Golfers Quotes - Page 8

• On golfer Rory McIlroy's collapse in the final round of the 2011 Masters: We had hoped to compare the young Northern Irishman to the great Masters champions but instead had to reach for the compendium of great golfing train wrecks.

  Matt Dickinson

  Failure, Train Wrecks, Champion

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• I'm pretty much an open book. I am a fanatic golfer and golf nut. If I have three free hours any day, my first choice is to run to the golf course if the weather is nice.

  Thomas Friedman

  Running, Nice, Book

  Source: theislamicmonthly.com

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• There are times when a golfer is tempted to throw her clubs away and forget the whole 'humblin' business.' At other times, she wouldn't trade places with a queen-that's when the shots are long and true, and putts are dropping.

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias

  Queens, Long, Clubs

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

  Pete Sampras

  Thinking, Terrific

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

  Keith Michael

  Golf, Mind, Body

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• Any golfer worth his salt has to cross the sea and try to win the British Open.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Winning, Sea, Trying

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• Tips can make someone a better writer but not necessarily a good writer. That's a larger package - a matter of character. Golfing is more than keeping the left arm straight. Every good golfer is a complex engine that runs on ability, ego, determination, discipline, patience, confidence, and other qualities that are self-taught. So it is with writers and all creative artists. If their values are solid their work is likely to be solid.

  William Zinsser

  Running, Determination, Character

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• The vast majority of golfers don't go on to play golf as a profession, but they do go onto other professions where there will heat on them from time to time. Some people choke under pressure. If you have that as part of your character - that you don't perform well under pressure - it's really important for you to know that. The game teaches you about that.

  Stewart Cink

  Character, Golf, Games

  "A conversation with PGA golfer Stewart Cink". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. January, 2012.

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• Every golfer should come to the first tee with fourteen clubs, a dozen balls, a handful of tees, and at least one great golf story

  Lee Trevino

  Golf, Balls, Stories

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• There is no such thing as a natural golfer but you become one by hitting thousands of balls

  Lee Trevino

  Balls, Hitting, Natural

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• Who listens to golfers? They're boring. If I want to wear camouflage on the golf course during a tournament, I will. And I have.

  Bubba Watson

  Golf, Camouflage, Want

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The mediocre golfer generally is one who is too lazy to play better.

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias

  Play, Lazy, Mediocre

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1948). “Championship golf”

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• I do less of that stuff now because I figured out that when I was writing things I didn't care about, it made me angry and depressed, so I turned my focus to what does make me happy, and also I recognized that one of the things that gives me great happiness is teaching creative writing, and so I could write profiles of professional golfers or I could be a professor. Being a professor made me much happier.

  Tod Goldberg

  Teaching, Writing, Giving

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Who wants to be reputable? That's for golfers and tycoons with a sleazy past.

  Tim Winton

  Past, Tycoons, Want

  Source: www.sas.org.uk

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• There's no set time or schedule for developing one's skills as a professional golfer, and it certainly doesn't come overnight. It's a muscle-memory exercise that comes over time.

  Ben Hogan

  Memories, Exercise, Skills

  Source: www.ritson-sole.com

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• The book on my nightstand right now isnt anything that inspired me, but it entertained me. I read a book on Labor Day, it was a holiday, and I have three daughters, and we all went to the shopping mall and I sat on the bench and read a book while they shopped, it was called The Greatest Golfer there Ever Was, it was a great book, easy to read and entertaining.

  Max Lucado

  Daughter, Book, Holiday

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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• I've drawn a lot of inspiration from people who have supported me, golfers who have helped me. If it wasn't for the game of golf I'd probably be mowing the greens back in Latrobe.

  Arnold Palmer

  Inspiration, Golf, Games

  "An Interview with the king of golf before the 38th Arnold Palmer Invitational". Golf Content Network Interview, golfcontentnetwork.com. March 16, 2016.

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• I think, first of all, I'm very proud of Sam Saunders in general. I am happy to see him playing well and his performance has been good. He is coming on as I hoped he would at this stage of his life.He is a fine young man as well as a fine golfer. He is doing things the right way.

  Arnold Palmer

  Men, Thinking, Proud

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• If anything, more kids that want to get good at golf will get fine-tuned. It's factual. It's science, how to build a golfer. I think that's huge.

  Nick Faldo

  Kids, Golf, Thinking

  "Interview: Nick Faldo on Rory McIlroy, golf's youth revolution and why the Americans struggle at the Ryder Cup". Interview with Joel Beall, www.golfdigest.com. September 22, 2016.

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• If a guy is a good athlete, he'll end up being a pretty decent golfer if he just takes it up. But you never master it; even the best players in the world never master the game.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Athlete, Player, Games

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

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• I suppose I get a lot of questions about Tiger. But Tiger Woods is a tremendous talent. He plays well. He has a great work ethic. He's probably as talented of a golfer as anyone who's ever played.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Play, Work Ethic, Woods

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

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