Quotes & Sayings About Caddies

Caddies are a breed of their own. If you shoot 66, they say, "Man, we shot 66!" But go out and shoot 77, and they say "Hell, he shot 77!" — Lee Trevino

There was a time when caddies couldn't wear shorts. — Dan Jenkins

If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably be a caddie today. — George Archer

When I push, the top part of the leg goes ahead of the bottom part, and you can hear a big plonk when it comes back. My caddie said 'What the hell was that?! — Jean Van De Velde

Don't worry about your caddie. He may be an irritating little wretch, but for eighteen holes he is your caddie. — Arnold Haultain

Golf's really fun in Japan because of the women caddies ... I saw one guy start out playing alone with his caddie. By the 9th hole they were engaged and when they finished on 18 they had a foursome. — Bob Hope

If a caddie can help you, you don't know how to play golf. — Dan Jenkins

Then Lee Trevino and Jack Nicklaus come in. I'll caddie for Jack. — Chi Chi Rodriguez

I try to respect everybody out here: players, caddies, fans, media. — Phil Mickelson

According to the Captain of The Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, striking your opponent or caddie at St Andrews, Hoylake or Westward Ho! meant that you lost the hole, except on medal days when it counted as a rub of the green. — Herbert Wind

The life of a professional golfer is precarious at best. Win, and they carry you to the clubhouse on their shoulders. Lose, and you pay the caddies in the dark. — Gene Sarazen

I played a practice round with Hubert [Green] the other day, and when we got to the ninth green, I heard a fan say, "Why does Hubert have two caddies?" — Ken Green

I don't know why that putt hung on the edge. I'm a clean liver. It must be my caddie. — JoAnne Carner

All my life I had a rapport with black caddies. — Lee Trevino

My horse was in the lead, coming down the home stretch, but the caddie fell off. — Samuel Goldwyn

It was a great honour to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. I didn't know they had a caddie division. — Bob Hope

Probably the best caddies are the smartest ones and the ones that are switched on mentally more than some of the others maybe. — Lee Westwood

Once when I'd been in a lot of bunkers, my caddie told me he was getting blisters from raking so much. — JoAnne Carner

The only time I talk on the golf course is to my caddie. And then only to complain when he gives me the wrong club. — Seve Ballesteros

His guests found it fun to watch him make tea
mixing careful spoonfuls from different caddies. — James Hilton

I love baseball, but being here (in the United States), I've been able to play golf every day. I can't play in Japan because every course has caddies, and the caddies all want autographs and don't want to let me golf. — Ichiro Suzuki

If it were possible for a metaphysician to be a golfer, he might perhaps occasionally notice that his ball, instead of moving forward in a vertical plane (like the generality of projectiles, such as brickbats and cricket balls), skewed away gradually to the right. If he did notice it, his methods would naturally lead him to content himself with his caddies's remark-'ye heeled that yin,' or 'Ye jist sliced it.' ... But a scientific man is not to be put off with such flimsy verbiage as that. He must know more. What is 'Heeling', what is 'slicing', and why would either operation (if it could be thoroughly carried out) send a ball as if to cover point, thence to long slip, and finally behind back-stop? These, as Falstaff said, are 'questions to be asked. — Peter Guthrie Tait

Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves. — Calvin Peete

Make friends with your caddie and the game will make friends with you. — Stephen Potter

A man can never have too many books. Neither can he have too many fountain pens, hats, fishing rods, waistcoats, tea caddies, paintings or whatever helps him to feel at home in his surroundings and communicate his personality to the world. — Fennel Hudson