Golfers Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• Water creates a neurosis in golfers. The very thought of this harmless fluid robs them of their normal powers of rational thought, turns their legs to jelly, and produces a palsy of the upper limbs.

  Peter Dobereiner

  Golf, Water, Jelly

  Peter Dobereiner (1973). “The glorious world of golf”

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• I am the toughest golfer mentally.

  Tiger Woods

  Golf

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• Golfers should not fail to realize that it is a game of great traditions, of high ideals of sportsmanship, one in which a strict adherence to the rules is essential.

  Francis Ouimet

  Golf, Games, Sportsmanship

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• Have you ever actually listened to golfers talking to each other? "Looked good starting out..." "Better direction than last time..." "Who's away?..." It sounds like visitors' day at a home for the criminally insane.

  Peter Andrews

  Home, Golf, Talking

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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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• Golf is a game where white men can dress up as black pimps and get away with it.

  Robin Williams

  Golf, Men, White Man

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• And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, then you're not going to believe in the golf story, you're not going to believe in the rest of the film. That's the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie's crap.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Movie, Believe, Golf

  Interview With Paul Fischer, moviehole.net. February 7, 2005.

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• It is more satisfying to be a bad player at golf. The worse you play, the better you remember the occasional good shot.

  Nubar Gulbenkian

  Golf, Player, Remember

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• The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

  Billy Graham

  Sports, Prayer, Golf

  Billy Graham (2013). “Quotes from Billy Graham: A Legacy of Faith”, p.143, B&H Publishing Group

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• Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Simple, Complicated

  FaceBook post by Arnold Palmer from Oct 04, 2016

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• Isn't it fun to go out on the course and lie in the sun?

  Bob Hope

  Fun, Lying, Golf

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• It's so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying "Shhh" and not moving a muscle. Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.

  Al McGuire

  Moving, Kids, Golf

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• Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

  Jim Bishop

  Funny, Retirement, Native American

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• Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money.

  Lee Trevino

  Real, Golf, Hands

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• The moment the average golfer attempts to play from long grass or a bunker or from a difficult lie of any kind, he becomes a digger instead of a swinger.

  Bobby Jones

  Lying, Golf, Long Grass

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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, Golf, Ears

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• Putting allows the touchy golfer two to four opportunities to blow a gasket in the short space of two to forty feet.

  Tommy Bolt

  Funny, Dirty, Golf

  "Golf: The Game of Lessening Failures". Book by Bob Glanville, 2010.

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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, Golf, Games

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

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• As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

  Ben Hogan

  Inspirational, Sports, Friday

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• If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

  Jack Lemmon

  Sports, Dirty, Golf

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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, Golf, World

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• Golf is a game in which you yell "for," shoot six, and write down five.

  Paul Harvey

  Writing, Golf, Games

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

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Winning, Games

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• If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.

  Dean Martin

  Retirement, Drinking, Book

  "Famous drinkers" by Rob Parker, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2004.

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