Golf Quotes - Page 36

A hungry dog hunts best.

I didn't want to change the name on the towels.

[Jack Nicklaus] was the first to bring in course management. He could go to a course and tell you within one stroke what was going to win. He used to set his sights on that because he could shoot it. He was the only player I know who, if he decided he wanted to win a tournament, could go out and do it. No one will ever be as popular as Arnold Palmer and no one will ever come close to Jack as a player.

I'm a golfaholic. And all the counseling in the world wouldn't help me.

If it wasn't for golf, I don't know what I'd be doing. If my IQ had been two points lower, I'd have been a plant somewhere.

I guess I'm not a professional's professional. I think I'd rather go to the dentist than play a practice round.

I like going there for golf. America is one vast golf course today.

When you are too old to play golf, you had better die.

There's an old saying,'It's a poor craftsman who blames his tools.' It's usually the player who misses those three-footers, not the putter.

Golf is a game of misses, and the winners are those who have the best misses

I like to play golf. I like to shoot hoops.

Retire to what? I already play golf and fish for a living.

By the time you get to your ball, if you don't know what to do with it, try another sport.

No one has ever conquered this game. One week out there and you are God, next time you are the devil. But it does keep you coming back.

The dollars aren't so important... once you have them.

Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.

The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

If he takes the option of dropping behind the point where the ball rests, keeping in line with the pin, his nearest drop is Honolulu.

He's hit it fat.... It will probably be short.... It just hit the front edge of the green.... It's got no chance.... It's rolling toward the cup.... Well I'll be damned!

Bob Hope has a beautiful short game. Unfortunately, it's off the tee.

I tried real hard to play golf, and I was so bad at it they would have to check me for ticks at the end of the round because I'd spent about half the day in the woods.

Wait until France gets a hard shot in the nose. Wait until France reacts with some nasty work. They'll get a golf-clap from the chattering class over here and a you-go-girl from Red America. France could nuke an Algerian terrorist camp and the rest of the world would tut-tut for a day, then ask if the missiles France used were for sale. And of course the answer would be oui.

I always thought of myself as some sort of athlete until I started playing golf a couple years ago.

You hang around with good people, you play a lot of golf, and you have a pretty good life. That's what success is all about. It's getting people you like, who want to take the hill with you, who want to win, who have the passion. This is not rocket science.