Quotes About Golf

There would be nothing to get me to run for president. I don't even understand how anyone would want that job at all. Although I would be able to play golf which I don't seem to have time now.

I didn't really get into golf until I was about 14. My mom and dad were taking lessons from a pro an hour and a half from our farm in Cohuna, Australia. When they got home, I'd ask my mom to explain everything they learned - drills and all.

All I did was go to school and play golf. I didn't have much of a social life.

The good part is if I play a solid round of golf, it will be very hard for the others to beat me. And that's all I'm thinking about.

Pace of play has been an issue for golf at all levels for a long time and I'm committed to being a part of the solution, not the problem.

Some men play golf. I've got this crazy thing about maintaining our nation's maritime heritage.

It was one of the games we were allowed to play. Golf was another one because it consisted of using a rod to hit something much, much smaller than yourself and a lot of men in this town enjoyed that sort of thing.

They talk about Amen Corner but there's so much more to it than what meets the eye on this golf course.

I can't afford to be a member of a golf course.

I love Wingfoot; I'm a member of Wingfoot. It's a great course.

The earliest golfing memories that I have are of the Italian Open when I was about six years of age. Watching that event is how I really got started in the game.

When you come off that last hole and you've just finished a good round of golf, life is good. When you come off that last hole and you messed it up through four or five holes and just played a lousy round of golf, it's just not a very good day. It just isn't.

I met Michael Jordan on a golf course! I don't even know what to say. I'm still freaked out that I met him.

The Lord has blessed me to play this game. I'm going to try to play it as long as I can. But at the same time, I want to be able to watch my kids grow up, so I've gotten to where I'm a little more mild, and I don't take golf as seriously as I did in the earlier years of my career.

They have a new division where you have to be at least 80 years old. You play three days for a million dollars, one hole a day, and if you can remember what you shot, you win!

I've played with amateurs for a million years, and they just don't hit many flush shots.

When Jack Nicklaus won the Masters in 1986, it was mind-blowing. How in the world could a 46-year-old win the Masters?

I changed my body, changed my mindset in the game, and I was able to accomplish a win while playing a completely different style of golf. And it's pretty amazing to see that. I hope it's an inspiration to a lot of people.

I had some sort of ability and knew that I needed to work hard, to dedicate myself to the game. I sacrificed a lot. But maybe golf kept me out of trouble. Some of the guys who lived my life minus the golf have certainly been in trouble.

You think nuts don't apply to the FBI? We get 'em all the time. A man in a Moe hairpiece applied in St. Louis last week. He had a bazooka, two rockets, and a bearskin shako in his golf bag." "Did you hire him?

In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.

Art said he wanted to get more distance. I told him to hit it and run backward.

As the great golfer Ben Hogan once said, "Golf is a game of luck. And the harder I work, the luckier I get.

Carl Spackler IT'S IN THE HOLE.