Golf Obsession Quotes

Every rock'n'roll band I know, guys with long hair and tattoos, plays golf now.

A good golf course makes you want to play so badly that you hardly have the time to change your shoes.

Besides good schools, a good airport, and the Cowboys, Dallas had golf courses, and golf was fast becoming an obsession with me.

Al Sharpton chases the spotlight the way Obama chases golf balls

I adore the game of golf. I won't ever retire.

Golf and women are a lot alike. You know you are not going to wind up with anything but grief, but you can't resist the impulse.

When I first left the Eagles, I said, 'That's it. I'm going to play golf.' After 10 days, it was like... there has to be more to life! I can still swing a golf club, and don't forget, Les Paul played until he literally passed away.

I'm a golfaholic. And all the counseling in the world wouldn't help me.

He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes to its maximum only to the man who has given up golf.

I do not think I could go on living unless I felt that one day I might win the Open Championship at St. Andrews.

It's a marriage. If I had to choose between my wife and my putter, well, I'd miss her.

I've taken up golf... or golf has taken me up.

I watch a lot of golf, but I'm only a fair-weather player.

I don't want to coach too far into my 60s. By then, I'll be playing golf four or five times a week.

When human beings stop progressing at an endeavor, they stop enjoying it and move on to something else. Not golfers. Masochists, all of them.

I'm now unemployed. It's a weird feeling with no work, but at least there's still golf. Standup comedy is like my core, it's what I do. But I want to be a pro golfer. It's a love/hate relationship with golf. I can come away feeling so serene, and yet, it's the thing that I can let get to me to throw a club and say curses that don't even exist. I'm obsessed with something that won't let me master it. I don't know. I need therapy.

Not even Barbra Streisand celebrates herself as tirelessly as golf celebrates itself.

Instead of playing with army men or whatever, I played golf, like for hours every day.

I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.

I love to be at Topeka Country Club. It's where I grew up. That's one course I'd play every day.

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

I played a lot of other sports at school and just one day the golf bug bit me and I started playing serious golf from when I was ten years old.

The Japanese eat, sleep, and breathe golf; the only thing they don't do is actually play it, because to get on a course, you have to make a reservation roughly 137 years in advance, which means that by the time you actually get to the first tee you are deceased. Of course, in golf this is not really a handicap.

To me, the [British] Open is the tournament I would come to if I had to leave a month before and swim over.

I can't give up Golf, I've got too many sweaters.