Golf Quotes - Page 19

Golf is fluid. It's always changing. It's always evolving. First of all, you never master it.

You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say that I'd rather have won the U.S. Open Golf Tournament.

My style of play won't ever change, because I enjoy that aggressive style of golf. It allows me to play my best. When I attack pins, I stay more focused. I get more into the shot and, consequently, I get more out of the shot and out of my game by playing aggressive.

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

The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.

I bleed all the time. I play golf and stuff, so there's always something, nicks and stuff, here and there.

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

I thought Manual Labor was a Mexican golf pro.

I'm in the woods so much I can tell you which plants are edible.

Nine holes of golf will take you one-and-a-half, two hours. I run in 20 minutes, I feel better off. So the cost benefit made me drop golf.

When you make a mistake, the ocean gives you an instant reminder. You get punished. If golf clubs could shock you every time you hit the ball wrong, we'd probably learn how to play golf pretty well.

Golf is the only opportunity that middle-aged WASPs have to dress up like a pimp.

When Nicklaus plays wells well, he wins. When he plays badly, he finishes second. When he plays terribly, he finishes third.

Sometimes things work out on the golf course and sometimes they don't. Life will go on. You try to understand what happens, but maybe today I don't want to know. I just screwed up so maybe I should just put it behind me.

There is no room on the golf course for anger or self-pity.

The object of a bunker or trap is not only to punish a physical mistake, to punish lack of control, but also to punish pride and egotism.

The only thing you should force in a golf swing is the club back in the bag.

It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.

I went to play golf and tried to shoot my age, but I shot my weight instead.

I don't like the glamour. I just like the game.

The reason I don't play golf is because I was a caddie when I was 13. Women never gave up a golf ball that was lost somewhere in the trees and thicket and down through the poison ivy. It was during one of these searches that I vowed to the Lord above that if I ever earned enough money I would never set foot on a course again.

In Hollywood, we have some of the richest unemployed people in the world. They have sun tans. Some of them have chauffeurs in Rolls-Royces waiting outside. They have their golf clubs ready in the car. There is no law that says you cannot play golf while being unemployed.

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.

If you don't set goals, you'll never reach them. Or like they say in golf, if you aim for nothing, you'll hit it every time. Take any player in the major leagues: I'd say just about everyone of them had a dream - a goal - to be a big-leaguer when they were kids. It wasn't an easy goal, but it was a reachable one, and that's important.

Miss a putt for $2,000? Not likely!