Golf Quotes - Page 66

I don't have a lot of hobbies. I don't play golf. I don't have any children. Things that occupy people's time. I just try to take jobs.

There is no shape nor size of body, no awkwardness nor ungainliness, which puts good golf beyond reach. There are good golfers with spectacles, with one eye, with one leg, even with one arm. In golf, while there is life there is hope.

There is only one categorical imperative in golf, and that is to hit the ball. There are no minor absolutes.

The arc of your swing doesn't have a thing to do with the size of your heart.

You can always spot the employee playing golf with his boss. He's the fellow who makes a hole in one and says, "oops!"

Arnold Palmer is the biggest crowd pleaser since the invention of the portable sanitary facility.

On one hole, I hit an alligator so hard, he's now my golf bag.

I've been playing the game so long that my handicap is in Roman numerals.

The last time I played golf with President Ford he hit a birdie. And an eagle, a moose, an elk, an aardvark...

My old friend Jack Benny has only had one ball all his golfing life. And now he's lost it. The string came off!

Jimmy Stewart could have been a good golfer, but he speaks so slowly that by the time he yells 'Fore!' the guy he's hit is already in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.

You win all the Tucsons, all the Kemps, all the Iron City Opens you can, nobody remembers. You win a Masters, nobody ever forgets

I may go for it or I may not. It all depends on what I elect to do on my backswing.

Ours is a youth culture, and like a golf tournament, we honor only low scores.

I don't believe there is anything like a natural golf swing. A golf swing is an unnatural thing, and it has to be developed.

We just became very good friends [with Dwight Eisenhower], we played golf, we played heart exhibitions. Then his doctor said he should not play golf anymore.

From the beginning it was drilled into me that a golf course was a place where character fully reveals itself -- both its strengths and its flaws. As a result, I learned early not only to fix my ball marks but also to congratulate an opponent on a good shot, avoid walking ahead of a player preparing to shoot, remain perfectly still when someone else was playing, and a score of other small courtesies that revealed, in my father's mind, one's abiding respect for the game.

Most of the difficult things in golf are mental, not physical. Are subjective, not objective. Are the created phantasms of the mind, not the veritable realities of the course.

Fox News reported Thursday that Bill Clinton can't get into any of New York's better golf and country clubs. Not one member has been willing to sponsor him. So it's official, he really is America's first black president.

I told my caddie today that I am in the position that I want to be in. That this is what I have been waiting for, to win my tenth victory. I said that I am going to do everything that I can do today and that nothing is going to stop me.

Ron Syriac, a golf writer and friend, was quoted as saying, "Annika is no longer a female golfer. She's a golfer." That's truly all I ever aspired to be.

For many years I had an impression of my golf swing, which was that I vividly resembled Tom Weiskopf in the takeaway and Dave Marr on the downswing. Unfortunately, there came a day when I was invited to have my golf swing filmed via a video camera. Something I will never do again. When it was played back, what I saw - what you would have seen - was not Weiskopf and Marr but a man simultaneously climbing into a sweater and falling out of a tree.

I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush has brought greater balm to the extremities of the senior golfer than the golfmobile, a word that will have to do for want of a better.

Every rock'n'roll band I know, guys with long hair and tattoos, plays golf now.

Being a Scotsman, I am naturally opposed to water in its undiluted state.