Golf Quotes - Page 45

I play with friends, but we don't play friendly games.

Like most professional golfers, I have a tendency to remember my poor shots a shade more vividly than the good ones.

You hear stories about me beating my brains out practising, but the truth is, I was enjoying myself. I couldn't wait to get up in the morning, so I could hit balls. When I'm hitting the ball where I want, hard and crisply, it's a joy that very few people experience.

This is happening all over the world. It's not just this golf course. Hopefully, if it stays dry, it will let a few more people in (contention). If it gets wet, though, there's only a few people where it's attainable.

Every day I play golf, that's my goal. To break 70 the other way. To shoot 70 or better.

I was playing golf in Palm Springs and after a round I asked the waitress in a restaurant to bring me a glass of iced tea and lemonade. A lady sitting nearby heard me and asked the waitress to bring her a "Palmer," too. The name caught on and the beverage quickly spread around the country.

I never rooted against an opponent, but I never rooted for him either.

How did I make a twelve on a par five hole? It's simple - I missed a four foot putt for an eleven.

Golf is a game in which attitude of mind counts for incomparably more than mightiness of muscle.

Golf is more exacting than racing, cards, speculation, or matrimony. In almost all other games you pit yourself against a mortal foe; in golf it is yourself against the world: no human being stays your progress as you drive your ball over the face of the globe.

I've learned a lot about my game every time I play golf in a men's event.

To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and subtle series of highly unnatural movements, involving about sixty-four muscles, that result in a seemingly natural swing, taking two seconds to begin and end.

In golf, humiliations are the essence of the game.

Fifty years ago, 100 white men chasing one black man across a field was called the Ku Klux Klan. Today it's called the PGA Tour.

I enjoy now doing what I do... playing golf, relaxing a little, enjoying life.

A friend of mine, a dedicated golfer, shot a hole in one playing by himself. Disaster.

There are two basic rules which should never be broken. Be subtle. And don't, for God's sake, try to do business with anyone who's having a bad game.

Golf is a wonderful exercise. You can stand on your feet for hours, watching somebody else putt.

Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.

I don't want to be a millionaire; just live like one.

There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.

There are some guys out here that can really play golf, but it has not been their focus for that long.

I had very low expectations. Honestly, I think I had 11 rounds of golf the entire year in before this tournament, and I had hit balls maybe four or five times.

The less said about the putter the better. Here is an instrument of torture, designed by Tantalus and forged in the devil's own smithy.

Golf is like solitaire. When you cheat, you cheat only yourself.