Playing Golf Quotes - Page 5

• I am very proud of the fact I do not cheat when I'm playing golf.

  Barack Obama

  Golf, Proud, Facts

  "Obama Proud He Doesn't Cheat at Golf". Interview with Bill Simmons, nation.foxnews.com. March 1, 2012.

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• If you are really serious about playing golf and playing good golf, stick to the basic fundamentals. Sure, there's going to be a little change here and a change there, but you don't want to make them. You want to stick to the things that you started with, and you learned, and you know how to apply them.

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Fundamentals, Want

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• By the time I retire, I will have fought the best. I will have made my money. Maybe I'll be a boxing commentator. I'll go back to school, definitely. I already have a plan. My life's set. I'll be on an island, married, playing golf in the sun. That will be my life.

  Oscar De La Hoya

  School, Golf, Islands

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• I've been playing golf as long as I've been dancing, since I was 13 or 14. I play off six. I like to get out on a golf course as often as I can.

  Anton du Beke

  Golf, Play, Long

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• I've spent more time playing golf than anything else the last 18 years. Just wanted to be an 80s-shooter. Got there, too.

  Jack Nicholson

  Golf, Years, Lasts

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• Playing golf is like going to a strip joint. After 18 holes you are tired and most of your balls are missing.

  Tim Allen

  Tired, Golf, Missing

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• Talking about golf is always boring. Playing golf can be interesting, but not the part where you try to hit the little ball; only the part where you drive the cart.

  Dave Barry

  Golf, Talking, Interesting

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.104, Ballantine Books

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• What earthly good is golf? Life is stern and life is earnest. We live in a practical age. All around us we see foreign competition making itself unpleasant. And we spend our time playing golf? What do we get out of it? Is golf any use? That's what I'm asking you. Can you name me a single case where devotion to this pestilential pastime has done a man any practical good?

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Golf, Men, Names

  P. G. Wodehouse (2009). “The Clicking of Cuthbert: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I do not look back at what might have been. If I did that, playing golf would drive me crazy.

  Tiger Woods

  Crazy, Athlete, Golf

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• Playing golf is like eating. It's something which has to come naturally.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Eating

  Sam Snead (1961). “Sam Snead on golf”

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• Playing golf is like raising children. You keep thinking you'll do better next time.

  Charles E. McKenzie

  Children, Golf, Thinking

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• If I did that, playing golf would drive me crazy.

  John Nestor

  Crazy, Athlete, Golf

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• I've had the luxury of playing golf around the world, and I've spent a lot of time evaluating how to play all kinds of courses.

  Tiger Woods

  Golf, Play, Luxury

  "Tiger Woods, Golf Course Designer" by Matt Ufford, uproxx.com. November 06, 2006.

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• I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait.

  Cameron Diaz

  Birthday, Beach, Golf

  "Cameron Diaz Goes to Drama for In Her Shoes". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. October 4, 2005.

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• I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations - that's why we got married really quickly.

  Sean Connery

  Golf, Speak English, Speaks French

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• I always thought of myself as some sort of athlete until I started playing golf a couple years ago.

  James Caan

  Couple, Athlete, Golf

  "James Caan: What I've Learned". Interview with Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• I started playing golf when I was a kid, because across the street from where we lived there was a little nine-hole golf course where my father worked.

  Lewis Black

  Father, Kids, Golf

  "Lewis Black on the things he'll always love". Interview with David Wolinsky, www.avclub.com. February 15, 2010.

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• I'll tell you what, I've been in some seriously bad places playing golf and it's just part of the game.

  Tiger Woods

  Golf, Games

  Interview by Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. October 13, 2006.

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• I enjoy now doing what I do... playing golf, relaxing a little, enjoying life.

  Yogi Berra

  Golf, Enjoy Life, Littles

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• How can you get tired of playing golf?

  Ray Floyd

  Tired, Golf

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• Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

  Bill Simmons

  Writing, Golf, Swings

  "Interview with Bill Simmons, Author of The Book of Basketball". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• And you fathers, are you so busy making a living, playing golf, bowling, hunting, that you do not have time to talk to your boys and hold them close to you and win their confidence? Or do you brush them off, so that they dare not come and talk about these things with you?

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Father, Golf, Winning

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• The real way to enjoy playing golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes.

  Bobby Jones

  Real, Golf, Way

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

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• I've been playing golf a long time, although it's not really true that on my first round they strapped my bag on the back of a dinosaur.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, Golf

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• I have a project at HBO and one at the Family Channel coming that are being looked at. Aside from that I am not doing much more than playing golf and some skiing.

  Gil Gerard

  Golf, Hbo, Skiing

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