Golf Ball Quotes

If I can hit a curveball, why can't I hit a ball that is standing still on a course? — Larry Nelson

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. — Jack Lemmon

One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green. — John Gunther

I've lost balls in every hazard and on every course I've tried. But when I lose a ball in the ball washer, it's time to take stock. — Milt Gross

Hitting the ball is the fun part of it, but the fewer times you hit the ball the more fun you have. — Lou Graham

When I was playing football, I always felt in complete control. When I play golf and come under pressure, it's a completely different ball game. — Alan Hansen

A golf ball is like a clock. Always hit it at 6 o'clock and make it go toward 12 o'clock. But make sure you're in the same time zone. — Chi Chi Rodriguez

I have a random array of ball markers in my bag and don't use any specific one. Many are the plastic kind you find at almost any golf course. — Matt Kuchar

Because of the suit I was wearing, I couldn't make a good pivot on the swing. And I had to hit the ball with one hand. — Alan Shepard

Everyone wants to be known as a great striker of the ball for some reason. Nobody wants to be called a lucky, one-putting s.o.b. — Gary Player

My old friend Jack Benny has only had one ball all his golfing life. And now he's lost it. The string came off! — Bob Hope

A golfer should never make a mental mistake because the ball is just sitting there waiting for you to hit it. — Tiger Woods

It does look like a very good exercise. But what is the little white ball for? — Ulysses S. Grant

It's so bad I could putt off a tabletop and still leave the ball halfway down the leg. — J. C. Snead

If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots. — Vijay Singh

Plausible that a professional pitcher with some time to practice could throw a golf ball faster than a baseball. — Randall Munroe

Her favorite game was golf because its essential principles consisted of a stick, a small ball, and a state of mind. — Harper Lee

I get pissed off. I simply do not understand someone who hits a ball that lands behind a tree and can look at it and say, "Well, that's golf". — Simon Hobday

I'm a great believer that if you don't get the ball to the hole, it won't go in. — Colin Montgomerie

Go play golf. Go to the golf course. Hit the ball. Find the ball. Repeat until the ball is in the hole. Have fun. The end. — Chuck Hogan

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose — Winston S. Churchill

I realize that's why we play golf, to hit the ball into the hole. But it is a strange feeling when you hit the shot and it actually goes in. — Hollis Stacy

The ball retriever is not long enough to get my putter out of the tree. — Brian Weiss

Jenny can still suck a golf ball through a garden hose and she guns my cock like a champ since she misplaced her false teeth! — Tara Sivec

One of the advantages bowling has over golf is that you seldom lose a bowling ball. — Don Carter

He hits the ball 130 yards and his jewelry goes 150. — Bob Hope

Hit the ball up to the hole ... You meet a better class of people up there. — Ben Hogan

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. — Woodrow Wilson

Journalism is a team sport. Writing novels is golf: it's you and the ball. — Pete Hamill

The best part about golf is when you hit the ball long. It feels really good. — Michelle Wie

Golf never ceases to be a challenge, even when it really is just you and the ball out there and nobody else. — Arnold Palmer

Don't be in such a hurry. That little white ball isn't going to run away from you. — Patty Berg

The putter looks like a bunch of nuts and bolts welded together, but the ball goes in the hole. — Julius Boros

her sensor package could track a golf ball and hit it with a torpedo from half the solar system away." "Oh, — James S.A. Corey

Try to think where you want to put the ball, not where you don't want it to go. — Billy Casper

I haven't looked for a golf ball since mulligans were free, which was a law I passed in 1995. — Dan Jenkins

Golf is golf. You hit the ball, you go find it. Then you hit it again. — Lon Hinkle

You've just one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you've hit it. — Sam Snead

The best putting advice I ever received was make sure you concentrate real hard on keeping that darn ball real low — Chi Chi Rodriguez

I had a wonderful experience on the golf course today. I had a hole in nothing. Missed the ball and sank the divot. — Don Adams

I've come to realize that I perform best when I'm letting my subconscious mind hit the ball and my conscious mind is otherwise occupied. — Al Geiberger

It's about hitting the ball in the center of the club face and hitting it hard. — Bubba Watson

I didn't miss the putt. I made the putt. The ball missed the hole. — Peter Jacobsen

Some golfers blast their ball from traps, With one adroit explosion, But others, out in ten perhaps, Depend upon erosion. — Richard Armour

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it. — Rogers Hornsby

In my retirement I go for a short swim at least once or twice every day. It's either that or buy a new golf ball. — Gene Perret

Talking to a golf ball won't do you any good, unless you do it while your opponent is teeing off. — Bruce Lansky

When I swing at a golf ball right, my mind is blank and my body is loose as a goose. — Sam Snead

He's in the mold of a Tom Watson, in that he'll hit the ball in the trees and undaunted go it there, flail it out and make something out of it. — Gary McCord

You can't lose an old golf ball. — John A. Willis

What's the point of washing off your ball when teeing off on a water hole? — Bruce Lansky

Bad putting is due more to the effect the green has upon the player than it has upon the action of the ball. — Bobby Jones

I could have rolled the ball up there against Musial, and he would have pulled out a golf club and hit it out. — Don Newcombe

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

Hole in One: an occurence in which a ball is hit directly from the tee into the hole in a single shot by a golfer playing alone. — Henry Beard

I always like to see a person stand up to a golf ball as though he were perfectly at home in its presence. — Bobby Jones

I did not see the sense in chasing a little white ball around a field. — Calvin Coolidge

By the time a man can afford to lose a golf ball, he can't hit that far. — Jacob Braude

Few golfers are born with the natural talent for hitting the ball, but every player is blessed with the God-given ability to throw a club. — Henry Beard

When you're having trouble and topping the ball, it means the ground is moving on you. — Chi Chi Rodriguez

This new baseball is like a golf ball. I think there are going to be a lot more dents put in the wall at Fenway Park this year. — Don Zimmer

If he slices the budget like he slices a golf ball, the nation has nothing to worry about. — Bob Hope

For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball. — Dave Barry

May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters. — Ben Hogan

I didn't hit the ball like I was 46. But I putted like I was 66. — Fred Couples

The most advanced medical brains in the universe have yet to discover a way for a man to relax himself, and looking at a golf ball is not the cure. — Milt Gross

You're the only one in control over your golf ball. It's not like tennis: you're hitting a shot and somebody's hitting it back at you. — Lee Westwood

Out here, it's just you and the ball. — Mike Weir

Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes. — Hayley Mills

When I'm swinging well, nobody hits the golf ball any better than I do. — David Duval

My caddie dared me to try it, but I didn't think it was worth losing a ball. — Ian Woosnam

I never kick my ball in the rough or improve my lie in a sand trap. For that I have a caddie. — Bob Hope

You get no points for style when it comes to putting. It's getting the ball to drop into the cup that counts. — Laurie Auchterlonie

Golf. Trying to knock a tiny ball into an even smaller hole with implements ill suited to the purpose. — Winston Churchill

I don't mind when I hit a ball in the woods. I think of it as an adventure. That's when golf really starts to get interesting. — Michelle Wie

He told me just to keep the ball low. — Chi Chi Rodriguez

I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to hit a golf ball. — Dennis Quaid

A ball will always come to rest halfway down a hill, unless there is sand or water at the bottom. — Henry Beard

I'm still no good at ball-and-stick games. If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke. — Neil Peart

Follow through: The part of the swing that takes place after the ball has been hit, but before the club has been thrown. — Henry Beard

I still swing the way I used to, but when I look up the ball is going in a different direction. — Lee Trevino

One thing I've learned over time is, if you hit a golf ball into water, it won't float. — Arnold Palmer

I carry a golf ball to put under my feet when they get tight, and a Thera-Band for general stretching. — Jessica Ennis

Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf. — Ben Hogan

The smaller the ball used in the sport, the better the book. — George Plimpton

The best advice I can give for playing a ball out of water is - don't. — Tony Lema

Got more dirt than ball. Here we go again. — Alan Shepard

The golf ball has no sense at all, which is why it has to be given stern lectures constantly, especially during the act of putting. — Dan Jenkins

Through the ball we are all the same. We just have different ways of getting it there. — Charles Coody

If he takes the option of dropping behind the point where the ball rests, keeping in line with the pin, his nearest drop is Honolulu. — Jimmy Demaret