Motivational Quotes

Golf

If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.

- Gallico, Paul

Best Quotes about Golf

Golf is the pursuit of the infinite.

Murray, Jim

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

H. L. Mencken

I throw a ball and get paid for it. Others do it by throwing the bull.

Dean, Jerome

Drive for show, but putt for dough.

Locke, Bobby

When I joined the Tour I studied the best players to see what they did that I didn't do. I came to the conclusion that the successful players had the Three Cs: Confidence, Composure, Concentration.

Toski, Bob

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

Aaron, Hank

A day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

Wordsworth, William

Golf isn't a game, it's a choice that one makes with one's life.

Charles Rosin

There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand.

Charles Rosin

10.

Golf is a fine relief from the tensions of office, but we are a little tired of holding the bag.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

11.

Life is a game but golf is serious.

12.

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

Lemmon, Jack

13.

Aggressive play is a vital asset of the world's greatest golfers. However, it's even more important to the average player. Attack this game in a bold, confident, and determined way, and you'll make a giant leap toward realizing your full potential as a player.

Norman, Greg

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Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?

Boliska, Al

15.

A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.

Joel, Billy

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Although Golf was originally restricted to wealthy Protestants, today its open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

Barry, Dave

17.

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

Bob Hope

18.

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.

Churchill, Winston

19.

In golf as in life it is the follow through that makes the difference.

20.

Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behavior not otherwise excusable.

Herbert, A. P.

21.

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

Hope, Bob

22.

Anyone who likes golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.

Rooney, Andy

23.

The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.

Lopez, Nancy

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

Dave Barry

25.

If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.

Gallico, Paul

26.

Magellan went around the world in 1521, which is not too many strokes when you consider the distance.

Laurie Jr., Joe

27.

I used to get out there and have a thousand swing thoughts. Now I try not to have any.

Love, Davis III

28.

All is fair in love and golf.

Proverb, American

29.

I go into the locker room and find a corner and just sit there. I try to achieve a peaceful state of nothingness that will carry over onto the golf course. If I can get that feeling of quiet and obliviousness within myself, I feel I can't lose.

Blalock, Jane