Golf Game Quotes - Page 2

• No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why golf is the greatest of games. You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Men, Games

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• I'm not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they'd come up sliced.

  Lee Trevino

  Dirty, Golf, Games

  Quoted in Scholastic Coach,'Coaches' Corner', Dec 1982.

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• I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Games, Strokes

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• It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.

  Bobby Jones

  Passion, Golf, Games

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• One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after year with faults we had discovered and corrected time and again.

  Bobby Jones

  Struggle, Golf, Years

  Bobby Jones (1966). “Bobby Jones on Golf”, Main Street Books

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• For this game you need, above all things, to be in a tranquil frame of mind.

  Harry Vardon

  Golf, Games, Mind

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• Golf is a game where white men can dress up as black pimps and get away with it.

  Robin Williams

  Golf, Men, White Man

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

  Ben Hogan

  Home, Golf, Games

  Ben Hogan (1985). “Ben Hogan's Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behaviour not otherwise excusable.

  A. P. Herbert

  Golf, Men, Games

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• Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life not to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy.

  Amy Alcott

  Life, Stress, Golf

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• It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification.

  Bruce McCall

  Dream, Golf, Self

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• No game designed to be played with the aid of personal servants by right-handed men who can't even bring along their dogs can be entirely good for the soul.

  Bruce McCall

  Dog, Golf, Men

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• Golf is a better game played downhill.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Games, Funny Golf

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• I don't like the glamour. I just like the game.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Games, Glamour

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

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Games, Something New

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• Golf is just a game - and an idiotic game most of the time.

  Mark Calcavecchia

  Golf, Games, Idiotic

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• No matter what happens - never give up a hole....In tossing in your cards after a bad beginning you also undermine your whole game, because to quit between tee and green is more habit-forming than drinking a highball before breakfast.

  Sam Snead

  Giving Up, Drinking, Golf

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• Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.

  Amy Alcott

  Spiritual, Golf, Games

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• Golf isn't a game, it's a choice that one makes with one's life.

  Charles Rosin

  Golf, Games, Choices

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• The biggest liar in the world is the golfer who claims he plays the game for exercise.

  Tommy Bolt

  Funny, Liars, Humorous

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• I've said a thousand times, you can't go into a shop and buy a good golf game.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Games, Shops

  "The lessons I've learned: better golf the Sam Snead way".

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• It's so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying "Shhh" and not moving a muscle. Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.

  Al McGuire

  Moving, Kids, Golf

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• 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, Years, Games

  "The Gigantic Book of Golf Quotations". Book edited by Jim Apfelbaum, 2007.

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• Any game where a man 60 can beat a man 30 ain't no game.

  Burt Shotton

  Golf, Men, Games

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• The game has such a hold on golfers because they compete not only against an opponent, but also against the course, against par, and most surely- against themselves.

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Games, Opponents

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