Golf Quotes - Page 46

When I'm in this state, everything is pure, vividly clear. I'm in a cocoon of concentration.

Everybody has two swings: the one he uses during the last three holes of a tournament and the one he uses the rest of the time.

They throw their clubs backwards, and that's wrong. You should always throw a club ahead of you so that you don't have to walk any extra distance to get it.

Golf is a game where guts and blind devotion will always net you absolutely nothing but an ulcer.

The good chip allows you to whistle while you walk in the dark alleys of golf.

I am absolutely delighted to have come second. Who cares about winning when you can be second? I love being runner-up.

Ballybunion is the course on which many golf architects should live and play on before they build golf courses.

After playing Ballybunion for the first time, a man would think that the game of golf originated here.

Muirfield without a wind is like a lady undressed. No challenge.

No matter what calamities befall him in everyday life, the true hacker still needs the pressure and inconvenience of four hours of trudging in wind or rain or sleet or sun (or all of them at once), hacking at a white pellet that seems to have a mind of its own and a lousy sense of direction.

There are two things you can learn by stopping your backswing at the top and checking the position of your hands; how many hands you have, and which one is wearing the glove.

Golf course design is exciting.

It's a heck of a lot harder to stay on top than it is to get there.

The best designs of all are organic, evolving from the subtleties of the ground they inhabit.

Like one's own children, golf has an uncanny way of endearing itself to us while at the same time evoking every weakness of mind and character, no matter how well hidden.

I'm addicted. I'm addicted to golf.

I am the toughest golfer mentally.

I love to play to win.

When things go right and you test properly and you find equipment that's better than what you were playing, then you can do some pretty neat things on the golf course.

The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today. And that's how I look at my life. I will be a better golfer, I will be a better person, I will be a better father, I will be a better husband, I will be a better friend. That's the beauty of tomorrow.

I love to play golf, and that's my arena. And you can characterize it and describe it however you want, but I have a love and a passion for getting that ball in the hole and beating those guys.

I don't know if I even have an aura, man. I just try to win.

I do plan to return to golf one day. I just don't know when that day will be.

Early in my career when we went to golf tournaments and charity dinners I noticed businessmen and executives would give the players their cards. Well, they're giving you their cards for a reason. I said to my wife, 'All the guys get these cards and then when they get to the parking lot they rip them up or throw them away. It's really weird.' My wife .. said maybe you should just sign a picture and mail it to them. You know, 'Great playing golf with you,' or whatever. So, I did and lo and behold some of those guys I sent pictures to way back then are now CEOs at big companies.

A golf course should aspire to generate as much energy as it consumes - golf should be leading the way toward energy net zero.