Walter Hagen Quotes

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  You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

  Walter Hagen

  Inspirational, Life, Attitude

  The Walter Hagen Story ch. 32 (1956)

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• I never played a perfect 18 holes. There is no such thing. I expect to make at least seven mistakes a round. Therefore, when I make a bad shot, I don't worry about it. It is just one of the seven.

  Walter Hagen

  Mistake, Golf, Perfect

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• You don't have the game you played last year or last week. You only have today's game. It may be far from your best, but that's all you've got. Harden your heart and make the best of it.

  Walter Hagen

  Heart, Golf, Years

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• No one remembers who came in second.

  Walter Hagen

  Memories, Remember, Second Place

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

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• If you worry about the ones you missed, you are going to keep missing them.

  Walter Hagen

  Golf, Worry, Missing

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• Every golfer can expect to have four bad shots in a round and when you do, just put them out of your mind. This, of course is hard to do when you've had them and you're not even off the first tee.

  Walter Hagen

  Golf, Mind, Four

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• I would rather be of clear mind and decision with the wrong club than with an unclear mind and the right club.

  Walter Hagen

  Golf, Decision, Mind

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• When I have a match to play, I begin to relax as soon as I wake up. Everything I do, I do slow and easy. That goes for stroking the razor, getting dressed, and eating my breakfast. I'm practically in slow motion. By the time I'm ready to tee off, I'm so used to taking my time that it's impossible to hurry my swing.

  Walter Hagen

  Golf, Swings, Play

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• I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.

  Walter Hagen

  Millionaire, Wanted

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• It takes six years to make a golfer: three to learn the game, then another three to unlearn all you have learned in the first three years. You might be a golfer when you arrive at that stage, but more likely you are just starting.

  Walter Hagen

  Golf, Years, Games

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• Don't forget to stop and smell the roses.

  Walter Hagen

  Smell, Rose, Forget

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• Which one of you is going to be runner-up?

  Walter Hagen

  Golf, Runners, Runner Up

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• Give me a man with big hands and big feet and no brains and I'll make a golfer out of him.

  Walter Hagen

  Golf, Men, Hands

  Quoted in Michael Hobbs The Golf Quotation Book (1992).

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• What a shame to waste those great shots on the practice tee.

  Walter Hagen

  Golf, Practice, Waste

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• Trouble shots are surprisingly easy if you activate your imagination. You simply must be able to imagine exactly what flight the ball will take before you can play any shot well.

  Walter Hagen

  Golf, Play, Imagination

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• My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?

  Walter Hagen

  Thinking, Wonderful, Bunkers

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

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• He may have gone to bed three hours ago, but he knows who he is playing. You can rest assured that he hasn't slept a wink.

  Walter Hagen

  Golf, Gone, May

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• Why waste good shots in practice when you might need them in a match?

  Walter Hagen

  Golf, Practice, Might

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• Whatever happens on the golf course is OK, because if I put the ball in trouble I know that I have the skills to get it out of trouble and back into play.

  Walter Hagen

  Golf, Play, Skills

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• Short putts are missed because it is not physically possible to make the little ball travel over uncertain ground for three or four feet with any degree of regularity.

  Walter Hagen

  Golf, Feet, Degrees

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• Here Eddie, hold the flag while I putt out.

  Walter Hagen

  Golf, Flags

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• It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

  Walter Hagen

  Art, Character, Golf

  "Appreciations With An Essay On Style". Book by Walter Pater, 1889.

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• That's the easiest 69 I ever made.

  Walter Hagen

  Golf, Made

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• Miss a putt for $2,000? Not likely!

  Walter Hagen

  Golf, Missing

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• There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.

  Walter Hagen

  Golf, Missing, Tragedy

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

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