The Ultimate Collection of Golf Inspirational Quotes to Elevate Your Game

"The most important shot in golf is the next one."

- Ben Hogan

"Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work."

- Jack Nicklaus

"Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots -- but you have to play the ball where it lies."

- Bobby Jones

"Golf is a matter of confidence. If you think you cannot do it, there’s no chance you will."

- Henry Cotton

"Sometimes the biggest problem is in your head. You’ve got to believe."

- Jack Nicklaus

"I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was."

- Muhammad Ali

"Believe in yourself and have faith in your abilities. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Believe you can and you’re halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Confidence is a characteristic of a positive attitude. The greatest achievers and leaders remain confident regardless of circumstances."

- John Maxwell

"The more I practice, the luckier I get."

- Ted Walsh

"The more I practice the luckier I get."

- Arnold Palmer

"There’s nobody more confident here than me."

- Brooks Koepka

"You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them."

- Michael Jordan

"A good golfer has the determination to win and the patience to wait for the breaks."

- Gary Player

"Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger."

- Arnold Palmer

"No matter how good you are, you can always get better, and that’s the exciting part."

- Tiger Woods

"Visualization is the most powerful thing we have."

- Sir Nick Faldo

"A golfer has to train his swing on the practice tee, then trust it on the course."

- Dr. Bob Rotella

"I always think under par. You have to believe in yourself."

- Sergio Garcia

"The height of your success is determined by the depth of your belief."

- Zig Ziglar

"Winning isn’t everything, but wanting it is."

- Arnold Palmer

"I believe in positive thinking. Believing in yourself."

- Annika Sorenstam

"When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things."

- Joe Namath

"Confidence in golf is being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference."

- Tom Watson

"When you have a lot of confidence and you feel like nobody can beat you it’s game over for everyone else."

- Jason Day

"I smile at obstacles."

- Tiger Woods

"Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf."

- Ben Hogan

"Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can."

- Paul Tournier

"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."

- Arnold Palmer

"The road to success is always under construction."

- Lily Tomlin

"Doubt is the number one cause of missed shots."

- Harvey Penick

"There are only two ways of increasing your distance. You can learn to swing the clubhead faster. Or you can learn to deliver it to the ball more accurately. Unless you are blessed with gifted physical ability from birth. There is no substitute of working harder."

- Jack Nicklaus

"There is no such thing as golfer playing over his head. A hot streak is simply a glimpse of a golfer’s true potential."

- Bobby Jones

"Finding the harmony of the transition, harvest the power from all parts of one’s body to help applying the maximum power to the golf ball. That will only come after learning the right setup and practice."

- Jack Nicklaus

"The basic factor in all good golf is the grip. Get it right, and all other progress follows"

- Tommy Armour

"The best advice I can give is to stay focused on what you're doing and try to ignore all the noise around you."

- Tiger Woods

"A bad attitude is worse than a bad swing."

- Payne Stewart

"A belief system is nothing more than a thought you’ve thought over and over again."

- Wayne W. Dyer

"Of all the hazards, fear is the worst."

- Sam Snead

"You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about."

- Bobby Jones

"The harder you practice, the luckier you get."

- Gary Player

"The harder you work, the luckier you get."

- Gary Player

"The only way to improve is to practice."

- Jack Nicklaus

"I play golf with my friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games."

- Ben Hogan

"Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character."

- Arnold Palmer

"Golf is a game that is played on a course measuring 5 inches between the ears."

- Bobby Jones

"I have a tip that will take five strokes off anyone’s golf game. It’s called an eraser."

- Arnold Palmer

"Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I’ve played the game for 40 years and I still haven’t the slightest idea how to play."

- Gary Player

"Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course - the distance between your ears."

- Bobby Jones

"Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose."

- Winston Churchill

"To have a good chipping game you must aim to hit a spot."

- Johnny Miller

"Nobody ever swing a club too slowly basic factor in all good golf"

- Tommy Armour

"Take dead aim."

- Ernest Jones

"Golf is a game of patience, persistence, and precision."

- Justin Rose

"Golf is a science, the study of a lifetime, in which you can exhaust yourself but never your subject."

- David Forgan

"Golf is a good walk spoiled."

- Mark Twain

"Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies."

- Bobby Jones

"Golf is a compromise between what your ego wants you to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do."

- Bruce Crampton

"Golf is a game of managing imperfection."

- Dr. Bob Rotella

"The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win."

- Phil Mickelson

"Golf is a game of precision, not power."

- Jack Nicklaus

"Golf is not a game of perfect. It's a game of managing imperfection."

- Dr. Bob Rotella

"Golf is a sport that demands perfection, but accepts excellence."

- Ken Venturi

"The real joy of golf is in playing the game for its own sake, not for the score."

- Harvey Penick

"Golf is the closest thing to the game we call life."

- Jack Nicklaus

"Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness."

- William Wordsworth

"If you’re caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron."

- Lee Trevino

"To find a man’s true character, play golf with him."

- P.G. Wodehouse

"They call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken."

- Ray Floyd

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

- A.A. Milne

"If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play it, it’s recreation. But if you work at it, it’s golf."

- Bob Hope

"Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot."

- Sam Snead

"Happiness is a long walk with a putter."

- Greg Norman

"Golf is the most fun you can have without taking your clothes off."

- Chi Chi Rodriguez

"The older I get, the better I used to be."

- Lee Trevino

"Golf and sex are about the only two things you can enjoy even if you’re not good at them."

- Roy McAvoy, Tin Cup

"Smaller guys can hit the golf balls as long as the larger guys by generating similar club head speed. But, what a price must be paid. To perform at the same level as a larger athlete, the smaller frame will be taxed heavily. Most will not enjoy a healthy twilight years."

- Dr. Bob Rotella

"Don’t play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty."

- Harry Vardon

"Of course I talk to myself. Sometimes I need an expert opinion."

- Carl Spackler, Caddyshack

"Cinderella story. Outta nowhere."

- Carl Spackler, Caddyshack

"Former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac... It's in the hole! It's in the hole! It's in the hole."

- Carl Spackler, Caddyshack

"Golf is not just exercise; it's an adventure, a romance...a Shakespeare play in which disaster and comedy are intertwined."

- Harold Segall

"Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a grateful result."

- Tommy Armour

"The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things."

- John Updike

"Golf is the only game where the ball doesn't move, and you do."

- Frank Beard

"Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I’ve played the game for 50 years and I still haven’t the slightest idea of how to play."

- Gary Player

"Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated."

- Arnold Palmer

"Gambling is illegal at Bushwood sir, and I never slice."

- Judge Smails, Caddyshack

"If you drink, don’t drive. Don’t even putt."

- Dean Martin

"These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow."

- Sam Snead

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

- Sam Snead

"High expectations are the key to everything."

"Confidence comes naturally with success. But success comes only to those who are confident."

"When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt."

"If by nature you do things quickly, or slowly, you are going to swing the golf club basically the same way. Forcing yourself to the opposite extreme is rarely going to work because it’s too contrary to your basic instincts or impulses - especially when you are under competitive pressure."

"In golf as in life, it is the follow-through that makes the difference."