Golf Quotes - Page 13

• A good golf course is like good music or good anything else; it is not necessarily a course which appeals the first time one plays over it, but one which grows on the player the more frequently he visits it.

  Alister MacKenzie

  Play, Firsts, Doe

  "Golf Architecture: Economy in Course Construction and Greenkeeping".

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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, Feet

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• Golf is the only game that pits the player against an opponent, the weather, the minutest details of a large chunk of local topography and his own nervous system, all at the same time.

  Mike Seabrook

  Player, Games, Weather

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• I like to play golf. I like to shoot hoops.

  Justin Timberlake

  Play

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• Nobody but you and your caddie care what you do out there, and if your caddie is betting against you, he doesn't care, either.

  Lee Trevino

  Caddies, Care, Betting

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• You know why the game of golf is popular? Very easy, it's a great game.

  Bernhard Langer

  Sports, Games, Easy

  Interview with Julius Mason, www.rydercup.com. September 14, 2004.

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• Golf is an indispensable adjunct to high civilisation.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Indispensable, Civilisation

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• Golf does strange things to other people, too. It makes liars out of honest men, cheats out of altruists, cowards out of brave men and fools out of everybody.

  Milt Gross

  Liars, Men, People

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

  Bubba Watson

  Mean, Swings, Chance

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

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• The three things I fear most in golf are lightning, Ben Hogan and a downhill putt.

  Sam Snead

  Lightning, Three, Three Things

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• The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.

  Confucius

  Distance, Two, Tree

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• How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Funny, Sports, Retirement

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• I'm addicted. I'm addicted to golf.

  Tiger Woods

  Sports

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• If you think golf is relaxing, you're not playing it right.

  Bob Hope

  Thinking, Ifs

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

  Madonna Ciccone

  Sex, Fun, Fishing

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

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Sex, Fun

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• I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

  Arnold Palmer

  Sports, Perseverance, Winning

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• I'm the best. I just haven't played yet.

  Muhammad Ali

  Boxing, Havens, Funny Golf

  Twitter post from Sep 02, 2012

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• Playing golf is like eating. It's something which has to come naturally.

  Sam Snead

  Eating, Playing Golf

  Sam Snead (1961). “Sam Snead on golf”

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• The holes are numbered.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Holes

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• Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.

  Billy Casper

  Character, Men, Flames

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• They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why.

  Alistair Cooke

  Years, Said, Has Beens

  Alistair Cooke (2015). “Fun & Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.50, Open Road Media

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• Golf is not a fair game, so why build a course fair?

  Pete Dye

  Games, Fair Game, Courses

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• I accept the fact that I'm going to miss it sometimes. I just hope I miss it where I can find it.

  Fuzzy Zoeller

  Missing, Facts, Sometimes

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• Mary had a little putt, she needed it for par. Mary has a second putt...the first one went too far!

  Margaret Kennard

  Firsts, Littles, Mary

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