Golf Putting Quotes

When you lip out several putts in a row, you should never think that means that you're putting well. When you're putting well, the only question is what part of the hole it's going to fall in, not if it's going in.

A tap-in is a putt that is short enough to be missed one-handed.

Never concede the putt that beats you.

A good player who is a great putter is a match for any golfer. A great hitter who cannot putt is a match for no one.

Golf is the hardest game in the world. There is no way you can ever get it. Just when you think you do, the game jumps up and puts you in your place.

No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.

This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.

Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money.

It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.

Half of golf is fun; the other half is putting.

There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.

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

I never pray to God to make a putt. I pray to God to help me react good if I miss a putt.

I'm not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they'd come up sliced.

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

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

I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.

Putting allows the touchy golfer two to four opportunities to blow a gasket in the short space of two to forty feet.

Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt.

You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

Never break your putter and your driver in the same round or you're dead.

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.

Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

My favorite shots are the practice swing and the conceded putt. The rest can never be mastered.

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

The harder you work, the luckier you become.

The better your attitude and the harder you work, the luckier you get.

My father's saying, The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get.

The most important shot in golf is the next one.

While playing golf today, I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.

The more I practice, the luckier I get.

The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top.

If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.

I've heard people say putting is 50 percent technique and 50 percent mental. I really believe it is 50 percent technique and 90 percent positive thinking, see, but that adds up to 140 percent, which is why nobody is 100 percent sure how to putt.

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.