Florence King Quotes

[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization.

You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think.

I've always tried to play golf with a golf club. I have a hard time driving with my rifle. I mean, 18 is really narrow ... I have no problem with the course, except for the tee shot on 18.

Golf: The most ... perfect expression of National Stupidity.

Golf is the most fun you can have with out taking your clothes off.

Golf - a young man's vice and an old man's penance.

Go play golf. Go to the golf course. Hit the ball. Find the ball. Repeat until the ball is in the hole. Have fun. The end.

Golf is a game where guts and blind devotion will always net you absolutely nothing but an ulcer.

I wish someone had put a golf club in my hands, not skates on my feet. It is a really great game for business. It's a great game for making connections.

Fortunately, I can play a lot of golf with my job.

I realize that's why we play golf, to hit the ball into the hole. But it is a strange feeling when you hit the shot and it actually goes in.

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course

I don't fear death, but I sure don't like those three-footers for par.

Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.

Golf is an indispensable adjunct to high civilisation.

It was a morning when all nature shouted Fore! The breeze, as it blew gently up from the valley, seemed to bring a message of hope and cheer, whispering of chip shots holed and brassies landing squarely on the meat. The fairway, as yet unscarred by the irons of a hundred dubs, smiled greenly up at the azure sky.

I went to play golf and tried to shoot my age, but I shot my weight instead.

Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.

Golf is the Great Mystery. Like some capricous goddess, it bestows its favours with what would appear an almost fat-headed lack of method and discrimination. On every side we see big two-fisted he-men floundering round in three figures, stopping every few minutes to let through little shrimps with knock-knees and hollow cheeks, who are tearing up snappy seventy-fours.

[Golfers] are a special kind of moral realist who nips the normal romantic and idealistic yearnings in the bud by proving once or twice a week that life is unconquerable but endurable.

My golf-loving friend Bob Hope asked me what my handicap was, so I told him - the Congress.

How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?

Golf is a weird sport. Some days you got it. Some days you don't.

Sometimes, I play a round of extremely poor golf.

Golf's a great game, and you meet a lot of people along the way.