Golfers Quotes - Page 3

• My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch.

  Lee Trevino

  Golf, Swings, Lunch

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• A good player who is a great putter is a match for any golfer. A great hitter who cannot putt is a match for no one.

  Ben Sayers

  Golf, Player, Great Golf

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• I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sports, Golf, Guitar

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.

  Ben Hogan

  Sports, Athlete, Shoulders

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• Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.

  Johnny Miller

  Golf, Clubs, Enough

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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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• The game has such a hold on golfers because they compete not only against an opponent, but also against the course, against par, and most surely- against themselves.

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Games, Opponents

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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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• The harder you work, the luckier you become.

  Carl Karcher

  Wrestling, Golf, Bodybuilding

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• Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Perseverance, Work

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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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• You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.

  Gary Player

  Golf, Natural, Hard

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• Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

  Terry Pratchett

  Sex, Fun, Writing

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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 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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• If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Hope, Inspirational Sports

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• Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Games, Mental Toughness

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.

  Ben Hogan

  Sports, Golf, Needs

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• Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you're prepared to lose.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Giving, Ultimatum, Prepared

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

  Lee Trevino

  Real, Golf, Hands

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• Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.

  Bobby Jones

  Sports, Golf, Space

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• To be truthful, I think golfers are overpaid. It's unreal, and I have trouble dealing with the guilt sometimes.

  Colin Montgomerie

  Golf, Thinking, Guilt

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• The older I get, the better I used to be.

  Lee Trevino

  Wine, Golf, Tennis

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• If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.

  Lee Trevino

  Sports, Golf, Iron

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• The harder you work, the luckier you get.

  Gary Player

  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

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