Golf Quotes

"And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, then you're not going to believe in the golf story, you're not going to believe in the rest of the film. That's the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie's crap"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?"

Casey Stengel, Athlete

"I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right"

Brad Pitt, Actor

"You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say that I'd rather have won the U.S. Open Golf Tournament"

Sean Connery, Actor

"I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations - that's why we got married really quickly"

Sean Connery, Actor

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

Red Skelton, Comedian

"Golf is a better game played downhill"

Jack Nicklaus, Athlete

"He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen"

Jack Nicklaus, Athlete

"You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course"

Jello Biafra, Musician

"I like trying to win. That's what golf is all about"

Jack Nicklaus, Athlete

"There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid"

Jack Nicklaus, Athlete

"There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks"

Jack Nicklaus, Athlete

"Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best"

Jack Nicklaus, Athlete

"It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus"

Jack Nicklaus, Athlete

"Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness"

William Wordsworth, Poet

"I'm actually a very quiet person off the golf course. I talk 150 miles per hour when I'm at the course, but when in private I very seldom ever open my mouth"

Lee Trevino, Athlete

"Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf"

Ben Hogan, Athlete

"I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games"

Ben Hogan, Athlete

"I adore the game of golf. I won't ever retire"

Lee Trevino, Athlete

"Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake"

Sylvester Stallone, Actor

"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"

Ben Hogan, Athlete

"I wore that same shirt yesterday playing golf. There goes the Nike account"

Leslie Nielsen, Actor

"Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor"

Martin Sheen, Actor

"I'm not interested at all in playing more than 12, 15 tournaments a year on an annual basis because like all the old guys out here on this Tour, we've played golf for nearly 30 years of our lives"

Greg Norman, Athlete

"Obviously it's my second senior event, and I'm tired obviously coming back from the British Open, from surgery, which was priority No. 1, did that successfully, and each week since the British Open I've felt in pretty good control of my golf game"

Greg Norman, Athlete

"I've really got no complaints about the way I played, just extremely frustrating with the putter and I'm sure there's a lot of other players saying the same thing except the guy who's going to win the golf tournament"

Greg Norman, Athlete

"I never played much golf as a kid. I caddied quite a bit but never got serious into golf until about age 15"

Lee Trevino, Athlete

"If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman"

Shaquille O'Neal, Athlete

"I've played golf with three U.S presidents"

Lee Trevino, Athlete

"If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron"

Lee Trevino, Athlete

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

Ben Hogan, Athlete

"Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf"

Harper Lee, Novelist

"Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots"

Ben Hogan, Athlete

"A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible"

Jean Giraudoux, Dramatist

"This thing is for the game of golf, yeah, but trust me, the Europeans don't have that mentality"

Payne Stewart, Athlete

"But in the end it's still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you've missed the point"

Payne Stewart, Athlete

"Anybody who plays golf will tell you that you play against yourself"

Martin Sheen, Actor

"The game of golf doesn't come rushing back to you. Last week I made a couple of fundamental mistakes that I probably wouldn't have made in the heat of the battle back when I was in my heyday, and those things have got to come back"

Greg Norman, Athlete

"That's why we have practice rounds. We make the adjustments as we go around, try and find out how to play the golf course the best we can. No big deal, it's nothing to me, it's the same for me as it is to everybody and we're all trying to understand it"

Greg Norman, Athlete

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