Golf Quotations | Page 2

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

In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically

I've had the luxury of playing golf around the world, and I've spent a lot of time evaluating how to play all kinds of courses.

The next time I cry about golf it will only be with joy. It's not worth crying over golf for any other reason. After all, it's only a game.

You build a golf game like you build a wall, one brick at a time.

Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.

There are a number of golfers who are playing great golf in their 40s.

Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.

I've never been one to throw clubs, break clubs, or use bad language on the golf course. I've played with golfers who've done that, and I really hate to see it. If I did something like that, my dad would come get the putter and hit me upside the head with it. I knew better.

That's the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on.

I don't like to watch golf on television because I can't stand people who whisper.

I don't go out and get arrested anymore. The most extravagant thing I do these days is play golf. I'm like an old man.

There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.

Golf in Indonesia has something else to offer: ways to make you forget the last four hours and take away the aches. Nearly every course has a spa - hot tub, cold tub, sauna and massage.

As we all know... golf is a puzzle without an answer.

I think people like players they can relate to. It seems as if people think they know me. I just think I'm an ordinary Joe who plays golf very, very well.

While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.

Prior to that I produced a couple of TV movies for CBS, but the truth of the matter is that I burned out for a couple of years. I didn't do anything for a while, apart from taking up golf, for which I got a four handicap.

Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.

I still play hockey every now and then, and I still golf. But my biggest exercise is walking my big dog in the park every day.

I'll watch golf while I work out. I'm your average golf fan.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Cyclists, I work with a number of cyclists. They are great athletes; they are great aerobic athletes. If you ask them to hit a baseball or golf ball, they can't do that.

There is nothing in this game of golf that can't be improved upon if you practice.

As long as I keep enjoying my golf, then hopefully I'll be able to play well.

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

Whenever I walk off the golf course, I thank God that I'm able to tell a joke. I thank God I'm good at something.

Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.

Golf is more fun than walking naked in a strange place, but not much.

I like golf, hiking, camping, boating and fishing.

When Lee and Jack win, it is good for golf. When I win, it is better.

I think dates considered super corny and cheesy - whether it's going bowling or miniature golf or something where you can be competitive and just have fun with each other - those always make the most memorable dates!

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.

It's great to be somewhat of a role model. I want to be a positive and good role model and lead by example and try to do the best I can. Playing good golf definitely draws attention, but I want to have a good attitude on the course and do the right things.

There are some good teachers out there, but the only one who is a genius at diagnosing my swing is my mom. She took up golf late, when she was 39, but in her younger days, she was an amazing athlete. She never read an instruction book or took lessons, but she has a remarkable eye for motion.

Golf is good, it means I get some fresh air and exercise, take my mind off work and see some of the landscape of the place I'm visiting.

A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course. A lot of guys can go out and hit a golf ball, but they have no idea how to manage what they do with the ball. I've won as many golf tournaments hitting the ball badly as I have hitting the ball well.

This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, thats something a professional golfer has to handle.

Golf is a game to me. Other players work extremely hard all year long. I work hard before Augusta. I know I get good results when I practice, but it also wears me out. It literally wore me out even when I was in my 20s.

I take golf trips with my brother or with friends. We usually go to Pebble or Bandon Dunes. One year we went to Hawaii.

Everybody can see that my swing is homegrown. That means everybody has a chance to do it.

I never taught my girls to play golf; they all played softball

Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.

Before, I was like 'Oh my God, I have to do this media, this media and this media,' but now I've learned these are stages you need to go through. If you play really good golf, you're going to get more media attention and more interest in you, and you'll get more confident handling it.

In golf, you have to stay patient and calm. On the race track you can let loose, but in golf you can't and you must be calm.

Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.

I certainly don't think adrenalin coursing through your veins, is going to help with the fine motor skills of golf.

We went around and looked and talked to a lot of foundations with those charities and decided upon the Childrens Hospital. They had a golf tournament at the time, but it was a small event that didnt raise a significant amount of money.

Golf is growing, and there are more good young players, but you don't see them going abroad. It's so expensive to travel.

There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.

Hopper's best friend, Dean Stockwell, who starred with him in 'Blue Velvet,' let me watch golf with him while parsing out memories of when he and Hopper went off the deep end in Mexico.

Golf is meaningless, but it means so much.

I'm glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.

I watch golf on television, although I don't golf - except for visits to the driving range in spurts.

My biggest hobby is playing golf, which I really enjoy. Now when I am lying in bed at night, unable to sleep, I find myself thinking about my golf swing. I'm also involved in the Tampa Bay chapter of First Tee.

If you've driven over to the gay section of Los Angeles, it's like a golf course... Real estate values go 'boom!'

Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.

I feel the happiest when I'm at the golf course. And I feel calm when I'm on the golf course. I think I'm just a much better person when I'm on the golf course.

I prefer to do cable TV because it allows you the time to do other things. I definitely have an eye on doing more work in features and playing different characters, but I am also a big fan of going on vacation and playing golf and going to the beach.

Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

Um, yeah 15-year-olds don't lead at an LPGA event all the time. But like I said, I'm very surprised. I've been playing really good golf and I'm confident with my game.

We know that golf is an ancient game with great history and tradition, but our golf is only 10 years old so don't judge us too harshly.

The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart between shots at PGA Tour events. Man, the next thing you know, they're going to have some guy carry his clubs around for him.

I think travel is probably the downside of playing professional golf, but you've got to do it.

Only bad golfers are lucky. They're the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky.

Pretty it's pretty good for me because I'm over here in the winters. It's really improved my golf game.

I receive huge support from Irish and British sports fans alike and it is greatly appreciated. Likewise I feel I have a great affinity with the American sports fans. I play most of my golf in the U.S. nowadays and I am incredibly proud to have won the U.S. Open and U.S. PGA Championship in the last two years.

I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.

There are some guys out here that can really play golf, but it has not been their focus for that long.

I know the joy of skating on a clear cold day. I know the joy of getting off a perfect drive in golf. I know the delight of a fine meal after a long walk. These are real and wholesome, but all of them put together can not approach the thrill of ridding yourself of fear!

I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore.

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.

The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.

I like going there for golf. America's one vast golf course these days.

Life for women in rural Scotland is not like anywhere else in the world. We all live very far apart, and you don't just ring your girlfriend up for a cup of coffee. There really is no sense of community, no pubs, no clubs. The golf clubs are male prerogatives, and the women are isolated and have to have their own resources.

People are going to paying attention to him whether they love him or hate him. So I think Tiger is a huge focus point on a stage that is as little as golf.

If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.

Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.

The older I get, the better I used to be.

If you can't laugh at yourself, then how can you laugh at anybody else? I think people see the human side of you when you do that.

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.

Exercise? I get it on the golf course. When I see my friends collapse, I run for the paramedics.

If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.

I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.

Golf is the only sport that a professional can enjoy playing with his friends.

I like to play in the low 70's. If it gets any hotter than that I'll stay in the bar!

My grandson Sam Saunders has been playing golf since he could hold a club and I spent a lot of time with him over the years. Like my father taught me, I showed him the fundamentals of the game and helped him make adjustments as he and his game matured over the years.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

I tend to do golf charity things because it's much safer and you don't get much chance of a broken arm or leg.

I have a project at HBO and one at the Family Channel coming that are being looked at. Aside from that I am not doing much more than playing golf and some skiing.

Why do we work so hard to feel so terrible?

I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.

The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.

The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.

Golf is played between the ears and if you are not 100 percent focused on what you are trying to do, then people will go past you no matter who you are.

These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes

You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later.

I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf.