Golf Quotes - Page 3

Forget your opponents; always play against par.

The rewards of golf, and of life too I expect, are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules.

Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.

In order to win, you must play your best golf when you need it most, and play your sloppy stuff when you can afford it. I shall not attempt to explain how you achieve this happy timing.

The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win.

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

It's a marriage. If I had to choose between my wife and my putter, well, I'd miss her.

Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But such is certainly not the case.

Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you're prepared to lose.

I'm going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money-winners list.

I'd like to see the fairways more narrow. Then everybody would have to play from the rough, not just me.

The older I get, the better I used to be.

If there is one thing I have learned during my years as a professional, it is that the only thing constant about golf is its inconstancy.

Focus on remedies, not faults.

The most important shot in golf is the next one.

I will just put four or five extra packs of cigarettes in my bag and I will be fine.

In golf your strengths and weaknesses will always be there. If you could improve your weaknesses, you would improve your game. The irony is that people prefer to practice their strengths.

I'm not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they'd come up sliced.

Golf tips are like aspirin. One may do you good, but if you swallow the whole bottle you will be lucky to survive.

All seasoned players know, or at least have felt, that when you are playing your best, you are much the same as in a state of meditation. You are free of tension and chatter. You are concentrating on one thing. It is the ideal condition for good golf.

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.

I miss. I miss. I miss. I make.

You know I need that cockiness, the self-belief, arrogance, swagger, whatever you want to call it, I need that on the golf course to bring the best out of myself. So you know once I leave the golf course, you know that all gets left there.

It's nice to worry about playing golf and not all the other stuff.

No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why golf is the greatest of games. You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.