Quotes and Sayings about Golf

I started watching golf for the first time yesterday. I'm really worried about myself. I was actually enjoying it.

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

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.

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

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

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

I'm going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money winner's list.

If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.

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

Green and black go well together, don't they?

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

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

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.

I'm addicted. I'm addicted to golf.

You really need to consider the message you're sending this boys by ending the lockout. It's the same message that we as a culture send to our professional athletes; and that is that they are above the law. If these boys cannot honor the simple rules of a basketball contract, how long do you think it will be before they're out there breaking the law? I played ball here at Richmond High 30 years ago. It was the same thing then; some of my teammates went to prison, some of them even ended up dead. If you vote to end the lockout, you won't have to terminate me; I'll quit.

Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling.

That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.

When you go running from 23:59 to 00:01, you worked out two days in a row. Doesn't sound bad, does it?

Sport is the best means of communication between people from different religions and countries.

What I really love about sports isn't winning, ya know? It's having to fight and struggle and give it all you got to reach the top.

When you're rowing a race and you get to the last 20 meters your entire body is telling you to stop. Your muscles are on fire. Your lungs are screaming at you. Everything inside you wants to quit, make the pain go away. But if you want to win, that's exactly when you dig deeper and you row harder.

People always ask me, "what is your secret?" I'll tell you what the secret is: Work your a-s off in the gym, 14 times a week.

You don't quit in sports. You retire. You don't get to quit. It's not an option.

If you say you plan to retire in two or three years, you've already retired.

When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.

Jogging is the worst. I know it keeps you healthy, but God, at what cost?

My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.

Winning is not always the barometer of getting better.

I never learned anything from a match that I won.

The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.

You can't teach passion. You can teach everything else.

I was so happy to do it again, and so happy to work with Hayden again, and I hope we get the chance to do it again.

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.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

A kiss is something you need both hands for.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.

I do it because I can't seem to live with myself if I do not. I don't know any other way to be. It isn't something you can explain; it is just something that you do; it is something that you are.

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

Basketball isn't just a sport. It is an art, one that must be mastered to succeed.

But there was a hockey game where they didn't even play hockey, they just threw the puck aside and started fighting.

For every $1 we could raise, they'll remove one pound of plastic from the ocean. We're trying to raise $30 million by the end of the year.

'You can go home now,' Tom told us.
'We'll meet next week. Then we can rob somebody and kill some people.'

Maybe not, maybe not. Cheer up, Becky, and let's go on trying.

The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them from vinegar by the label.