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| Bara öppen. | Tom Watson (1949-) |
| Det är med golf som med kärlek. Om man inte tar det på allvar så är det inte roligt, och tar man det på allvar så kan det krossa ens hjärta. | Torvald Gahlin (1910-2006) |
| Dina klubbor. | Jackie Gleason (1916-1987) |
| Golf och sex är nog det ända man kan njuta av utan att vara bra på det. | Jimmy DeMaret (1910-1983) |
| Golf utan bunkrar och hinder vore bra tamt och monotont. Det vore livet också. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Golf är att förstöra en trevlig promenad. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Golf är det roligaste man kan göra med kläderna på. | Chi Chi Rodriguez (1935-) |
| Golf är ett bättre spel när man spelar nedför. | Jack Nicklaus (1940-) |
| Golf är precis som livet på många sätt - alla de största såren är självförvållade | Bill Clinton (1946-) |
| Hela dagen pratar man golf på jobbet. Resten av dagen pratar man jobb på golfbanan. | Chi Chi Rodriguez (1935-) |
| Jag börjar bli så gammal att jag inte ens köper gröna bananer längre. | Chi Chi Rodriguez (1935-) |
| Jag kan förklara den träffen. Arnold flyttade sin plånbok till den andra fickan. | Ben Crenshaw (1952-) |
| Jag spelar golf för att kunna vara i form när jag möter Gud. | Billy Graham (1918-) |
| Jag spelar golf för att vara i form när jag möter Gud. | Billy Graham (1918-) |
| Livet är som en golfboll. Först en massa hårda slag och sedan hamnar man i ett hål i marken. | Cello |
| Om du vill gå långa promenader, så gå långa promenader. Om du vill slå på saker med en pinne, slå på saker med en pinne. Men det finns ingen ursäkt för att kombinera de två och visa resultatet på TV. Golf är inte så mycket en sport, utan mer en förolämpning mot gräsmattor. | Dave Barry (1947-) |
| Skylt på skotsk golfbana: "Det är förbjudet att plocka upp upphittade bollar innan de slutat rulla." | Dave Barry (1947-) |
| Små golfklubbor för lilleputtar. | Dave Barry (1947-) |
| Tala alltid sanning. Du kanske gör hole-in-one när du är ensam på golfbanan en dag. | Dave Barry (1947-) |
| Även om golf en gång var förbehållet rika, överviktiga protestanter, är det nu för tiden fritt fram för vem som helst som äger fruktansvärda kläder. | Dave Barry (1947-) |
| Golf er ikke en metafor for livet. Det er en sport. En ublodig sport. Hvis man altså ikke tæller mavesår med. | Dick Schaap (1934-) |
| Golf er et mystisk spil. Det har taget mig 40 år at finde ud af, at jeg ikke kan spille det. | Edward Ray |
| Golf bliver spillet af 20 millioner voksne mænd, hvis koner tror, de er ude for at more sig. | Jim Bishop (1907-1987) |
| At slå rigtigt til en golfbold er den mest sofistikerede og komplicerede bevægelse i sportens verden. Måske med undtagelse at spise en hotdog på stadion uden at få sennep på tøjet. | Ray Fitzgerald |
| Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course, the space between your ears. | Bobby Tyre Jones (1902-1971) |
| 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 this is certainly not the case. | Bobby Tyre Jones (1902-1971) |
| Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little. | Bobby Tyre Jones (1902-1971) |
| It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me years to realize it. | Bobby Tyre Jones (1902-1971) |
| The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He's a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too. | Bobby Tyre Jones (1902-1971) |
| For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball. | Dave Barry (1947-) |
| Talking about golf is always boring. (Playing golf can be interesting, but not the part where you try to hit the little ball; only the part where you drive the cart). | Dave Barry (1947-) |
| Golf ... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well. | Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881-1975) |
| 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 (1975-) |
| The biggest liar in the world is the golfer who claims he plays the game for exercise. | Tommy Bold |
| The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| It was a hole in one contest and I had a three. | Abe Lemons (1922-2002) |
| Hey, is this room out of bounds? | Alex Karras (1935-) |
| My best score ever is 103, but I've only been playing 15 years. | Alex Karras (1935-) |
| The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done. | Arnold Palmer (1929-) |
| Golf is a game not just of manners but of morals. | Art Spander |
| So in the summer of 1968, a young golfer from Texas experienced something that would forever change his life. Not only did I fall in love with formal tournament competition, but I was enraptured with so many other facets of the game; the different courses, the people,the history and traditions. | Ben Crenshaw (1952-) |
| The game embarrasses you until you feel inadequate. | Ben Crenshaw (1952-) |
| I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again. | Ben Hogan (1912-1997) |
| The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight. | Ben Hogan (1912-1997) |
| If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived. | Ben Hogan (1912-1997) |
| I'm glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees. | Ben Hogan (1912-1997) |
| Shoot a lower score than everybody else. | Ben Hogan (1912-1997) |
| The real success in golf lies in turning three shots into two. | Bobby Locke (1917-1987) |
| Golf is more fun than walking naked in a strange place, but not much. | Buddy Hackett (1924-2003) |
| I have told Tiger and his parents when they asked me that I think, physically, his game is at a level where he can play and succeed on the professional tour. | Butch Harmon |
| Arnold [Palmer | Byron Nelson (1912-) |
| My God, he looks like he's beating a chicken. | Byron Nelson (1912-) |
| The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I shot the happiest 83 of my life. | Chi Chi Rodriguez (1935-) |
| When Lee and Jack win, it is good for golf. When I win, it is better. | Chi Chi Rodriguez (1935-) |
| I see no reason why Tiger Woods won't become a great player. Man, can he smoke some shots. A little refinement on Tiger's short game and there'll be nothing. He's already pretty darn imposing. | Corey Pavin (1959-) |
| I don't like to watch golf on television because I can't stand people who whisper | David Brenner (1945-) |
| I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to hit a golf ball. | Dennis Quaid (1954-) |
| I like going there for golf. America's one vast golf course these days. | Duke of Edward VIII Windsor (1894-1972) |
| All I've got against golf is it takes you so far from the clubhouse. | Eric Linklater (1899-1974) |
| Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other | Florence King |
| I made nothing happen very slowly. | Gary McCord (1948-) |
| The harder you work, the luckier you get. | Gary Player (1936-) |
| Each shot is important. | Gary Player (1936-) |
| I try to work with God as a partner. | Gary Player (1936-) |
| Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play. | Gary Player (1936-) |
| If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time. | Gary Player (1936-) |
| Golf is not a game of great shots. It's a game of the most misses. The people who win make the smallest mistakes. | Gene Littler |
| Sometimes things work out on the golf course and sometimes they don't. Life will go on. You try to understand what happens, but maybe today I don't want to know. I just screwed up so maybe I should just put it behind me. | Greg Norman (1955-) |
| Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty. | Harry Vardon (1870-1937) |
| A great deal of unnecessarily bad golf is played in this world. | Harry Vardon (1870-1937) |
| They say 'practice" makes perfect.' Of course, it doesn't. For the vast majority of golfers it merely consolidates imperfection. | Henry Longhurst |
| Playing golf is like learning a foreign language. | Henry Longhurst |
| Why do we work so hard to feel so terrible. | Hollis Stacy (1954-) |
| Focus on remedies, not faults. | Jack Nicklaus (1940-) |
| Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation. | Jack Nicklaus (1940-) |
| The name speaks for itself. He stands for all the good there is ingolf. | Jimmy DeMaret (1910-1983) |
| Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun. | Jim Bishop (1907-1987) |
| Don Quixote would understand golf. It is the impossible dream. | Jim Murray (1919-1998) |
| Show me a man who is a good loser and I'll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss. | Jim Murray (1919-1998) |
| The safest place would be in the fairway. | Joe Garagiola (1926-) |
| Do I have to know rules and all that crap? Then forget it. | John Daly (1914-) |
| 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 (1932-) |
| Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories. | Ken Venturi (1931-) |
| Golf always makes me so damned angry | King George V (1865-1936) |
| I'm not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up. | Lee Trevino (1939-) |
| If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron. | Lee Trevino (1939-) |
| There are two things that won't last long in this world, and that's dogs chasing cars and pros putting for pars | Lee Trevino (1939-) |
| Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket. | Lee Trevino (1939-) |
| I'm about as concerned as Jack would be if he read that I was practicing to compete in the Masters | Mark McCormack |
| He's as good at his age as Jack (Nicklaus) was, and look at what Jack has done in the gime of golf. That's the highest praise I can give anyone, to compare him to Jack Nicklaus. | Michael Bonallack |
| He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie | Mickey Mantle (1931-1995) |
| So if you visit Chicago, enjoy the many great courses, the Midwestern friendliness, and the cities other amenities. But if a stranger with a goofy swing wants to play for more than loose change, take a pass. It's a long walk back to your hotel in bare feet. | Mike Royko (1932-1997) |
| I'll get him drunk at high altitude. Or put a pair of skis on him. | Nick Faldo |
| Where the hell's Jane? | Nick Faldo |
| Golf is a game in which you yell "Fore!", shoot six, and write down five | Paul Harvey (1918-) |
| Coverage of golf's most prestigious tournament was filled with odes to Augusta, plus numerous shots of the picture-postcard setting, bees pollinating and what the host called "azaleas screaming at you and dogwoods whispering to you." | Peter Alfano |
| The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody would put a flagstick on top. | Pete Dye |
| Golf is not a fair game, so why build a course fair? | Pete Dye |
| The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise | Roger Simon |
| 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 (1912-2002) |
| The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish. | Sam Snead (1912-2002) |
| I'd like to see the fairways more narrow. Then everyone would have to play from the rough, not just me. | Seve Ballesteros (1957-) |
| No Trevino speaks Mexican. | Seve Ballesteros (1957-) |
| I miss the hole, I miss the hole, I miss the hole, I hole it. | Seve Ballesteros (1957-) |
| Yeah, but I'll be working as a marshal. I'll be helping your team find all the balls they drive into the rough. | Seve Ballesteros (1957-) |
| When you fall in love with golf, you seldom fall easy. It's obsession at first sight. | Thomas Boswell |
| I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love. | Tiger Woods (1975-) |
| Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result | Tommy Armour (1894-1968) |
| Just knock hell out of it with your right hand. | Tommy Armour (1894-1968) |
| Lloyd could get down in two from off the earth. | Tommy Bolt |
| I love it [Practicing in Texas]. You can find anything. You can practice rain, you can practice wind, you can practice on hard pan, you can practice on lush gold courses, you can find all the conditions you will ever encounter in Texas. | Tom Kite |
| When I woke up Sunday morning at the Open and stepped outside and felt the wind and rain in my face, I knew I had an excellent chance to win if I just took my time and trusted myself. | Tom Kite |
| They looked as if they had trees growing out of them. | Tom Kite |
| Faith sir, she looks like the Old Course. | Tom Morris |
| The person I fear most in the last two rounds is myself. | Tom Watson (1949-) |
| You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way. | Walter Hagen (1892-1969) |
| That's the easiest 69 I ever made. | Walter Hagen (1892-1969) |
| My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make? | Walter Hagen (1892-1969) |
| Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you're prepared to lose. | Abigail van Buren (1918-) |
| Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated. | Arnold Palmer (1929-) |
| I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser. | Arnold Palmer (1929-) |
| On the Old Course at St. Andrews: This is the origin of the game, golf in its purest form, and it's still played that way on a course seemingly untouched by time. Every time I play here, it reminds me that this is still a game. | Arnold Palmer (1929-) |
| When I was growing up, they had just found radio. | Arnold Palmer (1929-) |
| Sam Snead will fly anywhere in my plane with me. Sam's not as worried about the danger as he is about saving money. | Arnold Palmer (1929-) |
| As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. | Ben Hogan (1912-1997) |
| Why Don't you aim more to the right? | Ben Hogan (1912-1997) |
| It's the greatest par-3 hole in America. | Ben Hogan (1912-1997) |
| 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 (1912-1997) |
| Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn't it? | Ben Hogan (1912-1997) |
| I read the greens in Spanish, but putt in English. | Chi Chi Rodriguez (1935-) |
| He told me just to keep the ball low. | Chi Chi Rodriguez (1935-) |
| I can't wait until we make an eagle. | Chi Chi Rodriguez (1935-) |
| Then Lee Trevino and Jack Nicklaus come in. I'll caddie for Jack. | Chi Chi Rodriguez (1935-) |
| Golf is tiddlywinks played while standing up and and wearing a hat | Florence King |
| If I had won today and all those other championships, my life might be totally different, but I didn't win. It's not going to affect my life. I am upset inside, but I'm not going to run around and be like a Dennis Rodman and head-butt an official. | Greg Norman (1955-) |
| Double or nothing down the last hole? | Greg Norman (1955-) |
| We heard the roar [for Nicklaus] on 15 and then another and another.By that time, Nicky [Price] and I were back there with about 50 people following us. So I said to Nicky, "Let's do something to wake these people up." | Greg Norman (1955-) |
| The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf-it's almost a law. | H. G. Wells (1866-1946) |
| You son of a bitch. You're something else. I'm really proud of you. | Jack Nicklaus (1940-) |
| I guess that's why they call it Hell. | Jack Nicklaus (1940-) |
| I think I fail a bit less than everyone else. | Jack Nicklaus (1940-) |
| When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster. | Jack Nicklaus (1940-) |
| I like trying to win. That's what golf is all about. | Jack Nicklaus (1940-) |
| When the British Open is in Scotland, there's something special about it. And when it's at St. Andrews, it's even greater. | Jack Nicklaus (1940-) |
| "A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave." | Jack Nicklaus (1940-) |
| 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 (1882-1944) |
| Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt. | Jim Bishop (1907-1987) |
| Most people play a fair game of golf - If you watch them. | Joey Adams (1911-1999) |
| I wasn't there long enough to hear them say what they were. | John Huston (1906-1987) |
| In case of a thunderstorm, stand in the middle of the fairway and hold up a one iron. Not even God can hit a one iron. | Lee Trevino (1939-) |
| This place [Augusta National] rejects me like a skin transplant. | Lee Trevino (1939-) |
| Somewhere along the line I'll be recognized as one of the top players in the Nicklaus era. That's all I want to be remembered for. | Lee Trevino (1939-) |
| Years ago I had a 1-iron I could hit 260 yards through a doorway. Now I can hit it through the keyhole. | Lee Trevino (1939-) |
| You have to understand, I don't play golf for fun. It's my business. When the mailman starts delivering mail on his off day, that's when I'll start playing golf for the hell of it. I like to play in tournaments. There are many great courses around the world that I have never played that are next door to tournaments. I have not played them because I don't play for fun. | Lee Trevino (1939-) |
| I love it. I don't know if I love it as much as Arnold Palmer, but I think I am close. I can't wait to get up in the mornings because I know I am going out to play golf. The game has been very good to me. Much has been said about when I am going to retire but I never will. | Lee Trevino (1939-) |
| I remember when I first came out on the Tour. I was hitting practice balls and Sam Snead and Bob Goalby were next to me. Snead said, 'Who in the hell is this guy? He has a loud mouth and an unorthodox swing.' Goalby said, 'Don't worry Sam, he'll linger but he won't last'. | Lee Trevino (1939-) |
| Write him off quick. I think that's the end of him, really. He's gone. | Nick Faldo |
| I hope people will remember that I shot 67 to come roaring back. | Nick Faldo |
| The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows. | P. G. Wodehouse (1881-) |
| Golf is played with the arms. | Sam Snead (1912-2002) |
| The fairways were so narrow you had to walk down them single file. | Sam Snead (1912-2002) |
| Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away. | Sam Snead (1912-2002) |
| The thing is, you see all the money that's available out there. I see where am I going to play. I have no place to play yet. I'm not exempt. I have no security. So if I don't turn pro and I don't make it out here, where am I going to go? Nike? Hooters? Asia? Anywhere but here, I guess. | Tiger Woods (1975-) |
| That's what I did, same way as last year. We have tapes going back to '84. You know, we have tapes of all of the majors just for review's sake. It's also fun looking at the fashions back in those days, you know, all of the frills and bell bottoms. | Tiger Woods (1975-) |
| I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course. | Tiger Woods (1975-) |
| If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively,then the design strategy is flawed. | Tom Watson (1949-) |
| We tournament golfers are much overrated. We get paid to much. | Tom Watson (1949-) |
| Golf will grow so long as it's fun. | Tom Watson (1949-) |
| [Isao Aoki] is one of the three best players in the world from 100yards. Maybe the best. | Tom Watson (1949-) |
| I could only hit balls thrown down at my feet. | Tom Watson (1949-) |
| I've worked with it. I took three putts and hit the first one about 3 inches fat. The second one, I hit it; and I hit the third 15 inches fat. That was it. | Tom Watson (1949-) |
| Miss a putt for $2,000? Not likely! | Walter Hagen (1892-1969) |
| Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. | Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924) |
| For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball. | Dave Barry (1947-) |
| I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore. | Chi Chi Rodriguez (1935-) |
| The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time. | Vince Lombardi (1913-1970) |
| 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 (1903-2003) |
| People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defences, or the problems of modern society. | Vince Lombardi (1913-1970) |
| Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty. | Harry Vardon (1870-1937) |
| Sometimes things work out on the golf course and sometimes they don't. Life will go on. You try to understand what happens, but maybe today I don't want to know. I just screwed up so maybe I should just put it behind me. | Greg Norman (1955-) |
| 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 (1929-) |
| Golf is a game in which you yell "Fore!", shoot six, and write down five | Paul Harvey (1918-) |
| 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 (1932-) |
| The great thing about this game is that the bad days are wonderful. | Bill Clinton (1946-) |
| Football Is an honest game. It's true to life . It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life. | Joe Namath (1943-) |
| The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie. | George Deukmejian (1928-) |
| When I die, bury me on the golf course so my husband will visit | A. A. Milne (1882-1956) |
| Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad. | A. A. Milne (1882-1956) |
| The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish. | Sam Snead (1912-2002) |
| A great deal of unnecessarily bad golf is played in this world. | Harry Vardon (1870-1937) |
| Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket. | Lee Trevino (1939-) |
| Anthology construction is one of the pleasantest hobbies that a person who is not mad about golf and bridge - that is to say, a thinking person - can possibly have | Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) |
| You must play boldly to win. | Arnold Palmer (1929-) |
| Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you. | Arnold Palmer (1929-) |
| How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt? | Babe Ruth (1895-1948) |
| 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 (1912-1997) |
| The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight. | Ben Hogan (1912-1997) |
| I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again. | Ben Hogan (1912-1997) |
| The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course. | Billy Graham (1918-) |
| You've got to be rich to have a swing like that. | Bob Hope (1903-2003) |
| He hits the ball 130 yards and his jewelry goes 150. | Bob Hope (1903-2003) |
| Isn't it fun to go out on the course and lie in the sun? | Bob Hope (1903-2003) |
| If I'm on the course and lightning starts, I get inside fast. If God wants to play through, let him. | Bob Hope (1903-2003) |
| The real success in golf lies in turning three shots into two. | Bobby Locke (1917-1987) |
| I can't wait until we make an eagle. | Chi Chi Rodriguez (1935-) |
| Golf is the only sport that a professional can enjoy playing with his friends. Can Larry Holmes enjoy fighting one of his friends? | Chi Chi Rodriguez (1935-) |
| Talking about golf is always boring. (Playing golf can be interesting, but not the part where you try to hit the little ball; only the part where you drive the cart.) | Dave Barry (1947-) |
| Golf is not sacred, and there is no use getting so gosh-darned solemn about it. | Don Herold (1889-1966) |
| The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. | Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) |
| I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. | G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) |
| Golf is typical capitalist lunacy. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| I played with Tiger [Woods], and I probably felt like you would be out there with me. Tiger is getting it by me about 50 or 60 yards, so it makes you inferior with your ability to hit the ball. | Greg Norman (1955-) |
| If I had won today and all those other championships, my life might be totally different, but I didn't win. It's not going to affect my life. I am upset inside, but I'm not going to run around and be like a Dennis Rodman and head-butt an official. | Greg Norman (1955-) |
| It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks. | Jack Nicklaus (1940-) |
| I wish I had kept my damn mouth shut. | Jack Nicklaus (1940-) |
| Essentially, he has been retired since he was 21. | Jack Nicklaus (1940-) |
| For the first time I felt like they used to feel when they played with me - Mark hits it so hard and far, I felt totally inadequate. | Jack Nicklaus (1940-) |
| He plays with a style with which I am not personally familiar. | Jack Nicklaus (1940-) |
| He'd count the Bangkok Four-Ball if you let him. | Jack Nicklaus (1940-) |
| Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt. | Jack Nicklaus (1940-) |
| Golf is a better game played downhill. | Jack Nicklaus (1940-) |
| Your clubs. | Jackie Gleason (1916-1987) |
| President Bush played golf yesterday and I understand Vice President Dick Cheney also got in a couple of strokes. | Jay Leno (1950-) |
| Show me a man who plays a good game of golf and I'll show you a man who is neglecting something - John F Kennedy | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer. | John Updike (1932-) |
| In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relives you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season. | Lee Trevino (1939-) |
| His nerve, his memory, and I can't remember the third thing. | Lee Trevino (1939-) |
| At 15 we put down my bag to hunt for a ball, found the ball, lost the bag. | Lee Trevino (1939-) |
| [Jack Nicklaus] was the first to bring in course management. He could go to a course and tell you within one stroke what was going to win. He used to set his sights on that because he could shoot it. He was the only player I know who, if he decided he wanted to win a tournament, could go out and do it. No one will ever be as popular as Arnold Palmer and no one will ever come close to Jack as a player. | Lee Trevino (1939-) |
| I still sweat. My guts are still grinding out there. Sometimes I have enough cotton in my mouth to knit a sweater. | Lee Trevino (1939-) |
| Hey, if your looking for a dad-burn superstar, look at this kid. He was so good today, I wanted to caddie for him. | Lee Trevino (1939-) |
| What if Isao Aoki had won? | Lee Trevino (1939-) |
| You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen. | Lee Trevino (1939-) |
| Nobody buy you and your caddie care what you do out there, and if your caddie is betting against you, he doesn't care, either. | Lee Trevino (1939-) |
| It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| I feel for the sponsors (HSBC) because they put up a lot of money. This is the richest first prize in all of golf (one million pounds). | Michael Campbell |
| It's a little bit disheartening that here we have the biggest (first) prize in the (golf) world and half the guys don't turn up. | Michael Campbell |
| Write him off quick. I think that's the end of him, really. He's gone. | Nick Faldo |
| The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody would put a flagstick on top. | Pete Dye |
| By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time. | Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994) |
| The greens are harder than a whore's heart. | Sam Snead (1912-2002) |
| If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death. | Sam Snead (1912-2002) |
| Golf: A game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of youth | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Ask the American players how many weeks in a row they play in Japan. | Seve Ballesteros (1957-) |
| 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 (1975-) |
| Faith sir, she looks like the Old Course. | Tom Morris |
| Lloyd could get down in two from off the earth. | Tommy Bolt |
| What a shame to waste those great shots on the practice tee. | Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) |
| The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| Golf is a wonderful exercise. You can stand on your feet for hours, watching somebody else putt. | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. | William Wordsworth (1770-1850) |
| Bara öppen. | Tom Watson (1949-) |
| Det är med golf som med kärlek. Om man inte tar det på allvar så är det inte roligt, och tar man det på allvar så kan det krossa ens hjärta. | Torvald Gahlin (1910-2006) |
| Dina klubbor. | Jackie Gleason (1916-1987) |
| Golf och sex är nog det ända man kan njuta av utan att vara bra på det. | Jimmy DeMaret (1910-1983) |
| Golf utan bunkrar och hinder vore bra tamt och monotont. Det vore livet också. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Golf är att förstöra en trevlig promenad. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Golf är det roligaste man kan göra med kläderna på. | Chi Chi Rodriguez (1935-) |
| Golf är ett bättre spel när man spelar nedför. | Jack Nicklaus (1940-) |
| Golf är precis som livet på många sätt - alla de största såren är självförvållade | Bill Clinton (1946-) |
| Hela dagen pratar man golf på jobbet. Resten av dagen pratar man jobb på golfbanan. | Chi Chi Rodriguez (1935-) |
| Jag börjar bli så gammal att jag inte ens köper gröna bananer längre. | Chi Chi Rodriguez (1935-) |
| Jag kan förklara den träffen. Arnold flyttade sin plånbok till den andra fickan. | Ben Crenshaw (1952-) |
| Jag spelar golf för att kunna vara i form när jag möter Gud. | Billy Graham (1918-) |
| Jag spelar golf för att vara i form när jag möter Gud. | Billy Graham (1918-) |
| Livet är som en golfboll. Först en massa hårda slag och sedan hamnar man i ett hål i marken. | Cello |