Golfers Quotes

• The better your attitude and the harder you work, the luckier you get.

  Robert G. Allen

  Attitude, Wrestling, Golf

  Robert G. Allen (2006). “Creating Wealth: Retire in Ten Years Using Allen's Seven Principles of Wealth”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• The golfer has more enemies than any other athlete. He has fourteen clubs in his bag, all of them different; 18 holoes to play, all of them different, every week; and all around him is sand, trees, grass, water, wind and 143 other players. In addition, the game is 50 percent mental, so his biggest enemy is himself.

  Dan Jenkins

  Athlete, Golf, Player

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• John certainly gives it a good hit, doesn't he? My Sunday best is a Wednesday afternoon compared to him.

  Nick Faldo

  Golf, Sunday, Giving

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• I'm patient with crossword puzzles and the most impatient golfer.

  Brett Hull

  Sports, Patient, Impatience

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• Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What are we supposed to take up when we quit?

  George Archer

  Basketball, Baseball, Football

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• I didn't get into this to pick up a new hobby. I don't want to just be a golfer. I want to be the best.

  Gabrielle Reece

  Sports, Hobbies, Want

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• Golfers are forever working on mechanics. My tennis swing hasn't changed in 10 years.

  Pete Sampras

  Sports, Swings, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What's nice about our tour is you can't remember your bad shots.

  Bob Bruce

  Nice, Golf, Remember

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

  Eric Linklater

  Golf, Golfing, Golf Life

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• If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

  Lou Graham

  Sports, Fighting, Golf

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• It's so bad I could putt off a tabletop and still leave the ball halfway down the leg.

  J. C. Snead

  Golf, Balls, Legs

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• Never bet with anyone you meet on the first tee who has a deep suntan, a 1-iron in his bag, and squinty eyes.

  Dave Marr

  Eye, Golf, Iron

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• Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.

  Jim Bishop

  Golf, Twenties, Yards

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• I always wanted to be the best I could be at whatever I did. I didn't want to be the number one golfer in the world. I just wanted to be as good as I could be.

  Greg Norman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Numbers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'd play every day if I could. It's cheaper than a shrink and there are no telephones on my golf cart.

  Brent Musburger

  Golf, Play, Telephones

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• You can't call it a sport. You don't run, jump, you don't shoot, you don't pass. All you have to do is buy some clothes that don't match.

  Steve Sax

  Sports, Running, Golf

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• Retire to what? I'm a golfer and a fisherman. I've got no place to retire to.

  Julius Boros

  Golf, Fisherman, Retiring

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• There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park-like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand.

  Charles Rosin

  Golf, Parks, Settings

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• The world's No. 1 tennis player spends 90 percent of his time winning, while the world's No. 1 golfer spends 90 percent of his time losing. Golfers are great losers.

  David Feherty

  Golf, Winning, Player

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• A golfer needs a loving wife to whom he can describe the day's play through the long evening.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Golf, Play, Long

  P. G. Wodehouse (2011). “The Clicking of Cuthbert”, p.241, The Floating Press

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• Give me a man with big hands and big feet and no brains and I'll make a golfer out of him.

  Walter Hagen

  Golf, Men, Hands

  Quoted in Michael Hobbs The Golf Quotation Book (1992).

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• No golfer can ever become too good to practice.

  May Hezlet

  Golf, Practice

  May Hezlet (1907). “Ladies' Golf”

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• You learn to accept defeat graciously in golf. Unlike other sports, the game itself is a constant opponent. It never stops. A golfer is fortunate to win a few times. We spend our whole lives trying to conquer something, and we lose a lot more than we win.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Sports, Golf, Winning

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• This golfer has a wicked slice. And quite a follow-through. That's why his partner, who stood too close, Is on the green in two.

  Richard Armour

  Golf, Two, Wicked

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• Some golfers blast their ball from traps, With one adroit explosion, But others, out in ten perhaps, Depend upon erosion.

  Richard Armour

  Golf, Erosion, Balls

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