Playing Golf Quotes:

I'll tell you what, I've been in some seriously bad places playing golf and it's just part of the game.

- Tiger Woods

source: Interview by Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. October 13, 2006.

topic: Golf, Games, Playing Golf

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

- Robert Wilson Lynd

topic: Sports, Golf, World, Inspirational Golf, Motivational Golf

Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything.

- Michael Bamberger

source: Michael Bamberger (2007). “This Golfing Life”, p.43, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

topic: Golf, Guitar, Tennis, Electric Guitar, Playing Golf

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

- Tiger Woods

topic: Business, Golf, Doing What You Love, Playing Golf, Golf Love

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

topic: Golf, Opponents, Would Be, Bunkers, Playing Golf

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

source: Chuck Hogan (1993). “Learning Golf: The How-To-Learn Book for Aspiring Golfers”, Sports Enhancement Assocs

topic: Fun, Golf, Play, Golf Ball, Playing Golf

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.

- Gary Player

source: "The Gigantic Book of Golf Quotations". Book edited by Jim Apfelbaum, 2007.

topic: Golf, Years, Games, Inspirational Golf, Playing Golf

Golf is a better game played downhill.

- Jack Nicklaus

topic: Golf, Games, Playing Golf, Golf Clubs, Golf Game

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

topic: Golf, Years, Play, Humorous Golf, Golf Ball

Golf is a difficult game, but it's a little easier if you trust your instincts. It's too hard a game to try to play like someone else.

- Nancy Lopez

source: Nancy Lopez (1989). “Nancy Lopez's the Complete Golfer”, McGraw-Hill/Contemporary

topic: Golf, Games, Play, Playing Golf

Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.

- Abba Eban

topic: Humility, Golf, Games, Playing Golf, Futility Of Life

I love to play golf, and that's my arena. And you can characterize it and describe it however you want, but I have a love and a passion for getting that ball in the hole and beating those guys.

- Tiger Woods

topic: Love, Passion, Golf, Playing Golf

I'd like to see the fairways more narrow. Then everybody would have to play from the rough, not just me.

- Seve Ballesteros

topic: Golf, Play, Rough, Playing Golf

The right way to play golf is to go up and hit the bloody thing.

- George Duncan

topic: Golf, Play, Way, Playing Golf

Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.

- Tiger Woods

topic: Sports, Children, Fun, Playing Golf

I'm a golfaholic, no question about that. Counseling wouldn't help me. They'd have to put me in prison, and then I'd talk the warden into building a hole or two and teach him how to play.

- Lee Trevino

topic: Golf, Play, Two, Counseling, Wardens

In order to win, you must play your best golf when you need it most, and play your sloppy stuff when you can afford it. I shall not attempt to explain how you achieve this happy timing.

- Bobby Jones

topic: Golf, Winning, Order, Playing Golf

The more you play it the less you know about it.

- Patty Berg

topic: Golf, Play, Playing Golf, Great Golfing

The moment the average golfer attempts to play from long grass or a bunker or from a difficult lie of any kind, he becomes a digger instead of a swinger.

- Bobby Jones

topic: Lying, Golf, Average, Long Grass, Playing Golf

I went to play golf and tried to shoot my age, but I shot my weight instead.

- Bob Hope

topic: Golf, Play, Age, Humorous Golf, Playing Golf

Golf is the only game I know of that actually becomes harder the longer you play it.

- Bobby Jones

topic: Golf, Games, Play, Playing Golf

Golf is the only sport that a professional can enjoy playing with his friends.

- Chi Chi Rodriguez

topic: Sports, Golf, Enjoy, Playing Golf, Golfing

As far as swing and techniques are concerned, I don't know diddly squat. When I'm playing well, I don't even take aim.

- Fred Couples

topic: Golf, Swings, Technique, Playing Golf, Golfing

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.

- Sylvester Stallone

topic: Sports, Golf, Earthquakes, Playing Golf, Polo

My best score ever was 103, but I've only been playing 15 years.

- Alex Karras

topic: Golf, Years, Score, Playing Golf

I'll always remember the day I broke ninety. I had a few beers in the clubhouse and was so excited I forgot to play the back nine.

- Bruce Lansky

source: Bruce Lansky (2011). “Golf, It's Just a Game: The Best Quotes & Cartoons About Golf”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

topic: Beer, Golf, Play, Playing Golf, Good Golf

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

- Rogers Hornsby

topic: Baseball, Golf, Mlb, Baseball Games, Inspirational Baseball

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

- Bertrand Russell

source: Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

topic: Funny, Family, Dad, Funny Family, Playing Golf

You don't know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two bucks in your pocket.

- Lee Trevino

topic: Golf, Play, Two, Playing Golf, Golf Clubs

It's nice to have the opportunity to play for so much money, but it's nicer to win it.

- Bear Bryant

topic: Playing Golf

You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.

- Bobby Jones

topic: Golf, Men, Might, Playing Golf, Golf Life

Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.

- P. G. Wodehouse

topic: Lying, Golf, Men, Golf Ball, Infallible

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

- Ben Hogan

topic: Inspirational, Friday, Sports, Inspirational Golf, Playing Golf

The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top.

- Pete Dye

topic: Funny, Golf, Play, Inspirational Golf, Playing Golf

Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.

- Harry Vardon

topic: Funny, Golf, Play, Inspirational Golf, Funny Retirement

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

source: Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

topic: Sports, Golf, Guitar, Humorous Golf, Inspirational Golf

Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies.

- Bobby Jones

source: "Bobby Jones said play the ball as it lies. Tiger Woods has done just that", www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

topic: Lying, Golf, Games, Golf Ball, Inspirational Golf

Golf is the only-est sport. You're completely alone with every conceivable opportunity to defeat yourself. Golf brings out your assets and liabilities as a person. The longer you play, the more certain you are that a man's performance is the outward manifestation of who, in his heart, he really thinks he is.

- Hale Irwin

topic: Sports, Heart, Golf, Playing Golf, Assets And Liabilities

There are two things you can do with your head down - play golf and pray.

- Lee Trevino

topic: Golf, Play, Two, Playing Golf, Funny Golfing

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

- Jim Bishop

topic: Funny, Retirement, Native American, Inspirational Golf, Motivational Golf

No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why golf is the greatest of games. You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.

- Bobby Jones

topic: Golf, Men, Games, Playing Golf, Good Golf

They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. It's more complicated than that.

- Gardner Dickinson

topic: Believe, Golf, Complicated, Humorous Golf, Inspirational Golf

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

- Joe E. Lewis

topic: Golf, Play, Lows, Humorous Golf, Playing Golf

Forget your opponents; always play against par.

- Sam Snead

topic: Golf, Play, Opponents, Motivational Golf, Playing Golf

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

- H. G. Wells

topic: Beauty, Golf, Men, Humorous Golf, Playing Golf

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course

- Bobby Jones

source: Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

topic: Golf, Games, Inches, Sports Mental Toughness, Motivational 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

topic: Funny, Hope, Inspirational Sports, Humorous Golf, Golf Ball

Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.

- Bobby Jones

topic: Sports, Golf, Space, Inspirational Golf, Playing Golf

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

- Ben Hogan

topic: Golf, Persistence, Games, Humorous Golf, Playing Golf

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

topic: Basketball, Sports, Golf, Playing Golf, Great Golf

No game designed to be played with the aid of personal servants by right-handed men who can't even bring along their dogs can be entirely good for the soul.

- Bruce McCall

topic: Dog, Golf, Men, Playing Golf, Good Golf