Golf Quotes - Page 40

Boxing's a poor man's sport. We can't afford to play golf or tennis. It is what it is. It's kept so many kids off the street. It kept me off the street.

Make friends with your caddie and the game will make friends with you.

I can accomplish all those. It's really awkward, kind of, for me coming out here and being in a competitive golf atmosphere. I don't get to do it but once a year, except my, like, local tournaments back home in Oakland.

I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting.

When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him.

The terrible beauty is that in the brotherhood of golf we are all the same - certifiable.

Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemeteries.

I did 'Formula 51' because I got to run around Liverpool in a kilt, with golf clubs.

The life of the golfer is not all gloom; There's always the lies in the locker room.

If you'd offered me a 69 at the start this morning I'd have been all over you!

To quit between tee and green is more habit-forming than drinking a highball before breakfast.

I hope I'll never get too old to want to take part in this event, and I don't think I will ever age that much.

I've said a thousand times, you can't go into a shop and buy a good golf game.

Golf is played with the arms.

Thinking instead of acting is the number one golf disease.

Leaving golf aside for the moment, I'd choose Roger Federer as a sporting role model, Muhammad Ali for a sporting and non-sporting role model and Nelson Mandela as a true and lasting inspiration.

The trouble that most of us find with the modern matched sets of clubs is that they don't really seem to know any more about the game than the old ones did.

We find things where we look for them, which is why I never look for a golf ball out of bounds.

Anyone of my generation who trusts government probably has an I.Q. that would make a good golf score.

You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later.

I'm a thirty-something ranch wife, mother of four, moderately agoraphobic middle child who grew up on a golf course in the city.

Visualization. It may be the most important part of your mental package.

It should almost be a prerequisite to play Castle Stuart before you're allowed to design golf courses nowadays.

Not a week goes by without my learning something new about golf. That means, of course, that I was ignorant of eight things about golf two months ago. Extend that process back nearly twenty years and the result is an impressive accumulation of ignorance.

Those trees seem to grow every year.