Golf Quotes - Page 34

• To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

  Sam Snead

  Sports, Distance, Indifference

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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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• Golf is played between the ears and if you are not 100 percent focused on what you are trying to do, then people will go past you no matter who you are.

  Lee Westwood

  Past, People, Focus

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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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• The golf links lie so near the mill, That almost every day, The laboring children can look out, And watch the men at play

  Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn

  Children, Lying, Men

  "The Golf Links Lie So Near the Mill" l. 1 (1915)

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• In fishing, golf and gardening, if you don't have a healthy tolerance for your own ineptitude, then it isn't for you.

  William Bernard Ziff, Jr.

  Fishing, Healthy, Tolerance

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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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• 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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• 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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• I know the other side. I know what awful golf is.

  David Duval

  Awful, Sides, Knows

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• Let me tell you what's fun in golf - low scores. The manufacturers have tricked people into believing that distance is everything. There is no place on the scorecard that says you need to hit it 350 yards.

  Hal Sutton

  Fun, Distance, Believe

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• I'm a big sports guy - golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, snowboarding - and I love games.

  Jason Dohring

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

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• The biggest takeaway for anyone seeking to write is this: don't go looking for the way other authors do their work. You won't find many who are consistent enough to copy, and there are enough variations in approach that it's obvious that it's not like hitting home runs or swinging a golf club. There isn't a standard approach, there's only what works for you (and what doesn't).

  Seth Godin

  Running, Home, Writing

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• Show me a man with a great golf game, and I’ll show you a man who has been neglecting something.

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Games, Neglect

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• I owe everything to golf. Where else could a guy with an IQ like mine make this much money?

  Hubert Green

  Guy, Mines

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• Good golf is easier to play-and far more pleasant-than bad golf.

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias

  Play, Easier, Pleasant

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1948). “Championship golf”

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• Golf is a game of endless failure and frustration.

  Mike Greenberg

  Frustration, Games, Endless

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• I’m going to pass a law that no one can ask me my golf score.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Law, Score, Ask Me

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• People always say golfers don't smile. But there is so much psychology in golf so we have to be a bit robotic.

  Lee Westwood

  Smile, People, Psychology

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• The best thing about golf is ultimately what it teaches you about yourself. And the worst thing is how freakin' nervous it can make you feel.

  Gabrielle Reece

  Nervous, About Yourself, Worst

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• A golf course is for golf. A tennis court is for tennis. A prison camp is for escaping.

  Pierre Fresnay

  Escaping, Tennis, Prison

  "Fictional character: Le captaine de Boeldieu". "La Grande Illusion", www.imdb.com. 1937.

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• Concentrate, play your game, and don't be afraid to win.

  Amy Alcott

  Winning, Games, Play

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• Tempo is the glue that sticks all elements of the golf swing together.

  Nick Faldo

  Swings, Together, Glue

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• If you really want to become an actor, but only providing that acting doesn't interfere with your golf game, political ambitions and your life, you don't want to become an actor. Not only is acting more than a part time job, it's more than a full time job. It's a full time obsession.

  Michael Caine

  Jobs, Ambition, Games

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