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Quotes about Golf


If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

Bob Hope

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

Rogers Hornsby

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

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

Jack Lemmon

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.

Robert Lynd

There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.

Jack Nicklaus

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

Sam Snead

Go play golf. Go to the golf course. Hit the ball. Find the ball. Repeat until the ball is in the hole. Have fun. The end.

Chuck Hogan

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

John Updike

When Tiger was 6 months old, he would sit in our garage, watching me hit balls into a net. He had been assimilating his golf swing. When he got out of the high chair, he had a golf swing.

Earl Woods

I'm a golfer—not an athlete.

Lee Westwood

I play [golf] with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.

Ben Hogan

The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.

Hunter S. Thompson

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

Mark Twain

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

Woodrow Wilson

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

Tiger Woods

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

Hank Aaron

You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.

Charles Barkley

It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

Hank Aaron

I'm the best. I just haven't played yet [on his golf game].

Muhammad Ali

I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.

Tiger Woods

It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.

Bobby Jones

Golf is very much like a love affair, if you don't take it seriously, it's no fun, if you do, it breaks your heart. Don't break your heart, but flirt with the possibility.

Louise Suggs

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

I am the toughest golfer mentally.

Tiger Woods

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