Great Golf Quotes - Page 4

• A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Skills, Two

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• I'm not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they'd come up sliced.

  Lee Trevino

  Dirty, Golf, Games

  Quoted in Scholastic Coach,'Coaches' Corner', Dec 1982.

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• It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Gains, Shots

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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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• These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

  Sam Snead

  Dirty, Golf, Gold

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• The real reason your pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing at you.

  Phyllis Diller

  Retirement, Real, Golf

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• Never break your putter and your driver in the same round or you're dead.

  Tommy Bolt

  Golf, Break, Drivers

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• It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Sports, Golf, World

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• If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.

  Dean Martin

  Retirement, Drinking, Book

  "Famous drinkers" by Rob Parker, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2004.

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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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• I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sports, Golf, Guitar

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance my left ear is from my right.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Distance, Golf, Ears

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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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• Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.

  Arnold Palmer

  Sports, Golf, Simple

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• Baseball reveals character; golf exposes it.

  Ernie Banks

  Baseball, Character, Golf

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• I had a wonderful experience on the golf course today. I had a hole in nothing. Missed the ball and sank the divot.

  Don Adams

  Golf, Balls, Today

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• It's so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying "Shhh" and not moving a muscle. Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.

  Al McGuire

  Moving, Kids, Golf

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• Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.

  Tiger Woods

  Honesty, Golf, What Matters

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• Forget the last shot. It takes so long to accept that you can't always replicate your swing. The only thing you can control is your attitude toward the next shot.

  Mark McCumber

  Attitude, Golf, Swings

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

  Cary Middlecoff

  Golf, Hitting, Green

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• While playing golf today, I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.

  Henny Youngman

  Golf, Two, Balls

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

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• You don't know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two bucks in your pocket.

  Lee Trevino

  Golf, Play, Two

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• Golf is just a game - and an idiotic game most of the time.

  Mark Calcavecchia

  Golf, Games, Idiotic

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• The older I get, the better I used to be.

  Lee Trevino

  Wine, Golf, Tennis

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• The mind messes up more shots than the body.

  Tommy Bolt

  Golf, Mind, Body

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

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