Golf Life Quotes

• 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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• 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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• The best exercise for golfers is golfing.

  Bobby Jones

  Exercise, Golf, Golfers

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• The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Butterfly, Golf, Upset

  P. G. Wodehouse (2011). “The Clicking of Cuthbert”, p.128, The Floating Press

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• Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

  John Updike

  Children, Dirty, Golf

  John Updike (2011). “Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf”, p.148, Random House

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• Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.

  Winston Churchill

  Golf, Pills, Cows

  Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

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• Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Golf, Years, Serious

  P. G. Wodehouse, D. R. Bensen (1999). “Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf”, p.201, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at it.

  Jimmy Demaret

  Sex, Golf, Enjoy

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

  Arnold Palmer

  Motivational, Sports, Golf

  FaceBook post by Arnold Palmer from Oct 04, 2016

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• The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

  H. G. Wells

  Beauty, Golf, Men

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.4845, Delphi Classics

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

  William Wordsworth

  Sports, Retirement, Golf

  'The Prelude' (1850) bk. 4, l. 376

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• I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.

  Tiger Woods

  Business, Golf, Doing What You Love

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• Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses...

  Adlai Stevenson I

  Funny, Golf, Church

  "The Political Thought of Adlai E. Stevenson" by William Robert Latimer, (p. 89), 1955.

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• The mind messes up more shots than the body.

  Tommy Bolt

  Golf, Mind, Body

  Tommy Bolt, William C. Griffith (1969). “How to keep your temper on the golf course”

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• Sex is the most fun you can have without smiling.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Sex, Fun, 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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• Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Sex, Fun

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• John certainly gives it a good hit, doesn't he? My Sunday best is a Wednesday afternoon compared to him.

  Nick Faldo

  Golf, Sunday, Giving

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• Golf is the most fun you can have with out taking your clothes off.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Fun, Golf, Clothes

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• His driving is unbelievable. I don't go that far on my holidays.

  Ian Baker-Finch

  Holiday, Golf, Driving

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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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• My body is here, but my mind has already teed off.

  Keith Michael

  Golf, Mind, Body

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• The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Golf, Bags, Woods

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• The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I shot the happiest 83 of my life.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Dirty, Golf, Gold

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• If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.

  Paul Gallico

  Golf, Men, Handicaps

  Paul Gallico (2015). “Farewell to Sport”, p.165, Open Road Media

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