Golf Swing Quotes

• I think the golf swing is all about rotation, all about trying to keep the club on plane.

  Tiger Woods

  Golf, Thinking, Swings

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• You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Thinking, Swings

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• Having a great golf swing helps under pressure, but golf is a game about scoring. It's like an artist who can get a two-inch brush at Wal-Mart for 20 cents or a fine camel-hair brush from an art store for 20 dollars. The brush doesn't matter - how the finished painting looks is what matters.

  Jerry Pate

  Art, Golf, What Matters

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• Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Hair, Swings

  Ben Hogan (2010). “Power Golf”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• The real reason your pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing at you.

  Phyllis Diller

  Retirement, Real, Golf

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• Swing hard in case you hit it.

  Dan Marino

  Golf, Swings, Inspirational Baseball

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• The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.

  John Updike

  Golf, Swings, Trying

  John Updike (2009). “More Matter: Essays and Criticism”, p.124, Random House

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  What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

  Arnold Palmer

  Inspirational Sports, Art, Athlete

  Arnold Palmer (2016). “A Life Well Played: My Stories”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• The moment the average golfer attempts to play from long grass or a bunker or from a difficult lie of any kind, he becomes a digger instead of a swinger.

  Bobby Jones

  Lying, Golf, Long Grass

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• Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.

  A. A. Milne

  Golf, Games, World

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Not That it Matters”, p.22, The Floating Press

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

  Madonna Ciccone

  Sex, Fun, Golf

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

  Ian Baker-Finch

  Holiday, Golf, Driving

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• He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Golf, Swings

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• Forget the last shot. It takes so long to accept that you can't always replicate your swing. The only thing you can control is your attitude toward the next shot.

  Mark McCumber

  Attitude, Golf, Swings

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• Everybody can see that my swing is homegrown. That means everybody has a chance to do it.

  Bubba Watson

  Mean, Golf, Swings

  "Masters champion Bubba Watson returns to action with 'Bubba golf'" by Lawrence Donegan, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2012.

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• If you think your hands are more important in your golf swing than your legs, try walking a hole on your hands.

  Gary Player

  Golf, Thinking, Swings

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• My favorite shots are the practice swing and the conceded putt. The rest can never be mastered.

  George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

  Golf, Swings, Practice

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

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

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Fun, Golf, Clothes

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• It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

  Hank Aaron

  Funny, Sports, Baseball

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• It is more satisfying to be a bad player at golf. The worse you play, the better you remember the occasional good shot.

  Nubar Gulbenkian

  Golf, Player, Remember

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