Robert Harris Quotes

I never played a round when I didn't learn something new about the game.

Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?

Name me one golfer that doesn't get frustrated.

Practice, work out, proper nutrition, lots of work on my short game. In golf, that's really where the strokes come off the scorecard.

Golf is not, and never has been, a fair game.

That was a great game of golf, fellers.

The only times you touch the ball with your hand are when you tee it up and when you pick it out of the cup. The hell with television towers and cables and burrowing animals and the thousand and one things that are referred to as 'not part of the golf course'. If you hit the ball off the fairway, you play it from there.

I talk to golfers, I talk to my grand kids about their game, and tell them to develop a system, Now, when they're young. And if they develop that system, it will be the crutch they need to be good. To know that system and make it work for you, know what it is and make it work.

I really want to thank Annika Sorenstam. She helped me a lot about my game, about the mentals, and she told me go step by step.

If my golf game was a prize fight, they'd stop it.

If we are to preserve the integrity of golf as left to us by our forefathers, it is up to all of us to carry on the true spirit of the game.

In golf your strengths and weaknesses will always be there. If you could improve your weaknesses, you would improve your game. The irony is that people prefer to practice their strengths.

I never kick my ball in the rough or improve my lie in a sand trap. For that I have a caddie.

After years of patient study (and with cricket there can be no other kind), I have decided that there is nothing wrong with the game that the introduction of golf carts wouldn't fix in a hurry.

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

We've got to abide by the rules. We have to protect it. The game of golf at a professional level is so clean. We are our own judge, jury and executioner. If we don't do what we think is right, the game might get away from us.

Golf is the only game in which a precise knowledge of the rules can earn one a reputation for bad sportsmanship.

I think baseball has moved on in many ways and the focus on the competitions on the field is really what the game is all about. It seems to be healthy. It seems more people are watching it.

I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.

I'm searching for the perfect swing. I'm searching for something that's not there. I tried twetny different things today and nobody else out there would have done that. This game is too tough. If I'd have known, I'd have taken up tennis or something. I have a chance. But if you're a betting guy don't bet on me.

One of the worst mistakes you can make in golf is trying to force the game.

Oakmont, you've got to be playing slope.

Think ahead. Golf is a next-shot game.

I like golf because you can be really terrible at it, and still not look much dorkier than anybody else.

I understand golf is a game, and I've never treated it as anything else. Family is something that's very special, and so they all contributed to the room. They all contributed to what my life was, my career was.