Quotes by Famous Golfers

[sssmokin]

I'll start this with a few of my favorites:

"Through years of experience, I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt". Jack Nicklaus, after teeing a ball exceedingly high

"Dividing the swing into its parts is like dissecting a cat. You'll have blood and guts and bones all over the place. But you won't have a cat." Ernest Jones

"Golf is the most fun you can have without taking your clothes off." Chi Chi Rodriguez

"I'd like to see the fairways more narrow. Then everybody would have to play from the rough, not just me." Seve Ballesteros

[Jules150]

"Everyday you miss practice is a day longer it takes to get good"-Ben Hogan. Its not funny or anything but its my moto.

[sssmokin]

Here's a couple more of my favorites:

"That's the trouble with Nick. The only time he opens his mouth is to change feet." David Feherty on Nick Faldo

"The only way of really finding out a man's true character is to play golf with him. In no other walk of life does the cloven hoof so quickly display itself." P.G. Wodehouse

"There is no movement in the golf swing so difficult that it cannot be made even more difficult by careful study and diligent practice." Thomas Mulligan

[kwcsports]

" If you play golf you are my friend" Harvey Penick

[kwcsports]

" There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls." Lee Trevino

[LyleG]

"when out in the lightning, hold your 1 iron straight up in the air because even god cant hit a one iron" lee Trevino

"your problem is you stand to close to the ball, after you've hit it" (cant remember who said this)

[SiberianDVM]

"Hit second ball first" - ancient Japanese golfing proverb

[cypressperch]

to his scramble partners right before he teed off on the first hole, "Don't worry, fellas. We'll get them on the back nine!" Nice confidence builder.

Cypressperch


I think it was Tommy Bolt who said to always throw clubs down the fairway so that you don't have to walk as far.

[artfulgolfer]

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. --Arnold Palmer

[Davebud]

The reason the pro tell you to keep your head down is so that you won't see him laughing at your swing-----Phylis Diller

[VtDivot]

He's a Cinderella boy, tears in his eyes I guess... Carl Spackler

[VtDivot]

How much do I owe you? - VTDivot

[cypressperch]

"Golf was invented by a people who believe that music comes out of bagpipes." Not sure what his point was, but it seems sort of funny.

Cypressperch

[Sandpiper3]

When Micheal Jordan asked Tiger how to hit it low under the wind, Tiger simply replied by saying "Just hit it like I do".

[lwc]

"If you drive the kart fast enough, you can always get a decent lie."

-Mickey Mantle