Quotes About Golf

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.

It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.

Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemeteries.

I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere.

I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.

When it comes to golf, Scottish people are famously reserved, undemonstrative, difficult to impress. Golf is like church in Scotland, church like golf.

Perhaps more than any other sport, golf focuses pressure on the player. There are no time constraints, as there are in other sports. Your competitors are not allowed to hinder you, as they are in other sports. The pressure originates in yourself; it builds from doubts. A two-foot putt on the practice green doesn't spark many doubts. A two-foot putt to win a bet or a tournament or a Masters is another thing entirely.

Golf is golf. You hit the ball, you go find it. Then you hit it again.

They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. It's more complicated than that.

The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself.

I enjoy now doing what I do... playing golf, relaxing a little, enjoying life.

I'm just happy I got a hole-in-one for the first time in my life.

I found golf late in life, in 1990. I took some lessons and struggled. Then one day, I hit a drive that was so crisp and clean, with no vibration. There's no feeling like it. I was hooked.

I want people to judge me on what we have achieved after five years. I will go back to my home in Bermuda, play some golf and live a healthier life.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.

The amateur has an infectious, contagious enthusiasm for golf and life.

The life of the golfer is not all gloom; There's always the lies in the locker room.

Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic.

The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil.

My body is here, but my mind has already teed off.

I play golf for a living. I'm grateful for that. It's a beautiful game, provides a great opportunity.

The Internet is a game changer. I'm hopeful I can make a contribution by providing a way to learn about the game of golf free of charge.

I think most amateurs dread playing a 180-plus-yard par 3 even more than a hard par 4. Part of it is psychological: You think you should be getting a breather, distance-wise, and instead, you get hit with a long iron or hybrid shot over trouble.

It pleased the public to think I lived the easy, carefree life - the playboy of golf.