Inspiring Golf

"It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course." - Hank Aaron
"Although Golf was originally restricted to wealthy Protestants, today its open to anybody who owns hideous clothing." - Dave Barry
"I go into the locker room and find a corner and just sit there. I try to achieve a peaceful state of nothingness that will carry over onto the golf course. If I can get that feeling of quiet and obliviousness within myself, I feel I can't lose." - Jane Blalock
"Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?" - Al Boliska
"Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose." - Winston Churchill
"I throw a ball and get paid for it. Others do it by throwing the bull." - Jerome Dean
"If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out." - Paul Gallico
"Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behavior not otherwise excusable." - A. P. Herbert
"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
"A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting." - Billy Joel
"Magellan went around the world in 1521, which is not too many strokes when you consider the distance." - Joe Laurie Jr.
"If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball." - Jack Lemmon
"Drive for show, but putt for dough." - Bobby Locke
"The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better." - Nancy Lopez
"I used to get out there and have a thousand swing thoughts. Now I try not to have any." - Davis III Love
"Golf is the pursuit of the infinite." - Jim Murray
"Aggressive play is a vital asset of the world's greatest golfers. However, it's even more important to the average player. Attack this game in a bold, confident, and determined way, and you'll make a giant leap toward realizing your full potential as a player." - Greg Norman
"All is fair in love and golf." - American Proverb
"Anyone who likes golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens." - Andy Rooney
"Golf is a fine relief from the tensions of office, but we are a little tired of holding the bag." - Adlai E. Stevenson
"When I joined the Tour I studied the best players to see what they did that I didn't do. I came to the conclusion that the successful players had the Three Cs: Confidence, Composure, Concentration." - Bob Toski
"Golf is a good walk spoiled." - Mark Twain
"Life is a game but golf is serious." - Source Unknown
"In golf as in life it is the follow through that makes the difference." - Source Unknown
"A day spent in a round of strenuous idleness." - William Wordsworth