Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
- A.A. Milne
Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.
- Tiger Woods
There's no game like golf: you go out with three friends, play eighteen holes, and return with three enemies
- Unknown
Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course - the distance between your ears.
- Bobby Jones
A golf course is nothing but a pool room moved outdoors.
- Frank Butler
A great deal of unnecessarily bad golf is played in this world.
- Harry Vardon
Eighteen holes of match or medal play will teach you more about your foe than will 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.
- Grantland Rice
All I want to do is do my shows and play golf.
- Mickey Gilley
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.
- Jean Giraudoux
That putt had more breaks than a government job.
- Brian Weis
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place this world is when one is playing golf.
- Robert Lynd
Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.
- Unknown
I have a tip that can take five strokes off anyone's golf game: it's called an eraser.
- Arnold Palmer
Anybody who plays golf will tell you that you play against yourself.
- Martin Sheen
Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.
- Arnold Palmer
Golf is like a love affair. If you don't take it seriously, it's no fun; if you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart.
- Arthur Daley
As we all know... golf is a puzzle without an answer.
- Gary Player
Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best
- Jack Nicklaus
Golf is like an 18-year-old girl with big boobs. You know it's wrong but you can't keep away from her.
- Val Doonican
A great deal of unnecessarily bad golf is played in this world.
- Harry Vardon
Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic.
- Unknown
Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.
- Tiger Woods
The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.
- Billy Graham
The only sure rule in golf is – he who has the fastest cart never has to play the bad lie.
- Mickey Mantle
The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.
- John Updike
Golf is a game not just of manners but of morals.
- Art Spander
If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is.
- Horace G. Hutchinson
All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?
- Willie Nelson
Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.
- Dave Barry
If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
- Jack Lemmon
They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. Golf is more complicated than that.
- Gardner Dickinson
Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.
- P.J. O'Rourke
Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's.
- Grantland Rice
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
- G.K. Chesterton
