Golf Quotes - Page 33

It's mass confusion. I'm guessing on every shot. About the only thing left for me is acupuncture in the brain.

My caddie 'Stovepipe' tried to talk me into hitting a 3-wood. But I took out the turf rider (4-wood) instead. The moment I hit it, I felt something in my bones. Walter Hagen was playing with me and Bobby Jones was on the green. 21 people were behind the green. The sun was going down. I wasn't sure it had gone in the hole until I saw all 21 people jumping up and down.

When you play the game for fun, it's fun. When you play it for a living, it's a game of sorrows.

I try to work with God as a partner.

I try not to get too emotional, whether it's going really well or going really bad, i always try to stay even keel -- which is great for golf, but it isn't always great for life.

If I could explain golf, I'd be a genius.

I don't like to watch golf on television because I can't stand people who whisper.

While I am flattered about the speculation of being enticed out of retirement, I'm happy with life as a bad golfer!

There are a lot of things in life way more important than money. All that said, some people do get confused. I play golf with a man who says, " What good is health? You can't buy money with it."

Sam Snead did to the tee-shot what Roger Bannister did to the four-minute mile.

Golf is a lot like life. When you make a decision, stick with it.

I always like to see a person stand up to a golf ball as though he were perfectly at home in its presence.

We have 51 golf courses in Palm Springs. He [President Ford] never decides which course he will play until after the first tee shot.

Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren't penalized for being on grass.

If I'm on the course and lightning starts, I get inside fast. If God wants to play through, let him.

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

Golf being a cold, calculating sort of game gives perhaps more scope for folly than any other. We have all the time in the world to make up our minds as to what is the wise thing to do and then we do the foolish one.

I dreamed one night that I had 17 holes-in-one and one two, and when I woke up I was so goddam mad.

Jesus Christ can't hit a golf ball straight. It's virtually impossible - at best it's an accident.

I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.

I don't need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?

Golf is a game of inches. The most important are the six inches between your ears.

Hit it hard, go find it and hit it hard again.

I have always wanted to live where one could practice (golf) shots in one's pajamas before breakfast.

Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses...