Golf is a game where guts and blind devotion will always net you absolutely nothing but an ulcer.
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 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 science, the study of a lifetime, in which you can exhaust yourself but never your subject.
They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. Golf is more complicated than that.
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 about how well you accept, respond to, and score with your misses much more so than it is a game of your perfect shots.
Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.