Golf Course Quotes - Page 3

• I have been attempting to meditate more. Golf is my state of peace, though. The tranquility of a golf course, all of the trees, the oxygen. It puts me right at ease.

  Mpho Koaho

  Golf, Oxygen, Tree

  "Actor Mpho Koaho: The vulnerable nature of acting, investing in youth programs". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Sometimes things work out on the golf course and sometimes they don't. Life will go on. You try to understand what happens, but maybe today I don't want to know. I just screwed up so maybe I should just put it behind me.

  Greg Norman

  Mistake, Golf, Work Out

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• I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you're working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn't dream of interrupting on the golf course.

  Harper Lee

  Dream, Coffee, Home

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• I love to crunch numbers. I look at how many fairways I hit, how many greens I hit. I plan my way around the golf course.

  Annika Sorenstam

  Golf, Numbers, Looks

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• Golf is a game that needlessly prolongs the lives of some of our most useless citizens.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Hope, Golf

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• Rhythm and timing are the two things which we all must have, yet no one knows how to teach either.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Two, Timing

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• Golf is a better game played downhill.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Games, Funny Golf

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• Many shots are spoiled at the last instant by efforts to add a few more yards.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Effort, Yards

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• I started playing golf when I was a kid, because across the street from where we lived there was a little nine-hole golf course where my father worked.

  Lewis Black

  Father, Kids, Golf

  "Lewis Black on the things he'll always love". Interview with David Wolinsky, www.avclub.com. February 15, 2010.

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• I love design in general, the creativity. Whether it is golf courses, my apparel line, ads we do or our business with AriZona, design is fun.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Fun, Creativity, Golf

  "Arizona 20 Years: Jack Nicklaus". Interview with Miguel Enamorado, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2012.

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• A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Player, Thinking

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• Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Ohio, Design

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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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• I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Beach, Golf, Thinking

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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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• In order to win, you must play your best golf when you need it most, and play your sloppy stuff when you can afford it. I shall not attempt to explain how you achieve this happy timing.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Winning, Order

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• Irish gardens beat all for horror. With 19 gardeners, Lord Talbot of Malahide has produced an affair exactly like a suburban golf course.

  Nancy Mitford

  Nature, Golf, Garden

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• When you did the job, you thought you were just trying to amuse your friends who are all on the job. I'm just trying to make the sound guy laugh, the script supervisor. A movie like Caddyshack, I can walk on a golf course and some guy will be screaming entire scenes at me and expecting me to do it word for word with him. It's like, 'Fella, I did that once. I improvised that scene. I don't remember how it goes'. But I'm charmed by it. I'm not like, 'Hey, knock it off'. It's kind of cool.

  Bill Murray

  Jobs, Golf, Laughing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I'm on the course and lightning starts, I get inside fast. If God wants to play through, let him.

  Bob Hope

  Dirty, Golf, Play

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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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• A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Golf, Clubs

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• The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.

  Pablo Picasso

  Golf, Wind, Getting Older

  "International Herald Tribune" Newspaper (Paris), February 28, 1990.

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• Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Management, Talent

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• This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Winning, Games

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• I admire a lot of people, but in terms of sport I've always loved the mentality of Tiger Woods on a golf course. I always love his eyes when he's setting himself and focusing on his decision; he has a really strong, focused face and believes that he can make the shot.

  Rafael Nadal

  Sports, Strong, Believe

  Interview with Victoria Coren, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. July 25, 2012.

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