Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort. ~Abba Eban

It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. ~Hank Aaron, 1971

Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.
- Johnny Miller

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they’d starve to death. ~Sam Snead

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. ~William Wordsworth

Golf is a game in which you yell “fore,” shoot six, and write down five. ~ Paul Harvey

Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.
- Johnny Miller

Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air. ~Jack Benny

Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards? ~ Al Boliska

Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything. ~Michael Bamberger

One of the most fascinating things about golf is how it reflects the cycle of life. No matter what you shoot - the next day you have to go back to the first tee and begin all over again and make yourself into something. ~Peter Jacobsen

You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life. ~Grantland Rice

“Talking to a golf ball won’t do you any good. Unless you do it while your opponent is teeing off.” -Bruce Lansky

“If you think it’s hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.” -Jack Lemmon

“When I’m on a golf course and it starts to rain and lightning, I hold up my one iron, ‘caus I know even God can’t hit a one iron.” -Lee Trevino