Golf Quotes - Page 4

• It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Gains, Shots, Funny Golf

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• I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Sports, Hate

  Quoted in Michael HobbsThe Golf Quotation Book (1992).

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• Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But such is certainly not the case.

  Bobby Jones

  Games, Balls, Able

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• After all these years, it's still embarrassing for me to play on the American golf tour. Like the time I asked my caddie for a sand wedge and he came back ten minutes later with a ham on rye.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Dirty, Play, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I play with friends, but we don't play friendly games.

  Ben Hogan

  Funny, Games, Play

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• Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Sports, Games, Balls

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• The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

  H. G. Wells

  Beauty, Men, Law

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.4845, Delphi Classics

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• This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.

  Ben Hogan

  Winning, Games, Missing

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• I'm not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they'd come up sliced.

  Lee Trevino

  Dirty, Games, Gold

  Quoted in Scholastic Coach,'Coaches' Corner', Dec 1982.

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• Never break your putter and your driver in the same round or you're dead.

  Tommy Bolt

  Break, Drivers, Rounds

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• Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Winning, Squash

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• The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Sports, Games, Green

  Letter on May 15, 1925. "Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917 - 1961", book edited by Carlos Baker, 1981.

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• Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?

  Ben Hogan

  Funny, Sports, Athlete

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• The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top.

  Pete Dye

  Funny, Play, Everest

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• I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Funny, Play, Chess

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• It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.

  Bobby Jones

  Basketball, Sports, Years

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• One of the most fascinating things about golf is how it reflects the cycle of life. No matter what you shoot - the next day you have to go back to the first tee and begin all over again and make yourself into something.

  Peter Jacobsen

  Cycle Of Life, Next Day, Matter

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• It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Sports, World, Impossible

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• One thing about golf is you don't know why you play bad and why you play good.

  George Archer

  Play, Funny Golf, Great Golf

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• I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance my left ear is from my right.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Distance, Ears, Inches

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• There's an old saying,'It's a poor craftsman who blames his tools.' It's usually the player who misses those three-footers, not the putter.

  Kathy Whitworth

  Player, Missing, Three

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• One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after year with faults we had discovered and corrected time and again.

  Bobby Jones

  Struggle, Years, Games

  Bobby Jones (1966). “Bobby Jones on Golf”, Main Street Books

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• A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Clubs, Flukes

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• No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why golf is the greatest of games. You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.

  Bobby Jones

  Men, Games, Thumbs

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• Swing hard in case you hit it.

  Dan Marino

  Swings, Inspirational Baseball, Great Baseball

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