Famous Golf Quotes - Famous Quotes about Golf
Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.
- Dave Barry
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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course, the space between your ears.
- Bobby Tyre Jones
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For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.
- Dave Barry
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Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
- Jack Benny
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Golf is a fascinating game. It has taken me nearly forty years to discover that I can't play it.
- Ted Ray
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Golf is a good walk spoiled.
- Mark Twain
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Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But this is certainly not the case.
- Bobby Tyre Jones
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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
- Bobby Tyre Jones
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Golf is more fun than walking naked in a strange place, but not much.
- Buddy Hackett
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Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
- Tiger Woods
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I am the toughest golfer mentally.
- Tiger Woods
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I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
- Rogers Hornsby
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I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.
- Tiger Woods
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I had a wonderful experience on the golf course today. I had a hole in nothing. Missed the ball and sank the divot.
- Don Adams
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I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.
- Joey Adams
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If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
- Bob Hope
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It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me years to realize it.
- Bobby Tyre Jones
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
- Hank Aaron
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It's not enough just to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and let 'er fly.
- Babe Zaharias
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Lay off for three weeks, and then quit for good. (advice)
- Sam Snead
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My best score ever was 103, but I've only been playing 15 years.
- Alex Karras
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Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum.
- Tom Watson
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The only way to enjoy golf is to be a masochist. Go out and beat yourself to death.
- Howard Keel
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The other day I broke 70. That's a lot of clubs.
- Henny Youngman
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The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
- Bertrand Russell
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The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He's a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too.
- Bobby Tyre Jones
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The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf -- it's almost a law.
- H. G. Wells
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There is nothing in this game of golf that can't be improved upon if you practice.
- Patty Berg
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You've just got one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you've hit it.
- Sam Snead
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