Golf Quotes

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps. (Tiger Woods)
Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. View quote
Dave Barry
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. View quote
Bertrand Russell
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. View quote
Gerald Ford
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. View quote
John Updike
Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
Terrible. It took me 17 years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. View quote
Hank Aaron
The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law. View quote
H. G. Wells
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. View quote
William Wordsworth
The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. View quote
Will Rogers
It's not like I'm hanging out at shopping malls or going to celebrity golf tournaments. I'm so in my own little world. I got my dog, my music, my brother, a couple of friends. (Jared Leto)
One thing that golf teaches you is humility. View quote
Robert Wagner
He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie. View quote
Mickey Mantle
I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course. View quote
Groucho Marx
To find a man's true character, play golf with him. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible. View quote
Jean Giraudoux
Golf is a good walk spoiled. View quote
Mark Twain
Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture. View quote
Winston Churchill
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. View quote
Bob Hope
It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus. (Jack Nicklaus)
The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course. View quote
Billy Graham
You know, why the game of golf is popular? Very easy, it's a great game. View quote
Bernhard Langer
That's the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on. View quote
Bernhard Langer
The game of golf doesn't come rushing back to you. Last week I made a couple of fundamental mistakes that I probably wouldn't have made in the heat of the battle back when I was in my heyday, and those things have got to come back. View quote
Greg Norman