Golfer Quotes

Tiger Woods

Jack Nicklaus

Arnold Palmer

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Harry Vardon

Annika Sörenstam

Gary Player

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

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

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

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

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

Do not be tempted to invest in a sample of each golfing invention as soon as it makes its appearance. If you do, you will only complicate and spoil your game - and encumber your locker with useless rubbish.

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.

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

Herbert Warren Wind

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.

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

Alex J. Morrison

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'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

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

Jeev Milkha Singh