American Golfer Quotes

Tiger Woods

Jack Nicklaus

Arnold Palmer

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Sam Snead

Billy Casper

Lee Trevino

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

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

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

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

You must have a clear mental picture of the correct thing before you can do it successfully.

Alex J. Morrison

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Herbert Warren Wind

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

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.

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

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

On his Caucasian, Black American, American Indian, Thai, and Chinese ancestry:

Growing up, I came up with this name: I'm a "Cablinasian."

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.

I've seen enough crazy shots to know they happen in the best of families.

Even before you step up to the ball, have a full battle plan for the hole worked out.

In my opinion, no young player can develop his or her game to its highest potential if he or she rides around the course in a golf cart.

I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.

You build a golf game like you build a wall, one brick at a time.