Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course — Bobby Jones
If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. — Jack Lemmon
One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green. — John Gunther
Go play golf. Go to the golf course. Hit the ball. Find the ball. Repeat until the ball is in the hole. Have fun. The end. — Chuck Hogan
You build a golf game like you build a wall, one brick at a time. — Tony Lema
I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it. — Rogers Hornsby
Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies. — Bobby Jones
Golf is just a game - and an idiotic game most of the time. — Mark Calcavecchia
Golf is the most fun you can have with out taking your clothes off. — Chi Chi Rodriguez
The right way to play golf is to go up and hit the bloody thing. — George Duncan
They call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken. — Ray Floyd
Only bad golfers are lucky. They're the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky. — Lee Trevino
It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square. — Pete Rose
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. — Mark Twain
Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe. — Lee Trevino
Short Golf Ball Quotes
Golf's three ugliest words: still your shot. — Dave Marr
The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight. — Ben Hogan
Golf is a non-violent game played violently from within. — Bob Toski
Golf is a good walk spoiled. — Mark Twain
Golf is the only game I know of that actually becomes harder the longer you play it. — Bobby Jones
Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots. — Ben Hogan
Golf is like a chain. You always have to work on the weakest links. — George Archer
See the ball; hit the ball. — Pete Rose
It's so bad I could putt off a tabletop and still leave the ball halfway down the leg. — J. C. Snead
He hits the ball 130 yards and his jewelry goes 150. — Bob Hope
Golf Ball Image Quotes
Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
Golf Swing Quotes
My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch. — Lee Trevino
You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about. — Bobby Jones
After all these years, it's still embarrassing for me to play on the American golf tour. Like the time I asked my caddie for a sand wedge and he came back ten minutes later with a ham on rye. — Chi Chi Rodriguez
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
I'm not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they'd come up sliced. — Lee Trevino
Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing. — Ben Hogan
Who can say I have a bad swing? The only thing that matters in golf is the score you put on the board. You don't have to look pretty out there, you have to win. Look at my record and tell me who has a better swing than mine. — Lee Trevino
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.
A bad attitude is worse than a bad swing. — Payne Stewart
I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance my left ear is from my right. — Ben Crenshaw
Golf is the only sport I know of where a player pays for every mistake. A man can muff a serve in tennis, miss a strike in baseball, or throw an incomplete pass in football and still have another chance to square himself. In golf, every swing counts against you. — Lloyd Mangrum
It is more satisfying to be a bad player at golf. The worse you play, the better you remember the occasional good shot. — Nubar Gulbenkian
Golf Putting Quotes
Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get. — Brian Tracy
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. — Bernie Mac
The most important shot in golf is the next one. — Ben Hogan
Never concede the putt that beats you. — Harry Vardon
Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money. — Lee Trevino
The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top. — Pete Dye
Half of golf is fun; the other half is putting. — Peter Dobereiner
A good player who is a great putter is a match for any golfer. A great hitter who cannot putt is a match for no one. — Ben Sayers
The more I practice, the luckier I get. — Jerry Barber
A tap-in is a putt that is short enough to be missed one-handed. — Henry Beard
Golf Game Quotes
I used to play golf. I wanted to be a better player, but after a while I realized I'd always stink. And that's when I really started to enjoy the game. — Don Rickles
Do not be tempted to invest in a sample of each golfing invention as soon as it makes its appearance. If you do, you will only complicate and spoil your game - and encumber your locker with useless rubbish. — Harry Vardon
But in the end it's still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you've missed the point. — Payne Stewart
The rewards of golf, and of life too I expect, are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules. — Bobby Jones
Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But such is certainly not the case. — Bobby Jones
In golf your strengths and weaknesses will always be there. If you could improve your weaknesses, you would improve your game. The irony is that people prefer to practice their strengths. — Harvey Penick
No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why golf is the greatest of games. You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par. — Bobby Jones
For this game you need, above all things, to be in a tranquil frame of mind. — Harry Vardon
I mean, I can actually say goodbye to the game of golf, never hit another golf shot the rest of my life and I'd be happy because I can get back in life without any rotation. — Greg Norman
I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis tournaments. — Richard Davies
Golf Clubs Quotes
If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him. — Lou Holtz
You don't know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two bucks in your pocket. — Lee Trevino
There are two things you can do with your head down - play golf and pray. — Lee Trevino
If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every business office, government agency, golf club and university faculty would yield its quota. — John W. Gardner
I would rather be of clear mind and decision with the wrong club than with an unclear mind and the right club. — Walter Hagen
If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death. — Sam Snead
Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air. — Jack Benny
Show me a golfer who doesn't have a mean streak, and I'll show you a weak competitor. — Lee Trevino
I expect to play golf until I am 90-even longer if anybody figures out a way to swing a club from a rocking chair. — Babe Didrikson Zaharias
We were all born with webbed feet and a golf club in our hand. — Old Tom Morris
Golf Course Quotes
You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules. — Bobby Jones
Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea. — Anne Sexton
You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course. — Jello Biafra
It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it. — Jack Nicklaus
I never learned anything from a match that I won. — Bobby Jones
In order to win, you must play your best golf when you need it most, and play your sloppy stuff when you can afford it. I shall not attempt to explain how you achieve this happy timing. — Bobby Jones
If there is one thing I have learned during my years as a professional, it is that the only thing constant about golf is its inconstancy. — Jack Nicklaus
You know I need that cockiness, the self-belief, arrogance, swagger, whatever you want to call it, I need that on the golf course to bring the best out of myself. So you know once I leave the golf course, you know that all gets left there. — Rory McIlroy
A lot of my buddies also played golf, but when it came to going to the beach or on the boat and chasing girls, they usually went that way and I went to the golf course. — Mike Weir
As I watched the seagulls, I thought, That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust. — Nikos Kazantzakis
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
I believe nicotine plus caffeine equals protein. — John Daly
I look into eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking, I am going to bury you. — Seve Ballesteros
There are only two types of player-those who keep their nerves under control and win championships, and those who do not. — Harry Vardon
The main idea in golf as in life, I suppose is to learn to accept what cannot be altered and to keep on doing one's own reasoned and resolute best whether the prospect be bleak or rosy. — Bobby Jones
This fitness thing is blown out of proportion. What am I going to do on a treadmill - smoke a cigarette and drink a diet Coke? — John Daly
When it blows here, even the seagulls walk. — Nick Faldo
A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano -- and dumb. — Marilyn Monroe
The real way to enjoy playing golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes. — Bobby Jones
Playing Golf Quotes
I wasn't this nervous playing golf when I was drinking. It's the first tournament I've won on the PGA Tour in a sober manner, so it's a great feeling knowing I can do it sober. I don't think two years ago I could have pulled this off. — John Daly
I'd like to see the fairways more narrow. Then everybody would have to play from the rough, not just me. — Seve Ballesteros
The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win. — Phil Mickelson
All seasoned players know, or at least have felt, that when you are playing your best, you are much the same as in a state of meditation. You are free of tension and chatter. You are concentrating on one thing. It is the ideal condition for good golf. — Harvey Penick
Of course, money matters to everyone even if some don't want to admit it. If I won the Race to Dubai, I look at that prize money and think it could pay off my new house or the range I'm building. I am privileged to play golf for a living - look around St Andrews, that's my office. — Sayings
Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake. — Sylvester Stallone
Some golfers fantasize about playing in a foursome with Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Sam Snead. The way I hit I'd rather play in a foursome with Helen Keller, Ray Charles, and Stevie Wonder. — Bruce Lansky
I like to play snooker, golf as well. — John Terry
Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you. — Hal Linden
There is one thing in this world that is dumber than playing golf. That is watching someone else playing golf. What do you actually get to see? Thirty-seven guys in polyester slacks squinting at the sun. Doesn't that set your blood racing? — Peter Andrews
Good Golf Quotes
Golf tips are like aspirin. One may do you good, but if you swallow the whole bottle you will be lucky to survive. — Harvey Penick
I am tired of all these golfers who are happy with second place. The only one who will like you if you come in second place is your wife and your dog. And that is only if you have a good wife and a good dog. — Gary Player
John certainly gives it a good hit, doesn't he? My Sunday best is a Wednesday afternoon compared to him. — Nick Faldo
Golf is a game you can never get too good at. You can improve, but you can never get to where you master the game. — Gay Brewer
A strong mind is one of the key components that separates the great from the good. — Gary Player
A good golf course makes you want to play so badly that you hardly have the time to change your shoes. — Ben Crenshaw
It’s always good to play with big players, you know. — Paul Pogba
Sex and golf are the two things you can enjoy even if you're not good at them. — Kevin Costner
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. — H. L. Mencken
Sex is the most fun you can have without smiling. — Madonna Ciccone
Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation. — Grantland Rice
Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life not to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy. — Amy Alcott
Golf is a game that needlessly prolongs the lives of some of our most useless citizens. — Bob Hope
I was playing golf. I swung, missed the ball, and got a big chunk of dirt. I swung again, missed the ball, and got another big chunk of dirt. Just then, 2 ants climbed on the ball saying, "Let's get up here before we get killed!" — Henny Youngman
Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf. — Gene Perret
Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor. — Martin Sheen
Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at it. — Jimmy Demaret
Golf seems to me an arduous way to go for a walk. I prefer to take the dogs out. — Anne, Princess Royal
I don't fear death, but I sure don't like those three-footers for par. — Chi Chi Rodriguez
Tennis Balls Quotes
In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe. — Elliott Chaze
Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust. — John Webster
The trouble with me is that every match I play against five opponents: umpire, crowd, ball boys, court, and myself. — Goran Ivanisevic
I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the delightful game that it is. — Helen Wills
It's important for the young players to practice other ball games as well, basketball or table tennis. On the tennis court, you can improve your eye through a kind of overexertion. — Rafael Nadal
Try throwing a ball just once for a dog. It would be like eating only one peanut or potato chip. Try to ignore the importuning of a Golden Retriever who has brought you his tennis ball, the greatest treasure he possesses! — Roger Caras
Just the other day someone threw a bra duct-taped to a tennis ball. I just stood there, playing guitar, thinking how this was totally premeditated. Some girl sat around inventing a way to get her bra onstage from 40 rows back. — Dave Grohl
Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go. — Russell Lynes
Every time I hit the ball on the wall I uses to pretend I was there (Wimbledon). When I went to sleep I used to pretend I was there. — Evonne Goolagong Cawley
I get as much fun as the next man from whaling the ball as hard as I can and catching it squarely on the button. But from sad experience I learned not to try this in a round that meant anything. — Bobby Jones
Beauty is Nature in perfection; circularity is its chief attribute. Behold the full moon, the enchanting golf ball, the domes of splendid temples, the huckleberry pie, the wedding ring, the circus ring, the ring for the waiter, and the "round" of drinks. — O. Henry
You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life. — Grantland Rice
If I can hit a curveball, why can't I hit a ball that is standing still on a course? — Larry Nelson
I didn't miss the putt. I made the putt. The ball missed the hole. — Peter Jacobsen
There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls. — Lee Trevino
Coretta Scott King was all about her pearl earrings. At one point, I'm wearing pearl earrings the size of golf balls. They're enormous! She was bold-she knew that she was the Jackie Kennedy of her community. — Sayings
You've just one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you've hit it. — Sam Snead
May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters. — Ben Hogan
You'd think a guy who has broken 35 bones in his body would have a high pain threshold, but mine is pretty low. I got hit in the shin with a golf ball once and it almost brought tears to my eyes. I've had broken bones that didn't hurt as bad. — Evel Knievel
Control is the main thing, and the tee shot is the most important shot in golf. You've got to hit the fairway before you have a good chance of putting the ball close to the pin. You can be the greatest iron player in the world, but if you're in the boondocks it won't do you any good. — Ben Hogan
Here were decent godless people;
Their only monument the asphalt road
And a thousand lost golf balls. — T. S. Eliot
When you're having trouble and topping the ball, it means the ground is moving on you. — Chi Chi Rodriguez
The reason I don't play golf is because I was a caddie when I was 13. Women never gave up a golf ball that was lost somewhere in the trees and thicket and down through the poison ivy. It was during one of these searches that I vowed to the Lord above that if I ever earned enough money I would never set foot on a course again. — Art Buchwald
The best advice I can give for playing a ball out of water is - don't. — Tony Lema
Every golfer should come to the first tee with fourteen clubs, a dozen balls, a handful of tees, and at least one great golf story — Lee Trevino
Just trust your instincts. There's an old saying in golf, you've studied the swing many times, and you practice and practice, but when you stand over the ball, you just have to trust your swing. And you trust it. And if you don't trust it, you'll ruin it; your brain will take over. — Clint Eastwood
When you make a mistake, the ocean gives you an instant reminder. You get punished. If golf clubs could shock you every time you hit the ball wrong, we'd probably learn how to play golf pretty well. — Laird Hamilton
Trouble shots are surprisingly easy if you activate your imagination. You simply must be able to imagine exactly what flight the ball will take before you can play any shot well. — Walter Hagen
Don't be in such a hurry. That little white ball isn't going to run away from you. — Patty Berg
Bobby JonesConsidered objectively, it is quite obviously a very simple matter to propel a ball with a stick across some specially prepared ground and into a hole which is of sufficient size to accomodate it by a good margin. Simple that is, provided there is no limit upon the time or the number of strokes required. — Bobby Jones
There is no truth in the idea that the person who hits the most balls will become the best golfer. Golf is a bizarre sport. You can work for years on your game, without making any improvement in your score. — Fred Couples
In golf, a player can step and mar the line of his adversary's putt. A player can also hit his adversary or his caddie intentionally with his ball and claim the hole - but it isn't usually done. — Charles Brown MacDonald
I had a wonderful experience on the golf course today. I had a hole in nothing. Missed the ball and sank the divot. — Don Adams
Most people play a fair game of golf - if you watch them. — Joey Lauren Adams
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive: the white ball sailing up into the sky, reaching its apex, falling and finally dropping to the turf, just the way I planned it. — Arnold Palmer
And I say, 'Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.' And he says, 'Oh, uh, there won't be any money. But when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.' So I got that goin' for me, which is nice. — Bill Murray
The hardest shot in golf is a mashie at 90 yards from the green, where the ball has to be played against an oak tree, bounces back into a sandtrap, hits a stone, bounces on the green and then rolls into the cup. That shot is so difficult I have made it only once. — Zeppo Marx
A golf ball is like a clock. Always hit it at 6 o'clock and make it go toward 12 o'clock. But make sure you're in the same time zone. — Chi Chi Rodriguez
My doctor asked me how many golf balls I had hit in my career. I'm lying there in bed calculating somewhere between four and five million golf balls I had hit to do that on my body. — Greg Norman
Got more dirt than ball. Here we go again. — Alan Shepard
It does look like a very good exercise. But what is the little white ball for? — Ulysses S. Grant
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