Natalie Portman Quotes

I play golf - even though I'm awful at it.

I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance my left ear is from my right.

Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.

We didn't get along, me and Bill Murray. But I've got to give it to him: I don't like him, but he makes me laugh even now. I'm also jealous that he's a better golfer than I am.

Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble.

I'm still no good at ball-and-stick games. If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke.

My short game's not that good. It just becomes a matter of getting that weight moving.

You drive for show but putt for dough.

Thank you... fantasy football draft, for letting me know that even in my fantasies, I am bad at sports.

Jimmy Fallon and I play regularly at the Bayonne Golf Club in Jersey. He's eighteen holes of fun. Any time we play he has moments of brilliance, but also moments of utter catastrophe.

Whenever I walk off the golf course, I thank God that I'm able to tell a joke. I thank God I'm good at something.

I think my putting could be better, my short game.

I'm hitting it better than last year. The putting is getting close now, too.

It's like Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy had a baby, and I was it. I've got Rory's length, and I'm hoping that I've got Jordan's touch.

I've got a lot more control with my wedges.

Pretty early, when I started playing golf, I was compared to Garfield Sobers, who played both cricket and golf.

I've always been a good ball-striker, but if you're not a great putter, you're not going to win a lot.

I love to hit my little five- to 10-yard cut, and that's what I try to do. And I think that's kind of been my game.

In golf, driving is a game of free-swinging muscle control, while putting is something like performing eye surgery and using a bread knife for a scalpel.

I was lying ten and had a thirty-five foot putt. I whispered over my shoulder: "How does this one break?" And my caddie said, "Who cares?"

Ninety percent of putts that are short, don't go in.

I hit the ball really well... had a lot of good looks at birdie all day, it's firm but you could control your golf ball, for sure. Today I controlled my ball very well. The confidence is definitely there. I feel really good about where I'm at and going into tomorrow.

For years, I never thought I needed a short game. Finally I just decided to do something about it. I needed to get up and down from tough spots on the par-5s for my birdies. So I went to Phil [Rogers]. He's the best. For the last couple weeks, Phil has been staying at my house and we've been practicing in the evening.

My game is like a cross between karaoke and rap: crap.

I didn't hit the ball like I was 46. But I putted like I was 66.