Famous Golf Quotes

"Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half inch course...the space between your ears." -Bobby Jones

"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

Don't be too proud to take a lesson. I'm not.
- Jack Nicklaus

Nobody ever remembers who finished second at anything.
- Jack Nicklaus

A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.
- Jack Nicklaus

Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20 percent of the time, you're the best.
- Jack Nicklaus

It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it.
- Jack Nicklaus

A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
- Jack Nicklaus

Golf is not, and never has been, a fair game.
- Jack Nicklaus

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

Keeping the head still is golf's one universal, unarguable fundamental.
- Jack Nicklaus

When you lip out several putts in a row, you should never think that means that you're putting well. When you're putting well, the only question is what part of the hole it's going to fall in, not if it's going in.
- Jack Nicklaus

When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.
- Jack Nicklaus

How did I make a twelve on a par five hole? It's simple. I missed a four-foot putt for an eleven.
- Arnold Palmer

It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.
- Arnold Palmer

I never rooted against an opponent, but I never rooted for him either.
- Arnold Palmer

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that i didn't have a chance to win.
- Arnold Palmer

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

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.
- Arnold Palmer

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.
- Arnold Palmer

Forget your opponents; always play against par.
- Sam Snead

Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.
- Sam Snead

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.
- Sam Snead

There is an old saying: if a man comes home with sand in his cuffs and cockleburs in his pants, don't ask him what he shot.
- Sam Snead

Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.
- Sam Snead