Golf Quotes - page 3

I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor. (Robert Redford)
Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature. View quote
Robert Redford
Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose. View quote
Winston Churchill
We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress, in scholastic grades or golf scores. [...] One is often tempted to say that conflict, rather than cooperation, is the great governing principle of human life. View quote
S. I. Hayakawa
If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out. View quote
Paul Gallico
If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman. View quote
Shaquille O'Neal
I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made - my swing is pretty hot. View quote
Shia LaBeouf
I hated golf when we first started, but a big part of the training process was falling in love with this sport, so I went on tour with the UCLA Team. View quote
Shia LaBeouf
I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting. View quote
Shia LaBeouf
When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him. View quote
Shia LaBeouf
And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, then you're not going to believe in the golf story, you're not going to believe in the rest of the film. That's the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie's crap. (Shia LaBeouf)
My golf is woeful but I will never surrender. View quote
Bing Crosby
When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars - that's heaven here on earth. View quote
Bernie Mac
Stan said he used to keep Hardy late, make him miss his golf game, and really get him mad. View quote
Dick Van Dyke
The reason they call it 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up. View quote
Leslie Nielsen
I lead a very active lifestyle. When I am not working, I enjoy snowboarding in winter. I golf and swim in the summer months. However, trying to find the time to exercise when I am traveling is quite a challenge. I find myself working out at hotel gyms quite regularly - just so that I can keep up with my training. View quote
Lee Byung-hun
Show me a man who is a good loser and I'll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss. View quote
James Patrick Murray
Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain. View quote
Celine Dion
There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim. View quote
Billie Jean King
If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. View quote
Jack Lemmon
Do your best, one shot at a time and then move on. Remember that golf is just a game. (Nancy Lopez)
Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over. View quote
Amy Alcott
Golf isn't just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and putting into soup cans, out of the ivy and over rose bushes and hedges - the little Alcott Golf and Country Club. I just loved having a wedge in my hands. View quote
Amy Alcott
Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character. View quote
Arnold Palmer
Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented. View quote
Arnold Palmer