Golfers Quotes - Page 4

• If you pick up a golfer and hold it close to your ear, like a conch shell, and listen, you will hear an alibi.

  Fred Beck

  Golf, Shells, Ears

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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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• 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 most important shot in golf is the next one.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Important, The Next One

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• Aggressive play is a vital asset of the world's greatest golfers. However, it's even more important to the average player. Attack this game in a bold, confident, and determined way, and you'll make a giant leap toward realizing your full potential as a player.

  Greg Norman

  Golf, Player, Average

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• Like most professional golfers, I have a tendency to remember my poor shots a shade more vividly than the good ones.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Shade, Remember

  Ben Hogan (1985). “Ben Hogan's Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Sports, Rapper

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• Show me a golfer who doesn't have a mean streak, and I'll show you a weak competitor.

  Lee Trevino

  Mean, Golf, Weak

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• The biggest liar in the world is the golfer who claims he plays the game for exercise.

  Tommy Bolt

  Funny, Liars, Humorous

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• Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything.

  Michael Bamberger

  Golf, Guitar, Tennis

  Michael Bamberger (2007). “This Golfing Life”, p.43, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.

  Alistair Cooke

  Ambition, Golf, Skills

  Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.61, Arcade Publishing

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• Duffers who consistently shank their balls are urged to buy and study Shanks - No Thanks by R.K. Hoffman, or in extreme cases, M.S. Howard's excellent Tennis for Beginners.

  Henry Beard

  Golf, Tennis, Beginners

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• I've always wanted to be a professional golfer and I'm glad that came true.

  Karrie Webb

  Wanted, Glad, Advertising Agencies

  "Karrie Webb Spins Cycle of Success". Insurance Journal interview, amp.insurancejournal.com. August 9, 2004.

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• Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

  Arnold Palmer

  Wisdom, Golf, Natural Gifts

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• It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.

  Karrie Webb

  Sports, Mom, Dad

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• The best exercise for golfers is golfing.

  Bobby Jones

  Exercise, Golf, Golfing

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• May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.

  Ben Hogan

  Lying, Golf, Water

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• Sex is the most fun you can have without smiling.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Sex, Fun, Golf

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• On a recent survey, 80 percent of golfers admitted cheating. The other 20 percent lied.

  Bruce Lansky

  Cheating, Golf, Lied

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• The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top.

  Pete Dye

  Funny, Golf, Play

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• The difference between golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.

  George Deukmejian

  Funny, Lying, Golf

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  What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

  Arnold Palmer

  Inspirational Sports, Art, Athlete

  Arnold Palmer (2016). “A Life Well Played: My Stories”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

  Sam Snead

  Sports, Golf, Knives

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• Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

  John Updike

  Children, Dirty, Golf

  John Updike (2011). “Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf”, p.148, Random House

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• I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.

  Martin Sheen

  Honesty, Play, Way

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. July 1, 2003.

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