18 Favorite Golf Quotes

Below are 18 of my favorite golf-related quotes of all time. Most are reprinted courtesy of Thinkexist.com. Enjoy!

1. “The harder you work, the luckier you get.” -- Gary Player
2. “I've spent most of my life golfing - the rest I've just wasted” -- unknown
3. “There's no game like golf: you go out with three friends, play eighteen holes, and return with three enemies” -- unknown
4. “When I die, bury me on the golf course so my husband will visit” -- unknown
5. "If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death." -- Sam Snead
6. “Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.” -- Jack Nicklaus
7. “It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.” -- Mark Twain
8. “An interesting thing about golf is that no matter how badly you play, it is always possible to get worse” -- Arnold Palmer
9. "Greatness courts failure" -- Roy McAvoy
10. "Sometimes par is good enough to win" -- Romeo Posar
11. “Golf can best be defined as an endless series of tragedies obscured by the occasional miracle” -- unknown
12. “Golf is Life. If you can't take golf, you can't take life.” -- unknown
13. “You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.” -- Walter Hagan
14. “If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.” -- Lee Trevino
15. “Golf is not a game of great shots. It's a game of the most misses. The people who win make the smallest mistakes.” -- Gene Littler
16. “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
17. "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
18. “Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.” -- Arnold Palmer