Golf Quotes

"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

"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

"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

"So my game is solid. So that obviously makes me feel confident, that like anybody else in this field, you name them, I feel like I've got the ability to win the golf tournament just as much as they have, and that's the way I'm going to take it"

Greg Norman, Athlete

"I don't see myself playing or adjusting my schedule for senior tournament golf"

Greg Norman, Athlete

"Being away for the weekends, and me being the international player that I have been for those 30 years, I've spent a lot more time flying around the world, playing different golf tournaments around the world"

Greg Norman, Athlete

"I mean, I can actually say goodbye to the game of golf, never hit another golf shot the rest of my life and I'd be happy because I can get back in life without any rotation"

Greg Norman, Athlete

"Invariably something happens at a U.S. Open where the golf course gets out of control one day, they have one pin that's out of control. It always seems to happen. But they've gotten better about the height of the rough"

Payne Stewart, Athlete

"My doctor asked me how many golf balls I had hit in my career. I'm lying there in bed calculating somewhere between four and five million golf balls I had hit to do that on my body"

Greg Norman, Athlete

"I run like an electric golf cart. Now I look at eating as a way to feed my body and keep me younger. It's not about starving your body, but treating your body like a Ferrari. You don't put in the crappiest gas you can find. You use supreme. In the long term, you'll run clean"

Carol Alt, Model

"Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens"

Andy Rooney, Journalist

"Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad"

A. A. Milne, Author

"Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five"

John Updike, Novelist

"When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a ball game on the television"

Mackenzie Astin, Actor

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

Sam Snead, Athlete

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

Sam Snead, Athlete

"I'm still no good at ball-and-stick games. If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke"

Neil Peart, Musician

"Let the machine take care of the machines, and I'll go spend more time with my family, or golf"

Mark Goddard, Actor

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

Gary Player, Athlete

"Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play"

Gary Player, Athlete

"Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?"

Al Boliska, Writer

"To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment"

Sam Snead, Athlete

"A golf course is nothing but a pool room moved outdoors"

Frank Butler

"Golf is played with the arms"

Sam Snead, Athlete

"Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over"

Amy Alcott, Athlete

"All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?"

Willie Nelson, Musician

"I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators"

Gerald R. Ford, President

"The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself"

Gerald R. Ford, President

"I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can"

Bo Jackson, Athlete

"I'm a very competitive person, but not when it comes to something like golf. To me, that's more relaxing and a way to get out and enjoy nature"

Kevin Nealon, Actor

"Golf is a thinking man's game. You can have all the shots in the bag, but if you don't know what to do with them, you've got troubles"

Chi Chi Rodriguez, Athlete

"You go to work, tape five shows in one day and then go home and play golf for the rest of the week and then start the week all over. I thought if something like that came along, I'd love to do that"

Wink Martindale, Entertainer

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