Golf Quotes - Page 7

You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life.

Your final goal is to convert your athletic swing to pure instinct rather than conscious thought.

Two things I take very seriously in life. My golf game and my relationship with God. Neither one is simple

Nothing dissects a man in public quite like golf.

Nothing goes down slower than a golf handicap.

If I had ever been set down in any one place and told I was to play there, and nowhere else, for the rest of my life, I should have chosen the Old Course at St. Andrews.

If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.

It isn't the hours that you put in at practice that count. It's the way you spend those minutes.

He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie.

There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

Golf's a funny game. You can be playing poorly and then go and win a tournament.

The more I practice, the luckier I get.

If you play golf, you are my friend.

We learn so many things from golf: how to suffer, for instance.

Golf is a non-violent game played violently from within.

Golfers are the greatest worriers in the world of sport.

Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life not to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy.

I never played a perfect 18 holes. There is no such thing. I expect to make at least seven mistakes a round. Therefore, when I make a bad shot, I don't worry about it. It is just one of the seven.

I always say golf's a really good exposer of a player's personality.

Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around.

I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis tournaments.

They call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken.

Golf isn't like other sports where you can take a player out if he's having a bad day. You have to play the whole game.

I didn't miss the putt. I made the putt. The ball missed the hole.

There is one thing in this world that is dumber than playing golf. That is watching someone else playing golf. What do you actually get to see? Thirty-seven guys in polyester slacks squinting at the sun. Doesn't that set your blood racing?