Get In The Hole! The 15 Funniest Quotes From Happy Gilmore

Happy Gilmore is a classic sports comedy starring Adam Sandler. Many of its funniest quotes even worked their way into professional golf!

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While Billy Madison was his first starring vehicle after becoming a breakout star on Saturday Night Live, it was Happy Gilmore that made Adam Sandler a really beloved comedy actor.

As a golf comedy, it could’ve easily paled in comparison to other golf-related comedy classics like Caddyshack, but luckily, its absurdist sense of humor, lovable characters, hilarious slapstick gags, and above all, its warm heart made it stand out as a classic in its own right. It’s also one of the most quotable comedies ever made, with a memorable line in every scene.

Updated on June 19th, 2021 by Mark Birrell: When fans think of the funniest lines from all of Adam Sandler’s movies then the best Happy Gilmore quotes often top the list for a number of good reasons. With a great villain, memorable side characters, and Sandler at his most animated, the movie delivers on what audiences love the most about the comedian’s filmography. Whether they be quips, comebacks, or observations about the great game of golf and how to play it better, these funny quotes from Happy Gilmore will likely live on for decades to come.

15 “What? I didn’t break it. I was just testing its durability.”

“What? I didn’t break it. I was just testing its durability. And then I placed it in the woods, because it’s made of wood, and I just thought he should be with his family.”

The central gag at the heart of Happy Gilmore is that the main character takes the stereotypically aggressive attitude of professional hockey to the quiet and well-ordered world of professional golfing, meaning that the eponymous Happy is always breaking rules and even objects in frustration.

When tour’s publication relations director, Virginia Venit, points out that Happy broke a rake on the course, he comedically downplays the incident, showing that he’s not all anger deep down.

14 “Somebody’s closer.”

A lot of what makes Adam Sandler’s comedic performances work so well is his manipulation of his own voice. Whether he’s singing or giving his character a peculiar accent, Sandler is unashamed in how hard he’ll go for the big laughs with even the most simple lines of dialogue.

When mocking his rival, Shooter McGavin, after a more impressive shot, Happy turns to him and points out that his ball is now closer to the hole in a hilariously childish voice.

13 “And you can count – on me waiting for you in the parking lot.”

One of the most memorable characters of Happy Gilmore was Mr. Larson, a former employer of Happy’s who turns up to support him on the golf course. What makes him so memorable is the actor who plays him, the enormous actor Richard Kiel.

Kiel is still most famous for playing the iconic James Bond movie henchman Jaws, who appeared in The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker in the 1970s. So his intimidating stature only makes his quip back to Shooter McGavin sarcastically being impressed that Mr. Larson can count all the funnier.

12 “I was just looking for the other half of this bottle.”

In another example of Happy’s hotheadedness, he gets face to face with Shooter McGavin in a bar and misinterprets Shooter’s more metaphorical fighting talk for actual threats of violence, which Happy doesn’t take lying down.

Virginia breaks up the scuffle before it can actually start and Happy once again downplays the incident, explaining away the weapon in his hand with this humorous line.

11 “You can trouble me for a warm glass of shut-the-hell-up.”

“Now, you will go to sleep or I will put you to sleep. Check out the name tag. You’re in my world now, Grandma.”

Ben Stiller played the nursing home orderly Hal in Happy Gilmore long before he was a movie star. He was uncredited for his appearance, but he was so memorable in the small role that it ended up being one of his best-known characters, even today when he has so many leading roles under his belt.

Hal definitely isn’t a nice character in the movie, as all of his best quotes in the movie show, but he’s always been a firm fan-favorite with Stiller returning to the role in 2020 for Sandler’s movie Hubie Halloween.

10 “If I saw myself in clothes like that, I’d have to kick my own ass.”

Adam Sandler has a way of making angry characters funny and affable in his movies, especially in his early work from the ‘90s. For all intents and purposes, the Billy Madison character is a deeply irresponsible man who shouldn’t be around children, but Sandler makes him lovable.

The Happy Gilmore character is the same. He gets into all kinds of fights on the golf course and his temper costs him a lot of opportunities, but Sandler makes him relatable. Part of this comes from Happy’s insistence on wearing his hockey jersey to the course, defying the traditional fashion of golfing and showing his more down-to-earth side.

9 “Yeah, right, and Grizzly Adams had a beard.”

“Grizzly Adams did have a beard.”

Happy Gilmore features cameo appearances by a bunch of celebrities. One of those celebrities was Lee Trevino, who has long been considered one of the greatest golfers of all time. He has this great line, where he points out how Shooter McGavin’s sarcastic joke doesn’t make sense.

As Trevino points out, in not as many words, McGavin is actually agreeing with Happy when he says, “And Grizzly Adams had a beard,” because Grizzly Adams did have a beard.

8 “It’s all in the hips. It’s all in the hips. It’s all in the hips.”

Despite being one of the most formidable action movie stars of the 1980s, Carl Weathers has carved a niche in absurdist comedy in the past couple of decades. He played himself as a cheapskate obsessed with stew in Arrested Development and he played Happy’s coach, Chubbs Peterson, in this movie, who was a former player who had to retire after his hand was bitten off by an alligator.

As many viewers noticed upon rewatching the movie, the hand belonged to the same arm that Weathers had ripped off by the titular alien in Predator, so there’s another layer to the joke beyond the obvious slapstick. Chubbs’ key lesson, and catchphrase, was about Happy needing to loosen up and realize “it’s all in the hips.”

7 “You’re gonna die, clown!”

As Chubbs tries further to get Happy to learn some patience and control while golfing, the two go to a crazy golf course to work on his weakest part of Happy’s game – his putting.

When Happy gets confronted by a particularly difficult hole featuring a clown statue that keeps blocking his shot, Happy hilariously loses his cool and screams this warcry. The fact that Happy can’t even keep his cool against what is effectively a toy makes his outbursts strangely endearing.

6 “Why don’t you just go home? That’s your home!”

“Are you too good for your home? Answer me!”

In the years since Caddyshack was released and became a comedy classic, a bunch of movies have tried to find the humor in golf. They all learned the wrong lesson from Caddyshack. There is no humor in golf; golf can be used as a subject, but the humor has to come from somewhere else.

Happy Gilmore found that humor in bringing a hockey attitude to the game of golf. That’s exemplified better than ever in this scene where Happy yells at the ball as it stops right next to the hole.

5 “Just stay out of my way or you’ll pay. Listen to what I say.”

“Hey, why don’t I just go and eat some hay? I can lay by the bay. Make things out of clay. I just may. What’d ya say?”

No matter what Shooter McGavin says, Happy Gilmore always has the perfect comeback. And it’s not the generic comeback or the obvious comeback or an insult that takes a cheap shot. He thinks outside the box, as he does here.

McGavin tries to threaten Happy and it unintentionally ends up rhyming, so Happy continues the limerick until McGavin is humiliated away.

4 “Oh, yeah. Lotta pressure. You gotta rise above it.”

“You gotta harness in the good energy, block out the bad.Harness. Energy. Block. Bad. Feel the flow, Happy. Feel it. It’s circular. It’s like a carousel.”

This is a classic example of the kind of useless advice people give to people under a lot of pressure. They give this empty, abstract advice that ultimately means absolutely nothing.

The character who explains the carousel of positive energy to Happy is played hilariously by Kevin Nealon, who was a cast member on Saturday Night Live at the same time as Adam Sandler and has appeared in a lot of his movies.

3 “I eat pieces of s*** like you for breakfast!”

“You eat pieces of s*** for breakfast?”

This quote is so iconic that Kanye West, who is known for referencing movies in his lyrics, included it in the lyrics for his religiously-themed song “Jesus Walks.” It’s one of the most famous and quotable comebacks in the history of comedy movies.

What helps elevate the line to legendary status is the fact that Shooter McGavin is a brilliant villain. He’s the kind of villain fans love to hate, which makes him the perfect villain for a lighthearted comedy movie – he’s not despicable enough to distract from the laughs, but hatable enough to make the audience root for Happy.

2 “Damned alligator just popped up, cut me down on my prime.”

“He got me, but I tore one of that b*****d’s eyes out, though. Look at that.”

One of the most hilarious supporting characters in Happy Gilmore is Carl Weathers’ Chubbs, the coach who trains the title character to imbue accuracy into his powerful swing.

Weathers delivers this monologue about how he lost his hand perfectly, and the prop of the jar containing the alligator’s plucked-out eye provides the perfect visual punchline. Happy even gets the chance to fight the one-eyed alligator that mutilated his friend at one point in the movie.

1 “The price is wrong, b****!”

There’s a lot about the golf world that Happy Gilmore makes fun of, including celebrity golf tours that pair professional golfers with other celebrities. The Price is Right host Bob Barker’s appearance in the movie is one of the funniest and most memorable cameos in film history.

As usual, Happy’s temper gets the best of him and he gets into a fight with Barker, but as it turns out, the iconic game show host is a master martial artist, so he unexpectedly gets the better of Happy. The fight scene is iconic and won the first MTV Movie Award for Best Fight back in 1996.

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