Motivational Golf Quotes

• Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Games, Mental Toughness

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

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• Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Giving Up, Golf, Matter

  "Trump goes golfing with Jack Nicklaus, 1 day after hitting the links with Tiger Woods" by David Caplan, abcnews.go.com. November 26, 2017.

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  I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

  Arnold Palmer

  Sports, Perseverance, Determination

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• It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.

  Arnold Palmer

  Funny, Sports, Golf

  FaceBook post by Arnold Palmer from Oct 04, 2016

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• There is no room in your mind for negative thoughts.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Mind, Negative, Rooms

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• I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

  Arnold Palmer

  Sports, Perseverance, Golf

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• It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

  Hank Aaron

  Funny, Sports, Baseball

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• The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Sports, Golf, Games

  Letter on May 15, 1925. "Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917 - 1961", book edited by Carlos Baker, 1981.

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• Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.

  Jack Benny

  Beautiful, Sports, Golf

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• Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

  Dave Barry

  Inspirational, Funny, Sports

  Dave Barry (1985). “Dave Barry's Stay Fit and Healthy Until You're Dead”, p.32, Rodale

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• If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

  Jack Lemmon

  Sports, Dirty, Golf

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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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• Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Hair, Swings

  Ben Hogan (2010). “Power Golf”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the things that my parents have taught me is never listen to other people's expectations. You should live your own life and live up to your own expectations, and those are the only things I really care about it.

  Tiger Woods

  Motivational, Sports, Golf

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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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• Forget your opponents; always play against par.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Play, Focus

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• The more I practice, the luckier I get.

  Jerry Barber

  Sports, Volleyball, Golf

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• The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.

  Ben Hogan

  Sports, Golf, Needs

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• I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Sports, Hate

  Quoted in Michael HobbsThe Golf Quotation Book (1992).

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• If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

  Sam Snead

  Sports, Golf, Knives

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  What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

  Arnold Palmer

  Inspirational Sports, Art, Athlete

  Arnold Palmer (2016). “A Life Well Played: My Stories”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Sports, Inspiration

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• If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Hope, Inspirational Sports

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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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• Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.

  Harry Vardon

  Funny, Retirement, Golf

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