Golfers Quotes - Page 14

• My body is here, but my mind has already teed off.

  Keith Michael

  Golf, Mind, Body

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• I admire the way golfers handle themselves. But tennis players are a lot younger, as a rule. There aren't many teenagers on the golf tour.

  Pete Sampras

  Teenager, Golf, Player

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• I think the image of golfers is terrific, and rightly so.

  Pete Sampras

  Thinking, Terrific

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• Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.

  Orson Welles

  Stars, Gold, Hollywood

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• I'm now unemployed. It's a weird feeling with no work, but at least there's still golf. Standup comedy is like my core, it's what I do. But I want to be a pro golfer. It's a love/hate relationship with golf. I can come away feeling so serene, and yet, it's the thing that I can let get to me to throw a club and say curses that don't even exist. I'm obsessed with something that won't let me master it. I don't know. I need therapy.

  Ray Romano

  Hate, Golf, Feelings

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• Like NASCAR race drivers or PGA golfers, why not require each of the [US presidential] candidates to cover their clothing, briefcases and staff with the logo patches of their corporate sponsors?

  Jim Hightower

  Race, Presidential, Why Not

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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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• The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Butterfly, Golf, Upset

  P. G. Wodehouse (2011). “The Clicking of Cuthbert”, p.128, The Floating Press

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• Everyone knows what the Masters is, even if you're a non-golfer. People know what Wimbledon is. They know what the Super Bowl is. There are certain events that people just know about.

  Tiger Woods

  People, Events, Wimbledon

  "Q&A: Tiger Woods on Gaming, the Masters and PGA Tour ’12". Interview with Kyle Stack, www.wired.com. March 17, 2011.

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• In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.

  Ken Harrelson

  Leadership, Baseball, Running

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• The average golfer's problem is not so much the lack of ability as it is lack of knowledge about what he should be doing

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Average, Problem

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• They throw their clubs backwards, and that's wrong. You should always throw a club ahead of you so that you don't have to walk any extra distance to get it.

  Tommy Bolt

  Distance, Golf, Clubs

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• I just hope I don't have to explain all the times I've used His name in vain when I get up there.

  Bob Hope

  Golf, Names, Get Up

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• But you don't have to go up in the stands and play your foul balls. I do.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Play, Balls

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• Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behaviour not otherwise excusable.

  A. P. Herbert

  Golf, Men, Games

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• O. J. Simpson has already received the ultimate punishment: For the rest of his life he has to associate with golfers.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Golf, Punishment

  George Carlin (2004). “When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, Hyperion

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• Golf is the most fun you can have with out taking your clothes off.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Fun, Golf, Clothes

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• The subconscious mind is probably the most important factor in being a good golfer. It keeps distractions on the course from ruining a good round. You should practice, develop your swing, and do most of your thinking on the practice tee so that when you play in competition, you can hit the ball automatically.

  Wiffy Cox

  Golf, Thinking, Practice

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• Any game where a man 60 can beat a man 30 ain't no game.

  Burt Shotton

  Golf, Men, Games

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• I think golfers get over-concerned about results. Enjoy the process: enjoy the opportunity to play.

  Wendy Ward

  Golf, Thinking, Opportunity

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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

  Golf, Blood, Squinting

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

  Henry Beard

  Lying, Golf, Play

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• Fairway: a narrow strip of mown grass that separates two groups of golfers looking for lost balls in the rough.

  Henry Beard

  Golf, Two, Groups

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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, Golf, Play

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

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• All golfers fear the one-iron. It has no angle, no loft. The one-iron is a confidence-crusher, a fear trip, an almost guarantee of shame, failure, dumbness and humiliation if you ever use it in public.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Golf, Iron, Guarantees

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