Golf Quotes - Page 6

• When you lip out several putts in a row, you should never think that means that you're putting well. When you're putting well, the only question is what part of the hole it's going to fall in, not if it's going in.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Fall, Mean, Thinking

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• Wear it if it clashes.

  Henry Beard

  Clash, Ifs

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• Keeping the head still is golf's one universal, unarguable fundamental.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Fundamentals, Stills, Universal

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• Golf is a game you can never get too good at. You can improve, but you can never get to where you master the game.

  Gay Brewer

  Games, Masters, Great Golf

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• Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Air, Years, Resistance

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• Rhythm and timing are the two things which we all must have, yet no one knows how to teach either.

  Bobby Jones

  Two, Timing, Teach

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• When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Long, Balls, Want

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• Why am I using a new putter? Because the last one didn't float too well.

  Craig Stadler

  Lasts, Wells, Floats

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• Go play golf. Go to the golf course. Hit the ball. Find the ball. Repeat until the ball is in the hole. Have fun. The end.

  Chuck Hogan

  Funny, Play, Having Fun

  Chuck Hogan (1993). “Learning Golf: The How-To-Learn Book for Aspiring Golfers”, Sports Enhancement Assocs

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• Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Hate, Mad

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• All I've got against golf is it takes you so far from the clubhouse.

  Eric Linklater

  Golfers, Golfing, Golf Life

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• Golf is the only sport I know of where a player pays for every mistake. A man can muff a serve in tennis, miss a strike in baseball, or throw an incomplete pass in football and still have another chance to square himself. In golf, every swing counts against you.

  Lloyd Mangrum

  Sports, Baseball, Football

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• No game designed to be played with the aid of personal servants by right-handed men who can't even bring along their dogs can be entirely good for the soul.

  Bruce McCall

  Dog, Men, Games

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• I don't like the glamour. I just like the game.

  Ben Hogan

  Games, Glamour, Golf Course

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• There is one thing in this world that is dumber than playing golf. That is watching someone else playing golf. What do you actually get to see? Thirty-seven guys in polyester slacks squinting at the sun. Doesn't that set your blood racing?

  Peter Andrews

  Blood, Squinting, Guy

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• "Play it as it lies" is one of the fundamental dictates of golf

  Henry Beard

  Lying, Play, Fundamentals

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• Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.

  Grantland Rice

  Philosophy, Romance, Tragedy

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• A good one iron shot is about as easy to come by as an understanding wife.

  Dan Jenkins

  Iron, Wife, Understanding

  Dan Jenkins (2010). “Dead Solid Perfect”, p.4, Anchor

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• I'm a golfaholic, no question about that. Counseling wouldn't help me. They'd have to put me in prison, and then I'd talk the warden into building a hole or two and teach him how to play.

  Lee Trevino

  Play, Two, Helping

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• If I had cleared the trees and drove the green, it would've been a great shot.

  Sam Snead

  Tree, Green, Shots

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• The ball retriever is not long enough to get my putter out of the tree.

  Brian Weiss

  Long, Tree, Balls

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• Golf seems to me an arduous way to go for a walk. I prefer to take the dogs out.

  Anne, Princess Royal

  Funny, Dog, Way

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• Golf is very much like a love affair. If you don't take it seriously, it's no fun, if you do, it breaks your heart. Don't break your heart, but flirt with the possibility.

  Louise Suggs

  Fun, Heart, Flirting

  Louise Suggs (1960). “Golf for Women”

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• I never played a round when I didn't learn something new about the game.

  Ben Hogan

  Games, Something New, Rounds

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• By the time you get to your ball, if you don't know what to do with it, try another sport.

  Julius Boros

  Sports, Trying, Balls

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