Golf Quotes - Page 24

These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

The only reason I ever played in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.

I'm happy with the success I've had, and I feel like there's been a lot that I've learned this year, and that's a great thing going into the future.

By the time I retire, I will have fought the best. I will have made my money. Maybe I'll be a boxing commentator. I'll go back to school, definitely. I already have a plan. My life's set. I'll be on an island, married, playing golf in the sun. That will be my life.

From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.

I developed osteoporosis of the personality. My thought processes became brittle.

Luck usually visits me at 2 am on a cold morning when, red-eyed and bone-weary, I am pouring over law books preparing a case. It never visits me when I am at the cinema, on a golf course or reclining in an easy chair.

Most people play a fair game of golf - if you watch them.

If we had to play Augusta National in one hour, the best athlete would win the Masters. But as it is, they give us time to hang ourselves. Every swing is a 'thought shot'. So instead of the best athlete, you end up with the best thinker as the winner.

Such is putting! 2% technique, 98% inspiration or confidence or touch...the only thing great putters have in common is touch and that is the critical ingredient...none of them found it through mechanizing a stroke, nor do I believe they could maintain it that way.

In tennis you move a lot. Golf you dont. In tennis, you can have a bad half-hour, but you cant in golf. You can lose the first set in tennis and still win.

"Play it as it lies" is one of the fundamental dictates of golf

There are many ways of performing the operations successfully. I can claim, however, to be in a position to explain how not to putt. I think I know as well as anybody how not to do it.

Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt.

Playing from deep grass is a fact of life in professional golf.

Is there such a thing as a technically perfect swing? If there is, I have yet to see it.

Ive always said that if I could do anything in the world, I would be a professional golfer.

I'm a great believer that if you don't get the ball to the hole, it won't go in.

A golf ball is like a clock. Always hit it at 6 o'clock and make it go toward 12 o'clock. But make sure you're in the same time zone.

I've had a good day when I don't fall out of the cart.

I used to go to the driving range to practice driving without slicing. Now I go to practice slicing without swearing.

I have never felt so lonely as on a golf course in the midst of a championship with thousands of people around, especially when things began to go wrong and the crowds started wandering away.

Pebble Beach is Alcatraz with grass.

I see no reason that a golf course cannot be played in 18 birdies. Just because no one has ever done that doesn't mean it can't be done.

The reason the Road Hole at St. Andrews is the most difficult par 4 in the world is that it was designed as a par 6.