20th-century Golfer Quotes

Tiger Woods

Jack Nicklaus

Arnold Palmer

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Annika Sörenstam

Gary Player

Sam Snead

Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result.

Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.

You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry. Don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.

Golf without Jones would be like France without Paris: leaderless, lightless and lonely.

Herbert Warren Wind

Golf is like a love affair. If you don't take it seriously, it's no fun. If you do take it seriously, it will break your heart.

Winning doesn't come cheaply … you have to pay a big price.

Jeev Milkha Singh

Golf is the most brilliant game ever invented! What other game could turn seemingly intelligent and sane people into complete lunatics in a matter of seconds?

Jesper Parnevik

I've thrown or broken a few clubs in my day. In fact, I guess at one time or another I probably held distance records for every club in the bag.

Remember you have to be comfortable. Golf is not a life or death situation. It's just a game and should be treated as such. Stay loose.

Chi-Chi Rodríguez

The first step in building a solid, dependable attitude is to be realistic, not only about your inherent capabilities, but also about how well you are playing to those capabilities on any given day.

The Golf Hall of Fame is full of players with unusual looking swings. Some of the prettiest swings you've ever seen in your life are made on the far end of the public driving range by guys who couldn't break an egg with a baseball bat.

I have been able to hope for the best, expect the worst, and take what comes along. If there has been one fundamental reason for my success, this is it.

Wisdom, health, life and love cannot be found in trying to control the wind, but rather in harnessing the wind in the sails of receptive engagement of the present moment.

I think when you're trying to improve, the most important thing is to always have a plan.

Faldo has lost a lot of respect from players because of what he said.

The things I knew I could do, I tried to master. The things I knew I couldn't do, I never tried.

Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities—patience, poise, restraint—to the flame.

The player who expects a lesson to 'take' without subsequent practice just isn't being honest with himself or fair to his professional.

I'm going back to my tour where I belong. The attention was more than I expected. The golf course wasn't a problem. It was just the things around it. All the preparation I've done in the last month weighed on me.

Annika Sörenstam

Some of us are fortunate enough to play championship golf, but this isn't essential in the enjoyment of the game.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

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

Golf is a difficult game, but it's a little easier if you trust your instincts. It's too hard a game to try to play like someone else.

All of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of.

I knew that if I kept the pressure on and didn't do anything stupid I would probably win.