Golf Quotes - Page 35

I'd say that golf is about 75% mental. If your state of mind gets out of kilter, you're worse off than a tomcat floating on a log.

My golf-loving friend Bob Hope asked me what my handicap was, so I told him - the Congress.

Golf is to me what his Sabine farm was to the poet Horace - a solace and an inspiration.

The game lends itself to fantasies about our abilities.

It is not a matter of life and death. It is not that important. But it is a reflection of life, and so the game is an enigma wrapped in a mystery impaled on a conundrum.

Practice, work out, proper nutrition, lots of work on my short game. In golf, that's really where the strokes come off the scorecard.

Every woman should recruit a female friend to take up golf so there will be more women available to play.

I don't support the belly putter. I think it's bad for the game of golf.

Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.

They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

We know that golf is an ancient game with great history and tradition, but our golf is only 10 years old so don't judge us too harshly.

I never mixed with golfers when I was playing, mainly because I didn't want to talk golf all night.

I was a little stunned that we didn't get a coloring book with this menu.

The word is control. That's my ultimate - to have control.

Irish gardens beat all for horror. With 19 gardeners, Lord Talbot of Malahide has produced an affair exactly like a suburban golf course.

Golf does strange things to other people, too. It makes liars out of honest men, cheats out of altruists, cowards out of brave men and fools out of everybody.

I love swimming, tennis, and I am taking up golf. I am not serious about it, I just go to the range and practice. Other than that, I enjoy going to the movies and hanging out with my friends.

But there is a difference between playing well and hitting the ball well. Hitting the ball well is about thirty percent of it. The rest is being comfortable with the different situations on the course.

If you expect a bad lie for even one second, the gods will know it and give you a bad lie.

If I ever get bored with golf, I'm going to start over and play lefthanded.

This is where God hangs out.

You must attain a neurological and biological serenity in chaos. You cannot let yourself be sabotaged by adrenaline.

Golf is difficult to get your personality over because you are such a bottle of concentration.

It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.