Golf Quotes
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Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
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A good golf course is like good music or good anything else; it is not necessarily a course which appeals the first time one plays over it, but one which grows on the player the more frequently he visits it.
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Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.
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Golf is not about the quality of your good shots, it is about the quality of your bad shots.
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When I was a kid, everybody that played golf was an old man. Until Tiger showed up, they weren't in very good shape.
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The scores were going so low all week. You just have to keep your foot to the floor on this golf course. Fortunately, I made a lot of good putts coming into the house.
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They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. It's more complicated than that.
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I've heard people say my swing's not perfect, and I know that. But golf's a natural sport, very sensitive. It's played a lot by feel. I don't care if my swing is too flat. If it works, I don't have to change it.
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Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.
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There would be nothing to get me to run for president. I don't even understand how anyone would want that job at all. Although I would be able to play golf which I don't seem to have time now.
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I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.
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Dogbert: Scientists have discovered the gene that makes some people love golf. Dilbert: How can they tell it's the golf gene? Dogbert: It's plaid and it lies.
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On the value of blind shots to golf course design.
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All seasoned players know, or at least have felt, that when you are playing your best, you are much the same as in a state of meditation. You are free of tension and chatter. You are concentrating on one thing. It is the ideal condition for good golf.
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I have always wanted to live where one could practice golf shots in one's pajamas before breakfast.
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Now we know everything about golf equipment. A player doesn't have to know diddly about golf clubs, because we know what a golf club can do and how it can fit to you. I hate to harp on my era because people don't like that, but 30 years back was so different. I didn't have maxed-out clubs. The clubs now are amazing.
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I try to deign golf courses that are individual in character and individual in their own standing.
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I have always had a drive that pushed me to try for perfection, and golf is a game in which perfection stays just out of reach.
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The head has no purpose in the golf swing. It simply goes where the body takes it
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Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with one ounce more brain than a cuckoo clock. I wish to goodness I knew the man who invented this infernal game. I'd strangle him. But I suppose he's been dead for ages. Still, I could go and jump on his grave.
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I have musician friends who play too much golf, and they're not as good at music anymore.
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I'm swimming every day and I'm even trying to get the golf swing working again - but that might take a little bit longer.
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I'm pretty certain that I'm the only son of a billionaire who can drive a D10 Caterpillar better than I can drive a golf cart.
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Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.
