Quotes

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

Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.
-Tiger Woods

A great deal of unnecessarily bad golf is played in this world.
-Harry Vardon

That putt had more breaks than a government job.
-Brian Weis

Anybody who plays golf will tell you that you play against yourself.
-Martin Sheen

Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best
-Jack Nicklaus

Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.
-Tiger Woods

Golf is a game not just of manners but of morals.
-Art Spander

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
-Jack Lemmon

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
-G.K. Chesterton

There's no game like golf: you go out with three friends, play eighteen holes, and return with three enemies
-Anonymous Author

Eighteen holes of match or medal play will teach you more about your foe than will 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.
-Grantland Rice

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place this world is when one is playing golf.
-Robert Lynd

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.
-Arnold Palmer

Golf is like an 18-year-old girl with big boobs. You know it's wrong but you can't keep away from her.
-Val Doonican

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.
-Billy Graham

If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is.
-Horace G. Hutchinson

They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. Golf is more complicated than that.
-Gardner Dickinson

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course - the distance between your ears.
-Bobby Jones

All I want to do is do my shows and play golf.
-Mickey Gilley

Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.
-Anonymous Author

Golf is like a love affair. If you don't take it seriously, it's no fun; if you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart.
-Arthur Daley

A great deal of unnecessarily bad golf is played in this world.
-Harry Vardon

The only sure rule in golf is ? he who has the fastest cart never has to play the bad lie.
-Mickey Mantle

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

Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.
-P.J. O'Rourke

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
-A.A. Milne

A golf course is nothing but a pool room moved outdoors.
-Frank Butler

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

I have a tip that can take five strokes off anyone's golf game: it's called an eraser.
-Arnold Palmer

As we all know... golf is a puzzle without an answer.
-Gary Player

Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic.
-Anonymous Author

The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.
-John Updike

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.
-Dave Barry