Golf Quotes

"I do plan to return to golf one day, I just don't know when that day will be"

"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"

Tiger Woods, Athlete

"I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course"

Tiger Woods, Athlete

"Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter"

Tiger Woods, Athlete

"For instance, he says I let him play golf, and he says, he lets me be miserable in my job. Now - that doesn't quite sound right, does it? But nonetheless, I think for the first time in my life, I'm not going to be miserable in my life when I come and work at CNN"

Connie Chung, Journalist

"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

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

Chi Chi Rodriguez, Athlete

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

Chi Chi Rodriguez, 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

"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

"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

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

Amy Alcott, 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

"I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait"

Cameron Diaz, Actress

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

Sylvester Stallone, Actor

"Golf is a better game played downhill"

Jack Nicklaus, Athlete

"Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different"

John McCarthy, Politician

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

Jack Nicklaus, Athlete

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

Willie Nelson, 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

"I tried real hard to play golf, and I was so bad at it they would have to check me for ticks at the end of the round because I'd spent about half the day in the woods"

Jeff Foxworthy, Comedian

"Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort"

Stephen Leacock, Economist

"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

"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'm gonna be the best dad that ever lived. I'll have a ranch with a race car track and a golf course"

Jeremy London, Actor

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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