Golf Quotes

People always say golfers don't smile. But there is so much psychology in golf so we have to be a bit robotic.

When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him.

I wore that same shirt yesterday playing golf. There goes the Nike account.

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.

I tell people retirement isn't what you think. You are going to sit around and waste your life, you can only golf so much. To stay young, you have to stay in the mix.

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

I had very low expectations. Honestly, I think I had 11 rounds of golf the entire year in before this tournament, and I had hit balls maybe four or five times.

I do plan to return to golf one day, I just don't know when that day will be.

To be a top-class athlete, you have to train hard, you have to eat right, you have to get enough rest. I feel the way golf is going nowadays, you have to treat yourself as an athlete.

If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.

On stage, I'm this figure, this actor, who does things that people aren't used to seeing and I relish in that reaction. In real life, though, I play golf, I shop and I walk around with no makeup on and my hair in a ponytail. I may not be the typical middle-aged Joe, but I'm closer to normal than you think.

I'm still no good at ball-and-stick games. If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke.

Nothing dissects a man in public quite like golf.

My first calendar was a combination of photos taken from different shoots including golf and casual.

Tiger is the greatest thing that's happened to the tour in a long time. He has brought incredible attention to golf at a time of year when football and the World Series always take precedence. Everything I've heard about him seems to be true.

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.

The Olympics will be great for the growth of golf on a global scale, but my focus right now is on being the best player I can be, trying to win Major Championships and contributing to what will hopefully be a victorious European side at the forthcoming Ryder Cup Matches against the USA.

Archery is not a sport for everyone. The equipment costs a lot, and it is not easy for everyone to find a place to play. It is perhaps similar to golf, but of course there are more golf courses than archery fields.

This golf course, you miss a shot a little bit off-line, it's going to bite you.

Well my dad was a pretty good player at one stage and my two older brothers played golf as well. So there were always golf clubs flying around the house.

If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.

I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

Invariably something happens at a U.S. Open where the golf course gets out of control one day, they have one pin that's out of control. It always seems to happen. But they've gotten better about the height of the rough.

As we all know... golf is a puzzle without an answer.

No matter what kind of day I've had at school, I always look forward to golf.

I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

I've spent more time playing golf than anything else the last 18 years. Just wanted to be an 80s-shooter. Got there, too.

Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?