream about it is all to the good and prevents the game becoming dead.

Which one of you is going to be runner-up?

Golf Media is basically my brain in one place. It does just about everything except cure asthma. If you find an app that cures asthma, definitely let me know.

You don't play boxing. You really don't. You play golf, you play tennis, but you don't play boxing.

Golf course architects make me sick. They can't play themselves, so they rig the courses so nobody else can play either.

It is never easy to win but it is a lot easier to win when you play well. The key is winning golf tournaments when you are not playing so well. Managing your game is something that I feel that I am still learning to do.

Just remember, golf is flog spelled backwards.

I don't think anywhere is there a symbiotic relationship between caddie and player like there is in golf.

Mr. Agnew, I believe you have a slight swing in your flaw.

I've had a lot of majors where I didn't play well until the last round. Keep yourself in contention; that's the name of the game. I usually ended up shooting a good round and all of a sudden, somehow, I won.

Aggressive play is a vital asset of the world's greatest golfers. However, it's even more important to the average player. Attack this game in a bold, confident, and determined way, and you'll make a giant leap toward realizing your full potential as a player.

Rhythm is best expressed in any swing directed at a cigar stump or a dandelion head.

Because golf exposes the flaws of the human swing - a basically simple maneuver - it causes more self-torture than any game short of Russian roulette.

Golf always makes me so damned angry.

The ideal build for a golfer would be strong hands, big forearms, thin neck, big thighs and a flat chest. He'd look like Popeye.

Always count your blessings. Be thankful you are able to be out on a beautiful course. Most people in the world don't have that opportunity.

It's hard to tell who's going to win this week, but it probably won't be a big, fat guy.

Doesn't it show us all that we are silly little boys or fatuous asses to think that we can play golf without making a lot of bad shots?

He [the golfer] must have the courage to keep trying in the face of ill luck or disappointment, and timidity to appreciate and appraise the dangers of each stroke, and to curb the desire to take chances beyond reasonable hope of success.

I just hitch up my girdle and let 'er fly.

I can beat any two players in this tournament by myself. If I need any help, I'll let you know.

The whole secret to mastering the game of golf - and this applies to the beginner as well as the pro - is to cultivate a mental approach to the game that will enable you to shrug off the bad days, keep patient and know in your heart that sooner or later you will be back on top.

Golf seems to me an arduous way to go for a walk. I prefer to take the dogs out.

The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible.

That's the easiest 69 I ever made.