Golf Life Quotes - Page 4

They throw their clubs backwards, and that's wrong. You should always throw a club ahead of you so that you don't have to walk any extra distance to get it.

Tommy Bolt

Distance, Golf, Clubs

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A lot of guys who have have never choked, have never been in the position to do so.

Tom Watson

Golf, Guy, Position

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Isn't it fun to go out on the course and lie in the sun?

Bob Hope

Fun, Lying, Golf

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The harder you work, the luckier you become.

Carl Karcher

Wrestling, Golf, Bodybuilding

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They call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken.

Ray Floyd

Funny, Taken, Golf

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I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.

Arnold Palmer

Golf, Games, Strokes

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What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

Arnold Palmer

Inspirational Sports, Art, Athlete

Arnold Palmer (2016). “A Life Well Played: My Stories”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

Will Rogers

Funny, Sports, Hate

Quoted in Michael HobbsThe Golf Quotation Book (1992).

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

Sam Snead

Sports, Golf, Knives

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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

Sports, Golf, Iron

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You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.

Lee Trevino

Golf, Hook, Fades

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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

Business, Golf, Doing What You Love

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

William Wordsworth

Sports, Retirement, Golf

'The Prelude' (1850) bk. 4, l. 376

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The more I practice, the luckier I get.

Jerry Barber

Sports, Volleyball, Golf

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One of the most fascinating things about golf is how it reflects the cycle of life. No matter what you shoot - the next day you have to go back to the first tee and begin all over again and make yourself into something.

Peter Jacobsen

Golf, Cycle Of Life, Next Day

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Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's.

Grantland Rice

Golf, Giving, Opponents

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A hole in one is amazing when you think of the different universes this white mass of molecules has to pass through on its way to the hole.

Mac O'Grady

Golf, Thinking, Different Universes

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Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists.

Heywood Hale Broun

Golf, Games, Attention

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Forget your opponents; always play against par.

Sam Snead

Golf, Play, Focus

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One thing about golf is you don't know why you play bad and why you play good.

George Archer

Golf, Play, Funny Golf

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Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What are we supposed to take up when we quit?

George Archer

Basketball, Baseball, Football

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Golf isn't like other sports where you can take a player out if he's having a bad day. You have to play the whole game.

Phil Blackmar

Sports, Bad Day, Golf

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Golf is a game in which you yell "for," shoot six, and write down five.

Paul Harvey

Writing, Golf, Games

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May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.

Ben Hogan

Lying, Golf, Water

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This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.

Ben Hogan

Golf, Winning, Games

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