Golf Quotes - Page 9

• The beauty of golf, you're in charge out here.

  Mike Weir

  Beauty, Golf Clubs

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• In golf, you keep your head down and follow through. In the vice presidency, you keep your head up and follow through. It's a big difference.

  Dan Quayle

  Differences, Vices, Politics

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• If you're stupid enough to whiff, you should be smart enough to forget it.

  Arnold Palmer

  Smart, Stupid, Forget

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• Golf tips are like aspirin. One may do you good, but if you swallow the whole bottle you will be lucky to survive.

  Harvey Penick

  Lucky, Bottles, Aspirin

  Bud Shrake, Harvey Penick (2011). “The Wisdom of Harvey Penick”, p.319, Simon and Schuster

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• My psychiatrist prescribed a game of golf as an antidote to the feelings of euphoria I experience from time to time.

  Bruce Lansky

  Games, Feelings, Euphoria

  Bruce Lansky (2011). “Golf, It's Just a Game: The Best Quotes & Cartoons About Golf”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you.

  Hal Linden

  Play, Violin, Painful

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• Never admit that your back goes out more than you do

  Joan Rivers

  Funny Golf, Great Golf, Golfing

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• The right way to play golf is to go up and hit the bloody thing.

  George Duncan

  Play, Way, Bloody

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• What a shame to waste those great shots on the practice tee.

  Walter Hagen

  Practice, Waste, Shame

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• Golf is more exacting than racing, cards, speculation, or matrimony. In almost all other games you pit yourself against a mortal foe; in golf it is yourself against the world: no human being stays your progress as you drive your ball over the face of the globe.

  Arnold Haultain

  Games, Racing, Progress

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• To be truthful, I think golfers are overpaid. It's unreal, and I have trouble dealing with the guilt sometimes.

  Colin Montgomerie

  Thinking, Guilt, Truthful

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

  Buddy Hackett

  Fun, Strange Places, Naked

  Buddy Hackett (1968). “The Truth about Golf: And Other Lies”

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• The older you get, the easier it is to shoot your age.

  Jerry Barber

  Age, Easier

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• I've said a thousand times, you can't go into a shop and buy a good golf game.

  Sam Snead

  Games, Shops, Golfing

  "The lessons I've learned: better golf the Sam Snead way".

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• Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than nineteen years of dealing with him across the desk.

  Grantland Rice

  Years, Play, Nineteen

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• Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.

  John Updike

  Men, Wife, Faithful

  John Updike (2011). “Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf”, p.126, Random House

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• A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the idle and idiot well-to-do.

  Osbert Sitwell

  Purpose, Towns, Idiot

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• Here Eddie, hold the flag while I putt out.

  Walter Hagen

  Flags

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• You don't hit anything on the backswing, so why rush it?

  Doug Ford, Jr.

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• Golf without Jones would be like France without Paris: leaderless, lightless and lonely.

  Herbert Wind

  Lonely, Paris, Would Be

  Herbert Warren Wind (2016). “The Story of American Golf: Its Champions and Championships, 1888–1975”, p.190, Open Road Media

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• Vice President Spiro Agnew can not cheat on his score : because all you have to do is look back down the fairway and count the wounded.

  Bob Hope

  President, Vices, Looks

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• Golf is a game in which attitude of mind counts for incomparably more than mightiness of muscle.

  Arnold Haultain

  Attitude, Games, Mind

  Arnold Haultain (1912). “The Mystery of Golf”

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• Golf is a funny game. It's done much for health, and at the same time has ruined people by robbing them of their peace of mind. Look at me, I'm the healthiest idiot in the world.

  Bob Hope

  Hope, Games, People

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• A hungry dog hunts best.

  Lee Trevino

  Dog, Hungry, Hunts

  "Serby’s Sunday Q & A with… Damontre Moore". Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. August 11, 2013.

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• A rough should have high grass. When you go bowling they don't give you anything for landing in the gutter, do they?

  Lee Trevino

  Should Have, Giving, Gutters

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