«Golf»

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

William Wordsworth

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Mark Twain

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

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

John Updike

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

Woodrow Wilson

in which you yell ’fore,’ shoot six, and write down five.

Paul Harvey

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

Ernest Hemingway

I don’t want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

Rogers Hornsby

If you think it’s hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

Jack Lemmon

The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf - it’s almost a law.

H. G. Wells

If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf.

Bob Hope

The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.

Ben Hogan

No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer’s mind.

Tom Watson

I’m a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They’re great for you limber-wise, they’re great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.

Matthew McConaughey

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they’d starve to death.

Sam Snead

To find a man’s true character, play golf with him.

P. G. Wodehouse

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

Jim Bishop

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.

Robert Wilson Lynd

Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you’re playing against yourself and nature.

Robert Redford

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

Will Rogers

Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don’t you?

Ben Hogan