Golf Quotes - Page 26

• The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

  Will Rogers

  Lying, Liars, Income

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• Exercise? I get it on the golf course. When I see my friends collapse, I run for the paramedics.

  Red Skelton

  Running, Exercise, Collapse

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• A decision of the courts decided that the game of golf may be played on a Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

  Bill Vaughan

  Sunday, Views, Law

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• The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.

  Nancy Lopez

  Sports, Play, Lasts

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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, What Matters, Hair

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• Who can say I have a bad swing? The only thing that matters in golf is the score you put on the board. You don't have to look pretty out there, you have to win. Look at my record and tell me who has a better swing than mine.

  Lee Trevino

  Winning, Swings, Boards

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• Life's too short to spend all the time in the gym. I just like to have a few beers and enjoy myself too.

  Ian Woosnam

  Beer, Too Short, Enjoy

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• It's a torture chamber, if we had to play it every day I don't think I'd be playing golf.

  Ian Woosnam

  Thinking, Play, Torture

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• Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism.

  Robert Hass

  Games, People, Matter

  Robert Hass (1984). “Twentieth century pleasures: prose on poetry”, Ecco Pr

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• I do not let a bad score ruin my enjoyment for golf.

  Darrell Royal

  Ruins, Score, Enjoyment

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• I don't believe I have a good enough friend to give a three-footer

  Curtis Strange

  Believe, Giving, Three

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• Tiger, come on now, you've still got work to do. This round and golf tournament are not over. Hang in there and finish the race.

  Tiger Woods

  Race, Hang In There, Stills

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• Arnie has more people watching him park the car than we do out on the course.

  Lee Trevino

  People, Car, Parks

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• Two things that are not long for this world: dogs that chase cars and professional golfers who putt for pars.

  Lee Trevino

  Dog, Two, Long

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• Golf is the ultimate avoidance activity for the dysfunctional dad. A game so nonsensically difficult, so pointless, so irrationally time consuming, the word golf itself can only stand for ‘Get Out, Leave Family.’

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Dad, Games, Difficult

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• I am about as relaxed a guy as it gets. I like sitting on my couch, watching shows, sitting by the fire pit. I like to play golf, but I don't have a chance to play it often. Playstation. Xbox, but I'm about as boring a guy as you'll ever meet. I could sit on this couch from the time the day starts to the time the day ends.

  George Springer

  Guy, Chance, Boring

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• A golfer should never make a mental mistake because the ball is just sitting there waiting for you to hit it.

  Tiger Woods

  Mistake, Waiting, Balls

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• I believe that my creative mind is my greatest weapon.

  Tiger Woods

  Believe, Creative, Mind

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• You ever go up to the tee and say, 'Don't hit it left, don't hit it right'? That's your conscious mind. My body knows how to play golf. I've trained it to do that. It's just a matter of keeping my conscious mind out of it.

  Tiger Woods

  Play, Mind, Body

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• Companies need to have a lot more flexibility with their people... . If somebody wants to golf around the world for two months, okay, well, maybe on an unpaid basis, let them do it. That sort of flexibility I think is incredibly important because most of our time, we spend at work.

  Richard Branson

  Thinking, Two, People

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• Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet.

  Robert Ballard

  Moon, Mountain Ranges, Sea

  "The astonishing hidden world of the deep ocean". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2008.

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• When people discover they are no good at baseball or hockey, they put away their bats and their skates and they take up amateur golf or stamp collecting or gardening. But when people discover they are no good at picking stocks, they are likely to continue to do it anyway.

  Peter Lynch

  Baseball, Hockey, People

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• I find golf very relaxing. It's a way to get away from work and get outside. It's a lot of fun, and once you get going it's almost kind of addictive.

  Bill Gates

  Sports, Fun, Way

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• I'm a golfaholic. And all the counseling in the world wouldn't help me.

  Lee Trevino

  World, Helping, Counseling

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• We went around and looked and talked to a lot of foundations with those charities and decided upon the Childrens Hospital. They had a golf tournament at the time, but it was a small event that didnt raise a significant amount of money.

  Tom Kite

  Sports, Foundation, Events

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