Golf Quotes - Page 31

Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.

Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.

It is a wonderful tribute to the game or to the dottiness of the people who play it that for some people somewhere there is no such thing as an insurmountable obstacle, an unplayable course, the wrong time of the day or year.

Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behaviour not otherwise excusable.

Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.

Putting allows the touchy golfer two to four opportunities to blow a gasket in the short space of two to forty feet.

I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.

Golf is a great way for someone to learn discipline, responsibility and sportsmanship.?

Remember the basic rule. Make friends with your caddie and the game will make friends with you. How true this is. It is easy to arrange that your guest opponent shall be deceived in to undertipping his caddie at the end of the morning round, so that the news gets round among the club employees that your opponent is a no good, and the boys will gang up against him.

After hitting two balls into the water- By God, I've got a good mind to jump in and make it four.

I am what I am. I love golf, I love my life, I love my family and friends.

But you don't have to go up in the stands and play your foul balls. I do.

It's been 18 months since I won on the European Tour and to win the flagship event, I could not have asked for any more.

Fitness plays such an important role in my life, and an integral part of my golf structure, that I think I might be quite good at teaching others the benefits of sport and fitness.

A lot of celebrities golf because they want to be away. For them it's a chance to get away and be peaceful. For me it's peaceful to ride [cycling].

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.

Every time you build a golf course, it’s not a golf course when you get there. You have to improvise.

Staying in the present is the key to any golfer's game: once you start thinking about a shot you just messed up or what you have to do on the next nine to catch somebody, you're lost.

Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

The simpler I keep things, the better I play.

I'm the best. I just haven't played yet.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is not a public democratic organization; it's a private club basically. It's like a private golf club and they decide who they're going to let in the club.

If you really want to become an actor, but only providing that acting doesn't interfere with your golf game, political ambitions and your life, you don't want to become an actor. Not only is acting more than a part time job, it's more than a full time job. It's a full time obsession.

I thought I might spend the rest of my time on golf. But thinking about it now, I'm happy playing whenever I have some downtime in my busy schedule, and even if I had all the time I wanted to play, my score probably wouldn't be very good.

Much of anyone's game is played (or should be played) in the short six-inch course between the ears.