Gary Player Quotes About Golf

Quotes about: Golf

• I am tired of all these golfers who are happy with second place. The only one who will like you if you come in second place is your wife and your dog. And that is only if you have a good wife and a good dog.

  Gary Player

  Dog, Tired, Golf

• It's a marriage. If I had to choose between my wife and my putter, well, I'd miss her.

  Gary Player

  Golf, Wife, Missing

• If you think your hands are more important in your golf swing than your legs, try walking a hole on your hands.

  Gary Player

  Golf, Thinking, Swings

• Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.

  Gary Player

  Golf, Years, Games

  "The Gigantic Book of Golf Quotations". Book edited by Jim Apfelbaum, 2007.

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

  Gary Player

  Golf, Natural, Hard

• If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.

  Gary Player

  Golf, Heaven, Want

• A strong mind is one of the key components that separates the great from the good.

  Gary Player

  Strong, Golf, Keys

• The harder you work, the luckier you get.

  Gary Player

  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

• Everyone wants to be known as a great striker of the ball for some reason. Nobody wants to be called a lucky, one-putting s.o.b.

  Gary Player

  Golf, Lucky, Balls

• When you play the game for fun, it's fun. When you play it for a living, it's a game of sorrows.

  Gary Player

  Fun, Golf, Games

• Golf is a puzzle without an answer.

  Gary Player

  Golf, Answers, Puzzles

  "The Gigantic Book of Golf Quotations". Book edited by Jim Apfelbaum, 2007.

• I always said that if they have a golf course like this in heaven, I want to be the head pro.

  Gary Player

  Golf, Heaven, Want

• I try to work with God as a partner.

  Gary Player

  Golf, Trying, Partners

• I got so strong I felt like a giant.....When I stood on the tee with Arnold and Jack, I was tiny compared to them. But I never believed they were bigger than me. So the mind is so fascinating.

  Gary Player

  Strong, Golf, Mind

• Perhaps the most important thing I can tell you about equipment is to experiment and keep an open mind.

  Gary Player

  Golf, Mind, Important

  Gary Player, Desmond Tolhurst (1988). “Golf Begins at 50: Playing the Lifetime Game Better Than Ever”

• The ideal build for a golfer would be strong hands, big forearms, thin neck, big thighs and a flat chest. He'd look like Popeye.

  Gary Player

  Strong, Golf, Hands

• There is absolutely nothing humorous at the Masters. Here, small dogs do not bark and babies do not cry.

  Gary Player

  Dog, Baby, Humorous

• You can always speak with great authority on how well you played today, but never on how you'll play tomorrow.

  Gary Player

  Golf, Play, Today

• I've studied golf for almost 50 years now and know a hell of a lot about nothing.

  Gary Player

  Golf, Years, Hell

• Enjoy the game. Happy golf is good golf.

  Gary Player

  Golf, Games, Enjoy

• But golf being an international game and everybody loving the game the way they do, if you want to spread the game of golf, it's good that you have great competition.

  Gary Player

  Golf, Games, Competition

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

• Golf asks something of a man. It makes one loathe mediocrity. It seems to say, "If you are going to keep company with me, don't embarrass me.

  Gary Player

  Golf, Men, Mediocrity

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