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To quit between tee and green is more habit-forming than drinking a highball before breakfast.
When golf used to be a rich man's sport, if you were poor you could not step foot on a course.
Golf is difficult to get your personality over because you are such a bottle of concentration.
Golf is like love. One day you think you are too old and the next day you want to do it again.
I don't have any big secret about putting. Just hit at it. It's either going to miss or go in.
I played golf... I did not get a hole in one, but I did hit a guy. That's way more satisfying.
I try to simulate the most difficult conditions the players will encounter during competition.
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
Gerry Ford is easy to spot on the course. He drives the cart with the red cross painted on top.
I still swing the way I used to, but when I look up the ball is going in a different direction.
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
I wouldn't recommend [boxing] to any child of mine. I would rather he played golf or something.
Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.
It's easy at times to win golf tournaments and shoot 59, and sometimes it's hard to post an 85.
When I'm off the golf course, I feel the pressure, but I try to concentrate on the golf course.
The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.
Let the machine take care of the machines, and I'll go spend more time with my family, or golf.
The putter looks like a bunch of nuts and bolts welded together, but the ball goes in the hole.
I always putted without a glove but I have no idea why - I saw others doing it and copied them.
I can beat any two players in this tournament by myself. If I need any help, I'll let you know.
There are no absolutes in golf. Golf is such an individual game, and no two people swing alike.
We find things where we look for them, which is why I never look for a golf ball out of bounds.
My favorite shots are the practice swing and the conceded putt. The rest can never be mastered.
You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
Exercise? I get it on the golf course. When I see my friends collapse, I run for the paramedics.
I always wanted to be a golfer, only I realised that if I'd played golf I would have been skint.
Sport was an obvious favourite of mine, and not only golf. I was, and still am, a big rugby fan.
It isn't the hours that you put in at practice that count. It's the way you spend those minutes.
Golf is a wonderful exercise. You can stand on your feet for hours, watching somebody else putt.
Show me a man with a great golf game, and I’ll show you a man who has been neglecting something.
Golf is the only sport where watching the game is arguably as grueling physically as playing it.
I'm going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money-winners list.
Golf is a game in which attitude of mind counts for incomparably more than mightiness of muscle.
If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
When you play the game for fun, it's fun. When you play it for a living, it's a game of sorrows.
There is no surer or more painful way to learn a rule than to be penalized once for breaking it.
This thing is for the game of golf, yeah, but trust me, the Europeans don't have that mentality.
Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.
Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.
I just hope I don't have to explain all the times I've used His name in vain when I get up there.
If you have an ego of any sort, this course [Augusta] will take it and shove it down your throat.
Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course.
I did not want to turn to playing golf because golf is about as much exercise as shuffling cards.
If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.
I accept the fact that I'm going to miss it sometimes. I just hope I miss it where I can find it.
After hitting two balls into the water- By God, I've got a good mind to jump in and make it four.
A ball will always come to rest halfway down a hill, unless there is sand or water at the bottom.
Your final goal is to convert your athletic swing to pure instinct rather than conscious thought.
Golf is my real profession. Entertainment is just a sideline. I tell jokes to pay my greens fees.
You don't know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two bucks in your pocket.