Golf is about how well you accept, respond to, and score with your misses much more so than it is a game of your perfect shots.
Golf is not a game of great shots. It’s a game of the most misses. The people who win make the smallest mistakes.
Golf is a game where the ball lies poorly and the players well.
The most important shot in golf is the next one.
Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.
Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 50 years and I still haven't the slightest idea of how to play.
Golf is not a game, it's bondage. It was obviously devised by a man torn with guilt, eager to atone for his sins.

The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
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.
Golf is a compromise between what your ego wants you to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.
The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.

Golf is a game in which you yell 'fore,' shoot six, and write down five.

The most important shot in golf is the one you're about to play.
Golf, like the measles, should be caught young.

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.
I never learned anything from a match that I won.
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.