Top 1200 Playing Golf Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

I have a couple [of grandsons] that are in college playing lacrosse. It's great and it's fun. But they all also play golf a little bit.

I do not look back at what might have been. If I did that, playing golf would drive me crazy.

I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf.

You can always spot the employee playing golf with his boss. He's the fellow who makes a hole in one and says, "oops!"

For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.

The only really unplayable lie I can think of is when you're supposed to be playing golf and come home with lipstick on your collar.

I have been an avid reader of 'Golf Digest' ever since I started playing this great game.

Tiger had the advantage of high school, college, and a father who knew golf. I was self-taught. Blacks really won't play golf in great numbers until some of these basketball and football stars buy some golf courses where blacks can play.

I feel the happiest when I'm at the golf course. And I feel calm when I'm on the golf course. I think I'm just a much better person when I'm on the golf course.

Playing golf is like going to a strip joint. After 18 holes you are tired and most of your balls are missing.

I just enjoy playing in wind, grew up in it, and it makes the golf a bit more fun.

It’s up to the captain. I certainly feel my golf is worthy of playing in the Ryder Cup. But I’m not sure I’m on the radar screen of Paul McGinley.

Women in pro-ams are always telling me about all the business deals they've struck on the golf course playing with their male work colleagues.

Man, I'm in the World Golf Hall of Fame. Don't forget that, now. I'm in the World Golf Hall of Fame with all the players. That little old golf I played was all right, wasn't it?

Cooking is physical; it's easier to learn than playing golf. You chop food, you pan fry it - what else is there to it?

First time I met Jack [Nicholas ] I had heard about his golf and prowess - I was playing in the Ohio amateur.

I don't play golf for money. I play golf to execute that shot, the beautiful shot that everybody adores. That's why I think we all play golf.

I love the Dunhill Links and I absolutely love playing golf in Scotland.

Golf is a game of integrity. And golf is a game of forgiveness. I think the high standards of golf remind people of how lucky they are, or how fortunate they are, to be able to play the game.

When you're on a golf course, a couple of things are very interesting. No matter who you're with and who you're playing with, people want each other to do well.

I'll watch golf while I work out. I'm your average golf fan.

After playing Ballybunion for the first time, a man would think that the game of golf originated here.

I am relying on the theory that playing golf is just like riding a bike and that I haven't forgotten how.

I'll tell you what, I've been in some seriously bad places playing golf and it's just part of the game.

I never mixed with golfers when I was playing, mainly because I didn't want to talk golf all night.

I am against making golf courses obsolete, going to the national Open and playing half the holes with a one-iron.

I don't want to coach too far into my 60s. By then, I'll be playing golf four or five times a week.

I never envisaged how much I'd enjoy just being at home, with the kids, playing loads of golf.

This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.

I love playing competitive golf because it's really the only thing left that I'm still pretty good at.

I remember the reason why did I start my golf. We had a four day game I was playing for Trinidad against the Leeward Islands. They had in their ranks Winston Benjamin, Curtly Ambrose and Kenneth Benjamin. To add to it, the track was a green top. The four day game lasted two days, so I had two days to play golf.

When I was playing football, I always felt in complete control. When I play golf and come under pressure, it's a completely different ball game.

I always thought of myself as some sort of athlete until I started playing golf a couple years ago.

I'm the captain of the Variety Club over in England, and so I'm playing golf for them once a week but doing odd bits.

I've been playing golf as long as I've been dancing, since I was 13 or 14.

Golf isn't first on my list anymore. There are a lot of things ahead of golf and I have to go ahead and do those things so I can play golf. I'm tired of hurting. Tired of fighting pain.

I've been playing golf a long time, although it's not really true that on my first round they strapped my bag on the back of a dinosaur.

I'm playing golf. I ride my mountain bike. A lot. I think it's very important for me and other people my age to continue to exercise.

I still enjoy what I do. I haven't been playing much golf and none since I dislocated my shoulder, but I come to the office every day.

When I was a little girl in Savannah playing, there were never enough hours in the day or holes on the golf course. I just loved the game so much.

This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, thats something a professional golfer has to handle.

I grew up playing hockey and baseball, so I wish I had time to get back into it, but living in L.A. and North Carolina, you have to take advantage of the golf.

That's the thing about golf. In a team sport, when a team's on a roll, you have a little bit more data and comfort in predicting whether the roll's gonna continue, whether the team is playing well and who the opponent is. But the golf course is the opponent. It changes every round in terms of wind and weather and so forth. And your game is never the same two days in a row. It's almost impossible to handicap and predict.

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

I don't have that much interest in golf, to be honest with you. I like playing. It's fun. But after a while it gets boring.

I'm dancing tango, and I'm playing golf, and I'm quite active, you know, and for my age and everything, and what I've gone through, I'm very happy.

I mean, I think having a great family like I do. You know, I tend to want to give it all I have when I'm at the golf course, and then when I leave I don't want to think about golf at all. And I just remind myself almost daily that golf's just my job, it's not who I am.

I never went into a tournament or round of golf thinking I had to beat a certain player. I had to beat the golf course. If I prepared myself for a major, went in focused, and then beat the golf course, the rest took care of itself.

If St. Andrews is the home of golf, I think Pebble Beach feels like the home of American golf, like the home of championship golf. It has a real sense of history here.

I play golf with my shirttail out. I own a golf course because it's very, very close to my house, and I don't want to drive 45 minutes to the north side of Oklahoma City to play golf every day. I have race horses 'cause I love horses and it's my hobby.

I've had the luxury of playing golf around the world, and I've spent a lot of time evaluating how to play all kinds of courses.

There's really no pain in the realm of the higher astral. A lot of spirits are playing mini-golf having a good time.

I played as many golf tournaments as I could. I killed time by playing and practicing. It's something I love to do; it's fun and I was good at it.

I don't feel badly about that. There's a lot of energy on the golf course. The guys are playing great. I like the pairings in the afternoon. I'm going to take what we've got.

If my music career was my golf game, I'd be playing for about 26 people tonight somewhere.

I think that (Alister) MacKenzie and I managed to work as a completely sympathetic team. Of course there was never any question that he was the architect and I was the advisor and consultant. No man learns to design a golf course simply by playing golf, no matter how well. But it happened that both of us were extravagant admirers of the Old Course at St Andrews and we both desired as much as possible to simulate seaside conditions insofar as the differences in turf and terrain would allow.

I didn't start playing golf until '94, when the strike cut the season short. Never having played as a kid definitely makes it a challenge.

I'm used to the golf course playing soft, so tomorrow I'm going to have to pay attention a little bit more.

My kids have grown up knowing nothing other than me being gone all the time and playing in golf tournaments. That's what they know.