Subject: Sports » Golf

If you pick up a golfer and hold it close to your ear, like a conch shell, and listen, you will hear an alibi.

My best score ever was 103. But I've only been playing fifteen years.

(1935 – 2012) American football player, sports announcer & actor

If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game would be played far better than it is.

golf author

But if you figure in the wind chill factor, it’s only 102.

professional golfer

Go ahead and putt, you are not interrupting my conversation. 


Isn't it fun to go out on the course and lie in the sun?

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

You can’t lose an old golf ball.

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

(1929 – 2016) American golfer

Your clubs.

(1916 – 1987) television actor & comedian

Golf is essentially an exercise in masochism conducted out of doors.

The only way to avoid hitting a tree is to aim at it.

It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

If he couldn't chip, he'd be selling cars in San Diego.

professional golfer & commentator

Those who the gods seek to destroy first, learn how to play golf.

(1926 – 2010) Canadian actor

Golf: A game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose

(1856 – 1924) 28th U.S. president & politician

Your best golf shots always occur when playing alone.

He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes at its maximum only to the man who has given up golf.

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist

Fairway: The well-kept and seldom used portion of a golf course.

Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt.

(1912 – 2002) professional golfer

I've heard people say putting is 50 percent technique and 50 percent mental. I really believe it is 50 percent technique and 90 percent positive thinking, see, but that adds up to 140 percent, which is why nobody is 100 percent sure how to putt.

(1935 – ) Puerto Rican professional golfer

The main problem with keeping your eye on the ball is you have to take your eye off your opponent.

(1941 – ) poet, author, editor & anthologist