Golf Quotes

I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, 'You can like Mozart and ice hockey...' - and then I used to say 'golf,' but Tiger took over golf! - 'and Picasso and still be as black as the ace of spades.'

Instead of playing with army men or whatever, I played golf, like for hours every day.

If I get a week off, I'll go to a hotel that has a golf course. I like to come downstairs and go right onto the course. I'll do that five days in a row.

The world is full of people who would like nothing better than to spend six hours on a golf course. I would rather be chopping shallots.

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

I think I've heard somebody say that I was a well-dressed golfer. I guess that has something to do with the fact that a lot of people who play golf don't dress very well.

No, I don't have any problems leaving disappointments behind. I've had lots of good days at golf and a few disappointments, so you never know what's around the corner.

A golf course should aspire to generate as much energy as it consumes - golf should be leading the way toward energy net zero.

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

I enjoy Augusta. I enjoy its challenges. There's no other golf course like this anywhere. Its greens and its challenges on and around the greens are just super, super tough. So the greens are fun to play in sort of a morbid way.

Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference.

Everyone I built a course for thinks they have the best golf course in the world and I'm very pleased and proud of that.

Golf is a game to me. Other players work extremely hard all year long. I work hard before Augusta. I know I get good results when I practice, but it also wears me out. It literally wore me out even when I was in my 20s.

Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different.

I hated golf when we first started, but a big part of the training process was falling in love with this sport, so I went on tour with the UCLA Team.

Golf can be tougher than tennis when things go wrong, because you can't explain things by saying that your opponent played better than you. It's a cruel sport in that way.

Golf is me.

If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be a caddy.

But I do have time to pencil in golf, and we've got four excellent courses.

I used to read every golf magazine front to back; I was addicted to Golf Channel, read Rotella, read every golf book.

I love horse racing, I play golf, and I love travelling.

Golf is played between the ears and if you are not 100 percent focused on what you are trying to do, then people will go past you no matter who you are.

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

They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?

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

Golf is a matter of confidence. If you think you cannot do it, there is no chance you will.

They call it golf because all the other four letter words were taken.

I've never really played golf. With the sax, I learned technique well enough so that it feels like part of my body, and I just express myself. That's where I want to get in golf.

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

There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.