Golfing Quotes - Page 5

• I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Funny, Golf, Play

  10 Copy quote

• The woods are full of long drivers.

  Harvey Penick

  Golf, Long, Woods

  Harvey Penick, Davis Love III (2012). “Harvey Penick's Little Red Book: Lessons And Teachings From A Lifetime In Golf”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

  61 Copy quote

  Show source

• Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around.

  Rick Reilly

  School, Golf, Games

  45 Copy quote

• Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?

  Ben Hogan

  Funny, Sports, Athlete

  12 Copy quote

• All I've got against golf is it takes you so far from the clubhouse.

  Eric Linklater

  Golf, Golfers, Golf Life

  8 Copy quote

• Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.

  Samuel Johnson

  Golf, Games, Childhood

  7 Copy quote

• Golf is a game that needlessly prolongs the lives of some of our most useless citizens.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Hope, Golf

  48 Copy quote

• 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

  9 Copy quote

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

  George Archer

  Golf, Play, Funny Golf

  9 Copy quote

• One minute you're bleeding. The next minute you're hemorrhaging. The next minute you're painting the Mona Lisa.

  Mac O'Grady

  Golf, Bleeding, Next

  11 Copy quote

• Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.

  Grantland Rice

  Philosophy, Golf, Romance

  61 Copy quote

• My favorite shots are the practice swing and the conceded putt. The rest can never be mastered.

  George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

  Golf, Swings, Practice

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• After all these years, it's still embarrassing for me to play on the American golf tour. Like the time I asked my caddie for a sand wedge and he came back ten minutes later with a ham on rye.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Dirty, Golf, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  74 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't fear death, but I sure don't like those three-footers for par.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Golf, Three, Fear Of Death

  20 Copy quote

• I never pray to God to make a putt. I pray to God to help me react good if I miss a putt.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Golf, Missing, Helping

  8 Copy quote

• You can't call it a sport. You don't run, jump, you don't shoot, you don't pass. All you have to do is buy some clothes that don't match.

  Steve Sax

  Sports, Running, Golf

  7 Copy quote

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

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Games, Shops

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

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are no short hitters on the tour anymore - just long and unbelievably long.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Long

  19 Copy quote

• The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I shot the happiest 83 of my life.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Dirty, Golf, Gold

  42 Copy quote

• Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course.

  Lee Trevino

  Dirty, Golf, Gold

  15 Copy quote

• The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Golf, Bags, Woods

  8 Copy quote

• If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near him and audibly count his strokes. It would be justifiable homicide if he wound up his pitiable exhibition by applying his niblick to your head.

  Harry Vardon

  Golf, Would Be, Exhibitions

  40 Copy quote

• Art said he wanted to get more distance. I told him to hit it and run backward.

  Ken Venturi

  Running, Art, Distance

  7 Copy quote

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

  Amy Alcott

  Spiritual, Golf, Games

  7 Copy quote

• Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Golf, Years, Serious

  P. G. Wodehouse, D. R. Bensen (1999). “Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf”, p.201, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  11 Copy quote

  Show source