Gary Player Quotes
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If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.
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If you think your hands are more important in your golf swing than your legs, try walking a hole on your hands.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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It's a strange game, ... as the Scottish people say.
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The harder you work, the luckier you get.
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As we all know... golf is a puzzle without an answer.
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Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.
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I've traveled more than any human being who's ever lived.
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You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.
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An old friend once told me, you don't go fill up your car with gas at night and then park it in the garage.
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I got so strong I felt like a giant.....When I stood on the tee with Arnold and Jack, I was tiny compared to them. But I never believed they were bigger than me. So the mind is so fascinating.
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Golf asks something of a man. It makes one loathe mediocrity. It seems to say, "If you are going to keep company with me, don't embarrass me.
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I'm using exactly the same clubs, other than No. 4. I was brainwashed into believing it would be abnormal with all the changes. But we're hitting the same club Jack Nicklaus did. I remember Jack hitting 5-iron on No. 11. The greens weren't as fast, but the fairways were lousy.
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The closer you can live to being a vegetarian the better.
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It was calling for a real good match.
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All they have to do is spend a little bit of money and change the mold (of the ball) and let the ball go back 30 yards. There are no such things as par-5s now really in professional golf, unless they move the tees back.
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We've obviously got to forget about that and now go on to the best of our ability.
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It's exactly the same. You wait until the tournament starts. You'll hear the cheers. It will be great.
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I thought when I get to 70, I would be sitting on the ranch and doing less, and I'm doing more. I would say, with all things equal, five more years.
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It's very long for me. I'm driving it into the face of every hill out there (and) had to hit a wood into every (par-4) hole.
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I've studied golf for almost 50 years now and know a hell of a lot about nothing.
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That putt Chris made, I take my hat off to him, ... What a day's golf.
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The player who expects a lesson to 'take' without subsequent practice just isn't being honest with himself or fair to his professional.
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The harder I practiced, the luckier I got.