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Old 03-28-2011, 04:29 AM   #1
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What are your favorite quotes about golf?

“Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.” Arnold Palmer
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Old 03-28-2011, 04:34 AM   #2
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Get in the hole!

Here is a whole bunch of them...


Golf is a game in which you yell "fore"... shoot six... and write down five.
~ Paul Harvey



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



I have a tip that can take five strokes off anyone's golf game. It is called an eraser.
~ Arnold Palmer



The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing.
~ Phyllis Diller



Golf is a game where the ball always lies poorly and the player always lies well.
~ Anonymous



I had a wonderful experience on the golf course today. I had a hole in nothing. Missed the ball and sank the divot.
~ Don Adams



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



I tried real hard to play golf, and I was so bad at it they would have to check me for ticks at the end of the round because I'd spent about half the day in the woods.
~ Jeff Foxworthy



The woods are full of long drivers.
~ Harvey Penick



When the ducks are walking, you know it is too windy to be playing golf.
~ Dave Stockton



If you really want to get better at golf, go back and take it up at a much earlier age.
~ Thomas Mulligan



Someone once told me that there is more to life than golf. I think it was my ex-wife.
~ Bruce Lansky



Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.
~ Sam Snead



The most important shot in golf is the next one.
~ Ben Hogan



The best advice I can give for playing a ball out of water is - don't.
~ Tony Lema



That putt had more breaks than a government job.
~ Brian Weis



I can airmail the golf ball, but sometimes I don't put the right address on it.
~ Jim Dent



Never break your putter and your driver in the same round or you're dead.
~ Tommy Bolt



The older I get, the better I used to be.
~ Lee Trevino



Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt.
~ Sam Snead



Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.
~ Arnold Palmer



Golf's three ugliest words: still your shot.
~ Dave Marr



A routine is not a routine if you have to think about it.
~ Davis Love Jr.



Through the ball we are all the same. We just have different ways of getting it there.
~ Charles Coody



The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.
~ John Updike



The older you get the stronger the wind gets... and it's always in your face.
~ Jack Nicklaus



Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
~ Ben Hogan



Never bet with anyone you meet on the first tee who has a deep suntan, a 1-iron in his bag, and squinty eyes.
~ Dave Marr



This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.
~ Ben Hogan



A good one iron shot is about as easy to come by as an understanding wife.
~ Dan Jenkins



I never learned anything from a match that I won.
~ Bobby Jones



Golf is a better game played downhill.
~ Jack Nicklaus



The more you play it the less you know about it.
~ Patty Berg



I went to play golf and tried to shoot my age, but I shot my weight instead.
~ Bob Hope



I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance my left ear is from my right.
~ Ben Crenshaw



One thing about golf is you don't know why you play bad and why you play good.
~ George Archer



It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it.
~ Jack Nicklaus



Concentrate on hitting the green. The cup will come to you.
~ Cary Middlecoff



Missing a short putt does not mean you have to hit your next drive out of bounds.
~ Henry Cotton



The proper score for a businessman golfer is 90. If he is better than that he is neglecting his business. If he's worse, he's neglecting his golf.
~ St Andrews Rotary Club Member



Baseball reveals character; golf exposes it.
~ Ernie Banks



Nothing goes down slower than a golf handicap.
~ Bobby Nichols



Real golfers, no matter what the provocation, never strike a caddie with the driver. The sand wedge is far more effective.
~ Huxtable Pippey



The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top.
~ Pete Dye



My golf is improving. Yesterday I hit the ball in one!
~ Jane Swan



You know you're on the Senior Tour when your back goes out more than you do.
~ Bob Bruce



There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling, and golf. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with golf.
~ Andrew Perry



Golf is just a game - and an idiotic game most of the time.
~ Mark Calcavecchia



Talking to a golf ball won't do you any good, unless you do it while your opponent is teeing off.
~ Bruce Lansky



A golfer has to train his swing on the practice tee, then trust it on the course.
~ Dr Bob Rotella

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



When your shot has to carry over a water hazard, you can either hit one more club or two more balls.
~ Henry Beard



Half of golf is fun; the other half is putting.
~ Peter Dobereiner



Golf is the only game I know of that actually becomes harder the longer you play it.
~ Bobby Jones



Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies.
~ Bobby Jones



Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.
~ Grantland Rice



I was lying ten and had a thirty-five foot putt. I whispered over my shoulder: "How does this one break?" And my caddie said, "Who cares?"
~ Jack Lemmon



It's so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying "Shhh" and not moving a muscle. Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
~ Al McGuire



If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.
~ Dean Martin



I may be the only golfer never to have broken a single putter, if you don't count the one I twisted into a loop and threw into a bush.
~ Thomas Boswell



I enjoy the oohs! and aahs! from the gallery when I hit my drives. But I'm getting pretty tired of the awws! and uhhs! when I miss the putt.
~ John Daly



Go ahead and putt, you are not interrupting my conversation.
~ Robert E. Zorn



Do I have to know rules and all that crap? Then forget it. (when asked whether he'd like to join the Royal and Ancient Golf Club, after winning the '95 British Open at St. Andrews)
~ John Daly



There are two basic rules which should never be broken. Be subtle. And don't, for God's sake, try to do business with anyone who's having a bad game.
~ William Davis



The only thing you should force in a golf swing is the club back in the bag.
~ Byron Nelson



As far as swing and techniques are concerned, I don't know diddly squat. When I'm playing well, I don't even take aim.
~ Fred Couples



No one ever swung too slowly.
~ Bobby Jones



The golf swing is like sex: you can't be thinking of the mechanics of the act while you're doing it.
~ Dave Hill



If you think your hands are more important in your golf swing than your legs, try walking a hole on your hands.
~ Gary Player



My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch.
~ Lee Trevino



Forget the last shot. It takes so long to accept that you can't always replicate your swing. The only thing you can control is your attitude toward the next shot.
~ Mark McCumber



Many a golfer prefers a golf cart to a caddy because the cart cannot count, criticize or laugh.
~ Anonymous



When I die, bury me on the golf course so my husband will visit.
~ Anonymous



I don't exaggerate - I just remember big.
~ Chi Chi Rodriguez



I don't fear death, but I sure don't like those three-footers for par.
~ Chi Chi Rodriguez



The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.
~ Arnold Palmer



It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.
~ Arnold Palmer



I never rooted against an opponent, but I never rooted for him either.
~ Arnold Palmer



Grip it and rip it. It works for John Daly. It never worked for me. All I did was wear out golf gloves.
~ Chuck Stark



Practice puts brains in your muscles.
~ Sam Snead



The ball retriever is not long enough to get my putter out of the tree.
~ Brian Weis



Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything.
~ Michael Bamberger



Swing hard in case you hit it.
~ Dan Marino



My favorite shots are the practice swing and the conceded putt. The rest can never be mastered.
~ Lord Robertson



When it's breezy, hit it easy.
~ Davis Love, Jr.



These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
~ Sam Snead



A hungry dog hunts best.
~ Lee Trevino



You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.
~ Lee Trevino



I was three over. One over a house, one over a patio, and one over a swimming pool.
~ George Brett



Actually, the only time I ever took out a one-iron was to kill a tarantula. And I took a 7 to do that.
~ Jim Murray



The only sure rule in golf is - he who has the fastest cart never has to play the bad lie.
~ Mickey Mantle



Sex and golf are the two things you can enjoy even if you're not good at them.
~ Kevin Costner



You can't go into a shop and buy a good game of golf.
~ Sam Snead



If some players took a fork to their mouths the way they take the club back, they'd starve to death.ヤ
~ Sam Snead



There are no short hitters on the tour anymore, just long and unbelievably long.
~ Sam Snead



One hundred years of experience had demonstrated that the game is temporary insanity practiced in a pasture.
~ Dave Kindred


To play golf you need goofy pants and a fat @ss.
~ Happy Gilmore



Real pressure in golf is playing for $10 when you've only got $5 in your pocket.
~ Lee Trevino



Golf is the hardest game in the world. There is no way you can ever get it. Just when you think you do, the game jumps up and puts you in your place.
~ Ben Crenshaw

Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.
~ Marc Anthony



(Yes, I copied and pasted all of these)
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Old 03-28-2011, 04:44 AM   #3
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"Golf is a good walk spoiled." - Mark Twain

“Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.” - A. A. Milne

“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.” - Winston Churchhill
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Old 03-28-2011, 04:48 AM   #4
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Here are two of my favorites.

"Dude, do you have a calculator watch or something, because its going to take me a long time to add up all these strokes."

JB says to Thainer after 18th hole.


"Hey TC, I think its time we see the rope hook me jesus".
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Old 03-28-2011, 04:50 AM   #5
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I love the RHMJ!!! It always works too.
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Old 03-28-2011, 04:53 AM   #6
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Here are two of my favorites.

"Dude, do you have a calculator watch or something, because its going to take me a long time to add up all these strokes."

JB says to Thainer after 18th hole.



"Hey TC, I think its time we see the rope hook me jesus".
Heh that's a lot of quotes!
Yikes, poor thainer, was that your first round out of winter hibernation? I feel you are going to hear about that awhile. Happens to the best of us.

And what is a rope hook me jesus? That ur shot around a tree? I forget.
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Old 03-28-2011, 04:55 AM   #7
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My God my swing feels like an unfolded lawn chair !
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Old 03-28-2011, 05:00 AM   #8
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"Golf is a good walk spoiled." - Mark Twain

“Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.” - A. A. Milne

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.” - Winston Churchhill
You stole mine!!!

WC was quite possibly the wittiest man to ever live.
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Old 03-28-2011, 05:17 AM   #9
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"'It's a game that can't be won, only played.'
And so I play.
I play on.
I play for the moments yet to come...
... looking for my place in the field."

- the Legend of Bagger Vance
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Old 03-28-2011, 05:20 AM   #10
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You stole mine!!!

WC was quite possibly the wittiest man to ever live.
Yep, he and MT are a hard combo to beat. Naturally I am a WC fan, just read my sig.
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Old 03-28-2011, 05:22 AM   #11
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Yep, he and MT are a hard combo to beat. Naturally I am a WC fan, just read my sig.
"Winston, you're drunk!"

"Yes, and you are ugly, but in the morning, I'll be sober."
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Old 03-28-2011, 05:43 AM   #12
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"He's BAAACCCKKKK!" All the Tiger lovers.

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Old 03-28-2011, 05:45 AM   #13
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"He's BAAACCCKKKK!" All the Tiger lovers.

Kevin
He is. He made an eagle yesterday, I saw it.
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Old 03-28-2011, 05:48 AM   #14
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"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." Lee Trevino
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Old 03-28-2011, 05:51 AM   #15
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"Serious golfers walk. And play blades." Kmac.

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Old 03-28-2011, 05:59 AM   #16
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What about

"Duh, winning." Charlie Sheen
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Old 06-09-2011, 07:49 AM   #17
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A "gimme" can best be defined as an agreement between two golfers, neither of whom can putt very well. ~Author Unknown
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Old 07-08-2011, 08:50 AM   #18
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"Why can't people leave poor little Tiger alone?" - - - by many.
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Old 07-08-2011, 09:29 AM   #19
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See my tag line:
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