Golf Quotes - Page 33

• It is never easy to win but it is a lot easier to win when you play well. The key is winning golf tournaments when you are not playing so well. Managing your game is something that I feel that I am still learning to do.

  Rory McIlroy

  Winning, Games, Play

  "CNN exclusive with Jack Nicklaus and Rory McIlroy". "Living Golf" with Shane O'Donoghue, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. June 7, 2012.

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• After years of patient study (and with cricket there can be no other kind), I have decided that there is nothing wrong with the game that the introduction of golf carts wouldn't fix in a hurry.

  Bill Bryson

  Years, Games, Patient

  Bill Bryson (2000). “Down Under”, Doubleday Books

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• The doctors told me I'd be fine if I play only golf and tennis doubles for the rest of my life. But I dive. I dogsled. I trek. I guess I'll have surgery.

  Lauren Hutton

  Doctors, Play, Tennis

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• I love baseball, but being here (in the United States), I've been able to play golf every day. I can't play in Japan because every course has caddies, and the caddies all want autographs and don't want to let me golf.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Baseball, Japan, Play

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• When you make a mistake, the ocean gives you an instant reminder. You get punished. If golf clubs could shock you every time you hit the ball wrong, we'd probably learn how to play golf pretty well.

  Laird Hamilton

  Mistake, Ocean, Play

  "Laird Hamilton: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. March 23, 2011.

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• No, I don't have any problems leaving disappointments behind. I've had lots of good days at golf and a few disappointments, so you never know what's around the corner.

  Lee Westwood

  Disappointment, Good Day, Focus

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• I don't play the sport for fame. I don't try to win tournaments for fame. I don't do any of that. It's just me. I'm just Bubba. I goof around. I joke around. I just want to be me and play golf.

  Bubba Watson

  Sports, Winning, Play

  "Solomon: 'Bubba from Bagdad' now a major golf name". Interview, www.chron.com. April 8, 2012.

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• Using TrackMan is very important in the development of your golf game because it gives you such good data on what your golf swing is doing and where it needs to go.

  Jason Dufner

  Swings, Data, Games

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• You just don't have the time to worry about what others are doing. You just want to take care of your own business. You are focused on that tee shot on the 10th tee and making it to the finish line. It's one of the most stressful moments in professional golf, but you have worked so hard to get to that point, that it really is fun.

  Mike Weir

  Fun, Worry, Effort

  Sky Sports Interview, www.skysports.com. July 3, 2011.

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• A lot of people think I am cold and have no feelings. But I do. I just try very hard to focus and not let my emotions take over on the golf course.

  Annika Sorenstam

  Thinking, People, Focus

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• I go into the locker room and find a corner and just sit there. I try to achieve a peaceful state of nothingness that will carry over onto the golf course. If I can get that feeling of quiet and obliviousness within myself, I feel I can't lose.

  Jane Blalock

  Peaceful, Feelings, Trying

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• I have always had a drive that pushed me to try for perfection, and golf is a game in which perfection stays just out of reach.

  Betsy Rawls

  Games, Perfection, Trying

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• I have a project at HBO and one at the Family Channel coming that are being looked at. Aside from that I am not doing much more than playing golf and some skiing.

  Gil Gerard

  Hbo, Skiing, Projects

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• I was playing once with the King of Samoa. I asked him what his handicap was. "Six wives," he said.

  Jack Redmond

  Kings, Wife, Six

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• I don't have a life, I really don't. I'm as close to a nun as you can be without the little hat. I'm a golf nun.

  Gabrielle Reece

  Sports, Hate, Hats

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• Golf is difficult to get your personality over because you are such a bottle of concentration.

  Lee Westwood

  Focus, Personality, Bottles

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• Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Exercise, Playing Games

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• I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

  Play, Giving, Give Me A Chance

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• In order to hit a good golf shot at that moment in time when you're standing over the ball, you must believe that golf shot is the most important things in your life.

  Tiger Woods

  Success, Believe, Order

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• As a final crash of self-indulgent nonsense, when the incontrovertible truth of your panoramic and murderous deceit has even begun to cost your political party seemingly perpetual congressional seats....When somebody asks you, sir, about the cooked books and faked threats you foisted on a sincere and frightened nation; when somebody asks you, sir, about your gallant, noble, self-abnegating sacrifice of your golf game so as to soothe the families of the war dead; this advice, Mr. Bush: Shut the hell up! Good night and good luck.

  Keith Olbermann

  Good Night, War, Party

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• I still recall the day when I became known not just as Gay Brewer, but 'Gay Brewer, winner of the 1967 Masters.' The reality of the title – the biggest thrill I've had in golf – is something that can never be taken away.

  Gay Brewer

  Taken, Gay, Reality

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• Painting is like Golf, the fewer the strokes I take, the better the picture.

  John Marin

  Painting, Strokes, Fewer

  "John Marin Memorial Exhibition".

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• As far as golf being athletic, I would say, go try it, let's see how well you do. It's a hard game.

  Matt Kuchar

  Games, Athletic, Trying

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• Golf isn't just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and putting into soup cans, out of the ivy and over rose bushes and hedges - the little Alcott Golf and Country Club. I just loved having a wedge in my hands.

  Amy Alcott

  Country, Hands, Ivy

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• Golf is a thinking man's game. You can have all the shots in the bag, but if you don't know what to do with them, you've got troubles.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Sports, Men, Thinking

  Chi Chi Rodriguez (1975). “Everybody's Golf Book”, Viking Adult

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