Popular Golf Quotes and Lessons

Based on precision and concentration, golf is a game enjoyed all over the world by many individuals as a profession and a hobby. We thought you might find the following selection of quotes and lessons of interest:

• You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about. – Bobby Jones

• It’s a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get. – Arnold Palmer

• I don’t like the glamour. I just like the game. – Ben Hogan

• Golf is a fascinating game. It has taken me nearly 40 years to discover that I can’t play it. – Ted Ray

• Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players’ minds the next time out. – Sam Snead

• Nobody ever remembers who finished second at anything. – Jack Nicklaus

• Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots – but you have to play the ball where it lies.  – Bobby Jones

• I’ve always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that i didn’t have a chance to win. – Arnold Palmer

• If there is one thing I have learned during my years as a professional, it is that the only thing constant about golf is its inconstancy.  – Jack Nicklaus

• It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.  – Bobby Jones

• 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