I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to hit a golf ball.
I found golf late in life, in 1990. I took some lessons and struggled. Then one day, I hit a drive that was so crisp and clean, with no vibration. There's no feeling like it. I was hooked.
I get in my golf cart with my dogs, I have five dogs.
You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience.
President Obama and his family are spending the holidays in Hawaii, and while they're gone, they got a fence jumper to house sit. Tomorrow, he will be in Hawaii playing golf with Raul Castro and the Pope.
At my first Masters, I got the feeling, that if I didn't play well, I wouldn't go to heaven.
Talking about golf is always boring. Playing golf can be interesting, but not the part where you try to hit the little ball; only the part where you drive the cart.
For one thing, I like to walk when I play golf. Now I don't walk the whole way, but I try not to be the driver when in a cart.
But I do have time to pencil in golf, and we've got four excellent courses.
It was a gift, something you can't teach. His hands looked like they were born to have a golf club in them.
Under pressure, one of the most important things I have to remember to do is breathe.
I don't like anything that's "just an escape." To me the best part of golf is that, unlike my tennis game, I can actually get better. I've probably reached my plateau in tennis, but in golf I have a lot of room for improvement. I really enjoy working on my game. I like practicing. I chart my rounds.
To be truthful, I think golfers are overpaid. It's unreal, and I have trouble dealing with the guilt sometimes.
The fundamental problem with golf is that every so often, no matter how lacking you may be in the essential virtues required of a steady player, the odds are that one day you will hit the ball straight, hard, and out of sight. This is the essential frustration of this excruciating sport. For when you've done it once, you make the fundamental error of asking yourself why you can't do this all the time. The answer to this question is simple: the first time was a fluke.
I was on the dance floor but I couldn't hear the band.
Playing golf is not hot work. Cutting sugar cane for a dollar a day - that's hot work. Hotter than my first wrist watch.
I never pray to God to make a putt. I pray to God to help me react good if I miss a putt.
The best putting advice I ever received was make sure you concentrate real hard on keeping that darn ball real low
Jack Nicklaus is a legend in his spare time.
Trevino is in a league by himself. We don't even count him. We figure when you come in second, you're a winner.
Playing golf is like raising children. You keep thinking you'll do better next time.
Concentrate on hitting the green. The cup will come to you.
Anyone who hasn't been nervous, or hasn't choked somewhere down the line, is an idiot.
I run like an electric golf cart. Now I look at eating as a way to feed my body and keep me younger. It's not about starving your body, but treating your body like a Ferrari. You don't put in the crappiest gas you can find. You use supreme. In the long term, you'll run clean
Winners are different. They're a different breed of cat.
