Golfing Quotes - Page 6

• 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 ain't never had much fun. I ain't never been two inches away from a football. Here guys go fishing on the day of the game, hunting, golfing, and all I want to do is be alone, studying how not to lose.

  Bear Bryant

  Sports, Football, Fun

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• All I've got against golf is it takes you so far from the clubhouse.

  Eric Linklater

  Golf, Golfers, Golf Life

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• One thing about golf is you don't know why you play bad and why you play good.

  George Archer

  Golf, Play, Funny Golf

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• One minute you're bleeding. The next minute you're hemorrhaging. The next minute you're painting the Mona Lisa.

  Mac O'Grady

  Golf, Bleeding, Next

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• Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.

  Grantland Rice

  Philosophy, Golf, Romance

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• My favorite shots are the practice swing and the conceded putt. The rest can never be mastered.

  George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

  Golf, Swings, Practice

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• After all these years, it's still embarrassing for me to play on the American golf tour. Like the time I asked my caddie for a sand wedge and he came back ten minutes later with a ham on rye.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Dirty, Golf, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Keith Michael

  Golf, Mind, Body

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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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• I don't fear death, but I sure don't like those three-footers for par.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Golf, Three, Fear Of Death

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• I never pray to God to make a putt. I pray to God to help me react good if I miss a putt.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Golf, Missing, Helping

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• You can't call it a sport. You don't run, jump, you don't shoot, you don't pass. All you have to do is buy some clothes that don't match.

  Steve Sax

  Sports, Running, Golf

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• Golf is a game that needlessly prolongs the lives of some of our most useless citizens.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Hope, Golf

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• Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Golf, Winning

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• Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Air, Years

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• Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists.

  Heywood Hale Broun

  Golf, Games, Attention

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• There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.

  Ben Hogan

  Sports, Golf, Air

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• Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Management, Talent

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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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• I went to play golf and tried to shoot my age, but I shot my weight instead.

  Bob Hope

  Golf, Play, Age

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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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• Concentrate on hitting the green. The cup will come to you.

  Cary Middlecoff

  Golf, Hitting, Green

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• If you really want to get better at golf, go back and take it up at a much earlier age.

  Tom Mulligan

  Golf, Get Better, Age

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• Nothing goes down slower than a golf handicap.

  Bobby Nichols

  Golf, Handicaps, Great Golf

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