Quotes of Golf - somelinesforyou

“ The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. ”

- Bob Hope

“ Golf isn't a game, it's a choice that one makes with one's life. ”

- Charles Rosin

“ There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand. ”

- Charles Rosin

“ Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. ”

- Dave Barry

“ It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at. ”

- Jimmy Demaret

“ The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. ”

- Will Rogers

“ Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at. ”

- Jimmy Demaret

“ If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. ”

- Bob Hope

“ Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. ”

- Dave Barry

“ I have a tip that can take five strokes off anyone's golf game: it's called an eraser. ”

- Arnold Palmer

“ Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. ”

- Hank Aaron

“ 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

“ Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. ”

- Woodrow Wilson

“ I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love. ”

- Tiger Woods

“ 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

“ 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

“ They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. Golf is more complicated than that. ”

- Gardner Dickinson

“ The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. ”

- G.K. Chesterton

“ The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr. ”

- Will Rogers

“ Golf isn't a game, it's a choice that one makes with one's life. ”

- Charles Rosin

“ I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators. ”

- Gerald Ford

“ It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification. ”

- Bruce McCall

“ If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death. ”

- Sam Snead

“ If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out. ”

- Paul Gallico

“ Golf is like a love affair. If you don't take it seriously, it's no fun; if you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart. ”

- Arthur Daley

“ Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious. ”

- P.G. Wodehouse
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