Golfers Quotes - Page 8

• The test of a great golfer is his ability to recover from a bad start.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Golf, Tests, Ability

  P. G. Wodehouse, D. R. Bensen (1999). “Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Many bad golfers marry, feeling that a wife's loving solicitude may improve their game. But they are rugged, thick-skinned men, not sensitive and introspective. It is one of the chief merits of golf that non-success at the game induces a certain amount of decent humilty, which keeps a man from pluming himself too much on any petty triumphs he may achieve in other walks of life.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Golf, Men, Games

  P.G. Wodehouse (2013). “The Golf Omnibus”, p.163, Random House

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• Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren't penalized for being on grass.

  Bob Hope

  Sports, Golf, Player

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• Jimmy Stewart could have been a good golfer, but he speaks so slowly that by the time he yells 'Fore!' the guy he's hit is already in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.

  Bob Hope

  Golf, Guy, Way

  "Love of golf kept Hope tied to game" by Richard Urban, www.espn.com. January 20, 2004.

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• Golf is a game where guts and blind devotion will always net you absolutely nothing but an ulcer.

  Tommy Bolt

  Funny, Golf, Games

  Tommy Bolt, William C. Griffith (1969). “How to keep your temper on the golf course”

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• The only shots you can be sure of are those you've had already.

  Byron Nelson

  Golf, Shots

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• You've just one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you've hit it.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Balls, Problem

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• He [the golfer] must have the courage to keep trying in the face of ill luck or disappointment, and timidity to appreciate and appraise the dangers of each stroke, and to curb the desire to take chances beyond reasonable hope of success.

  Bobby Jones

  Disappointment, Golf, Appreciate

  Bobby Jones (1966). “Bobby Jones on Golf”, Main Street Books

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• I'm going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money-winners list.

  Lee Trevino

  Golf, Winning, Years

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• No one who ever had lessons would have a swing like mine.

  Lee Trevino

  Golf, Swings, Lessons

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• The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I shot the happiest 83 of my life.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Dirty, Golf, Gold

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• I was asked by a golfer how to lower his scores. I replied start playing 9 holes instead of 18. I worked for me, it cut my scores in half.

  Brian Weiss

  Golf, Cutting, Half

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• The best architects feel it to be their duty to make the path to the hole as free as possible from annoying difficulties for the less skillful golfers, while at the same time presenting to the scratch players a route calling for the best shots at their command.

  Robert Hunter

  Golf, Player, Scratches

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• The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Golf, Bags, Woods

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• Baffling late-life discovery: Golfers wear those awful clothes on purpose.

  Herb Caen

  Golf, Discovery, Clothes

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• The life of the golfer is not all gloom; There's always the lies in the locker room.

  Sammy Cahn

  Lying, Golf, Lockers

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• Ive always said that if I could do anything in the world, I would be a professional golfer.

  Dane DeHaan

  Would Be, World, Said

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• The older I get, the better I was.

  Van Dyke Parks

  Wine, Golf, Age

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I gravitate toward the team thing. I'm not a golfer - I much prefer basketball.

  Michael Eisner

  Basketball, Team

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• I intend to be the greatest golfer in the world, the finest film producer in Hollywood, the greatest pilot in the world, and the richest man in the world.

  Howard Hughes

  Men, World, Pilots

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• Trevino is in a league by himself. We don't even count him. We figure when you come in second, you're a winner.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Golf, League, Winner

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• You know the world's gone mad when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the USA of arrogance and the Germans don't want to go to war !

  Chris Rock

  War, Rapper, Usa

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• I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches.

  Harvey Penick

  Sports, Teacher, Teaching

  Harvey Penick, Davis Love III (2012). “Harvey Penick's Little Red Book: Lessons And Teachings From A Lifetime In Golf”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• Success is a learnable skill. You can learn to succeed at anything. If you want to be a great golfer, you can learn how to do it. If you want to be a great piano player, you can learn how to do it. If you want to be truly happy, you can learn how to do it. If you want to be rich, you can learn how to do it. It doesn't matter where you are right now. It doesn't matter where you're starting from. What matters is that you are willing to learn.

  T. Harv Eker

  Motivational, Happiness, Happy

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Apr 15, 2015

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• His driving is unbelievable. I don't go that far on my holidays.

  Ian Baker-Finch

  Holiday, Golf, Driving

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