Golf Life Quotes

• How did I make a twelve on a par five hole? It's simple - I missed a four foot putt for an eleven.

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Simple, Feet

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• Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies.

  Bobby Jones

  Lying, Golf, Games

  "Bobby Jones said play the ball as it lies. Tiger Woods has done just that", www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

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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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• The most important shot in golf is the next one.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Important, The Next One

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• No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why golf is the greatest of games. You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Men, Games

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• Golf is golf. You hit the ball, you go find it. Then you hit it again.

  Lon Hinkle

  Golf, Balls, Golf Ball

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• "After all, golf is only a game", said Millicent. Women say these things without thinking. It does not mean that there is any kink in their character. They simply don't realise what they are saying.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Character, Mean, Golf

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• Art said he wanted to get more distance. I told him to hit it and run backward.

  Ken Venturi

  Running, Art, Distance

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• There are two things you can do with your head down - play golf and pray.

  Lee Trevino

  Golf, Play, Two

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• Trevino is in a league by himself. We don't even count him. We figure when you come in second, you're a winner.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Golf, League, Winner

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• Yeah, after each of my downhill putts.

  Homero Blancas

  Golf, Yeah, Golfers

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• What's nice about our tour is you can't remember your bad shots.

  Bob Bruce

  Nice, Golf, Remember

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• A golf ball is like a clock. Always hit it at 6 o'clock and make it go toward 12 o'clock. But make sure you're in the same time zone.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Golf, Time Zones, Balls

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• Who watches golf on TV? Who calls eight friends over and gets a keg of beer? Landscapers, I guess. They sit around the TV, yelling, "Will you look at that golf path?Pure pea gravel."

  Jeff Cesario

  Beer, Golf, Yelling

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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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• Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.

  Abba Eban

  Humility, Golf, Futility Of Life

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• Any game where a man 60 can beat a man 30 ain't no game.

  Burt Shotton

  Golf, Men, Games

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• Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt.

  Fletcher Knebel

  Golf, Men, Feet

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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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• The woods are full of long drivers.

  Harvey Penick

  Golf, Long, Woods

  Harvey Penick, Davis Love III (2012). “Harvey Penick's Little Red Book: Lessons And Teachings From A Lifetime In Golf”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• I'd play every day if I could. It's cheaper than a shrink and there are no telephones on my golf cart.

  Brent Musburger

  Golf, Play, Telephones

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• Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.

  Alistair Cooke

  Ambition, Golf, Skills

  Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.61, Arcade Publishing

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

  Eric Linklater

  Golf, Golfers, Golfing

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• Golf is like a chain. You always have to work on the weakest links.

  George Archer

  Golf, Links, Chains

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• Out here, it's just you and the ball.

  Mike Weir

  Golf, Balls, Bagger

  "Go Set a Watchman: first chapter released - as it happened" by Helen Davidson, Matthew Weaver, Lanre Bakare, Michelle Dean, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2015.

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