Golf Life Quotes - Page 3

What's nice about our tour is you can't remember your bad shots.

Bob Bruce

Nice, Golf, Remember

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I'd play every day if I could. It's cheaper than a shrink and there are no telephones on my golf cart.

Brent Musburger

Golf, Play, Telephones

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It's difficult to excel at something you don't truly enjoy.

Jack Nicklaus

Enjoy, Difficult, Enjoyment

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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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The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top.

Pete Dye

Funny, Golf, Play

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One minute you're bleeding. The next minute you're hemorrhaging. The next minute you're painting the Mona Lisa.

Mac O'Grady

Golf, Bleeding, Next

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As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Ben Hogan

Inspirational, Sports, Friday

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The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

Ernest Hemingway

Sports, Golf, Games

Letter on May 15, 1925. "Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917 - 1961", book edited by Carlos Baker, 1981.

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The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

Billy Graham

Sports, Prayer, Golf

Billy Graham (2013). “Quotes from Billy Graham: A Legacy of Faith”, p.143, B&H Publishing Group

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I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.

Joe E. Lewis

Funny, Golf, Play

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Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.

Jack Nicklaus

Golf, Air, Years

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If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near him and audibly count his strokes. It would be justifiable homicide if he wound up his pitiable exhibition by applying his niblick to your head.

Harry Vardon

Golf, Would Be, Exhibitions

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I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.

Gerald R. Ford

Funny, Sports, Golf

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The trouble that most of us find with the modern matched sets of clubs is that they don't really seem to know any more about the game than the old ones did.

Robert Browning

Golf, Games, Clubs

Robert Browning (1985). “A History of Golf”

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The difference between golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.

George Deukmejian

Funny, Lying, Golf

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I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance my left ear is from my right.

Ben Crenshaw

Distance, Golf, Ears

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It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it.

Jack Nicklaus

Golf, Gains, Shots

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It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

Mark Twain

Funny, Sports, Inspiration

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They throw their clubs backwards, and that's wrong. You should always throw a club ahead of you so that you don't have to walk any extra distance to get it.

Tommy Bolt

Distance, Golf, Clubs

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Isn't it fun to go out on the course and lie in the sun?

Bob Hope

Fun, Lying, Golf

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I just hope I don't have to explain all the times I've used His name in vain when I get up there.

Bob Hope

Golf, Names, Get Up

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Why am I using a new putter? Because the last one didn't float too well.

Craig Stadler

Golf, Lasts, Wells

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But you don't have to go up in the stands and play your foul balls. I do.

Sam Snead

Golf, Play, Balls

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The harder you work, the luckier you become.

Carl Karcher

Wrestling, Golf, Bodybuilding

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There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

Lee Trevino

Sports, Perseverance, Golf

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