Quotes About Golf

Obama's the one who never worked a day in his life. He never earned a penny that wasn't public money. How many fund-raisers does he attend every week? How often does he play basketball and golf? I wish I had that kind of time.

When I married Wilnelia, one of the first things I wanted to know about Puerto Rico was the quality of the golf courses.

I think of all my iron shots as punches - not punch shots, but how much pressure I'm applying to the hit.

I feel like I understand Trump's character better than the average person now, having seen all of these little interactions with charity. I wanted to keep doing something that's like that, and not just doing pure politics. So my piece of the Trump empire is the golf courses, Mar-a-Lago, and the winery.

My father wasn't a hard guy. He was a well-liked guy. He had a lot of compassion about things in life. There were rules, but there was also flexibility within those rules. He didn't push me when it came to golf: he just taught me the right way to play the game.

You drive for show but putt for dough.

I always could putt. Part of my makeup, I always could putt.

I putt like I did when I was a kid. When you're a kid, you're not scared of anything.

You can tell a good putt by the noise it makes.

I like to have this gut to put my elbow on it when I putt because I did it for so long. I just feel healthier this way.

I was a big kid who could putt well.

A 3-foot putt can be more nerve-racking than a 9-foot putt because a 3-foot putt you should be getting in. A 9-footer, there's a chance it won't go in.

That three-foot putt is tough for me right now! I'm not making too many putts.

I can sit here and hit all the balls and chip and putt all day long, but if you're not playing competitive golf... there's nothing better than competitive golf.

People watch TV and think a two-foot putt is the greatest thing in the world when a guy knocks it in. But nobody is rushing you. You don't have a center, you don't have a holder. You don't have 100,000 people screaming at you.

No one cares what I think about a 6-foot putt. They care what Ian Baker-Finch thinks.

I don't hit it very far; I don't overpower a golf course, but I think I'm a pretty decent putter. At Augusta National, putting is premium.

I use an Arnold Palmer putter that was probably built back in 1954.

I was the first to win a major with a belly putter, and I've spent hours practicing that way, so I hope they don't ban anchoring.

President Clinton knew the course and goes, 'Here's what you want to do here.' By the fourth hole, you wanted to hit him with your putter.

For me, I like messing around with different shapes and things but I think what I've come to realize is I need a putter that just sits nicely in my hands.

The greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

I'd like to see something done about the long putters and belly putters. But I go back and forth on that. I've actually worked with a belly putter.

I kid my friends who are golfers, and I say, 'If you ever hear me complain, hit me in the butt with a putter' because I have no reason to complain. Even on days when you don't like what you see in the paper, I have no reason to complain.