Quotes about Golf

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

What I'm talkin' about is a game.  A game that can't be won, only played.

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.

I suppose a fellow can worship on the golf course - but it's almost as unhandy as playing golf in church.

A good follow-through is just as important in management as it is in bowling, tennis, or golf. Follow-through is the bridge between good planning and good results

A war fitness conference some time ago declared that the highest form of recreation is to go to church. The word recreation should be written re-creation. More real rest can be gained from an hour and a quarter of worship under these circumstances than by eighteen holes of golf.

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

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

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.

Golf is too important to be taken seriously.

When Babe Didrickson Zaharias, often called the 'athletic phenomenon of all time,' won the British woman's gold tournament, people said of her what they had said many times before: "Oh, she's an automatic champion, a natural athlete." When Babe started golfing in earnest thirteen years ago she hit as many as 1,000 balls in one afternoon, playing until her hands were so sore they had to be taped.

As for me, tough duty though it may be, I continue to do my part for the commercial recreation industry. Fishing, boating, tennis, golf, running, hunting, and all of this. Horseshoes. It's tough duty. Somebody has to do it, and I'm going to keep on.

Years ago we discovered the exact point the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

That was a great game of golf, fellers.

Ours is a youth culture, and like a golf tournament, we honor only low scores.

As if we don't have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament.

Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.