Great Golf Quotes

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

  Gary Player

  Golf, Natural, Hard

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• A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Golf, Clubs

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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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• Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Dimes, Whiskey

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• The ball retriever is not long enough to get my putter out of the tree.

  Brian Weiss

  Golf, Long, Tree

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• I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Persistence, Games

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• If I had cleared the trees and drove the green, it would've been a great shot.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Tree, Green

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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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• I've heard people say putting is 50 percent technique and 50 percent mental. I really believe it is 50 percent technique and 90 percent positive thinking, see, but that adds up to 140 percent, which is why nobody is 100 percent sure how to putt.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Believe, Positive Thinking, Golf

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• Bad putting is due more to the effect the green has upon the player than it has upon the action of the ball.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Player, Balls

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

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• I'm the best. I just haven't played yet.

  Muhammad Ali

  Golf, Boxing, Havens

  Twitter post from Sep 02, 2012

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• When you lip out several putts in a row, you should never think that means that you're putting well. When you're putting well, the only question is what part of the hole it's going to fall in, not if it's going in.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Fall, Mean, Golf

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• It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.

  Bobby Jones

  Passion, Golf, Games

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

  Keith Michael

  Golf, Mind, Body

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• Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?

  Ben Hogan

  Funny, Sports, Athlete

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• A good one iron shot is about as easy to come by as an understanding wife.

  Dan Jenkins

  Golf, Iron, Wife

  Dan Jenkins (2010). “Dead Solid Perfect”, p.4, Anchor

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• Forget your opponents; always play against par.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Play, Focus

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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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• The more you play it the less you know about it.

  Patty Berg

  Golf, Play, Knows

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• For this game you need, above all things, to be in a tranquil frame of mind.

  Harry Vardon

  Golf, Games, Mind

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• The more I practice, the luckier I get.

  Jerry Barber

  Sports, Volleyball, Golf

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• Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

  Arnold Palmer

  Motivational, Sports, Golf

  FaceBook post by Arnold Palmer from Oct 04, 2016

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• Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Golf, Games

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Golf, Long Walks, Two

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.265, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

  William Wordsworth

  Sports, Retirement, Golf

  'The Prelude' (1850) bk. 4, l. 376

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