Augusta Quotes

• If you have an ego of any sort, this course [Augusta] will take it and shove it down your throat.

  Tom Watson

  Golf, Ego, Throat

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• If we had to play Augusta National in one hour, the best athlete would win the Masters. But as it is, they give us time to hang ourselves. Every swing is a 'thought shot'. So instead of the best athlete, you end up with the best thinker as the winner.

  Joe Inman

  Athlete, Golf, Winning

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• The Masters is one of golf's greatest traditions and Augusta is one of the best courses in the world. They are synonymous. It's an event that every golfer, and golf fan, looks forward to.

  Mike Weir

  Golf, Events, Fans

  Skysports.com Interview, www.skysports.com. July 03, 2011.

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• There isn't a hole out there [Augusta] that can't be birdied if you just think. But there isn't one that can't be double-bogeyed if you stop thinking.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Thinking, Holes

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• 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

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• The Masters is where I won my first major, and I view this tournament with great respect. After a long and necessary time away from the game, I feel like I'm ready to start my season at Augusta.

  Tiger Woods

  Respect, Views, Games

  "Tiger Woods to play Masters next month" by James Hibberd, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 16, 2010.

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• They don't cut the greens here at Augusta. they use bikini wax.

  Gary McCord

  Cutting, Use, Bikinis

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• The major championships have always been a special focus in my career and, as a professional, I think Augusta is where I need to be.

  Tiger Woods

  Thinking, Careers, Focus

  "Tiger Woods to return to golf at Masters". www.cnn.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I enjoy Augusta. I enjoy its challenges. There's no other golf course like this anywhere. Its greens and its challenges on and around the greens are just super, super tough. So the greens are fun to play in sort of a morbid way

  Ben Crenshaw

  Fun, Golf, Play

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• Augusta National is a young man's golf course, and you really need a young man's nerves to play on it.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Men, Play

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• If you go to Atlanta, the first question people ask you is, "What's your business?" In Macon they ask, "Where do you go to church?" In Augusta they ask your grandmother's maiden name. But in Savannah the first question people ask you is "What would you like to drink?"

  John Berendt

  Grandmother, Atlanta, Names

  "Even in the Best of Cities" by Jonathan Yardley, www.washingtonpost.com. February 06, 1994.

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• Playing Augusta is like playing a Salvador Dali landscape. I expected a clock to fall out of the trees and hit me in the face.

  David Feherty

  Fall, Golf, Tree

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• I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in her life, may she rest in peace. Because that deed saved my life, if not sooner, then later, when sometimes the only thing I had to hold on to was knowing I could read.

  Audre Lorde

  Rest In Peace, Children, Reading

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• There are a lot of great players from Europe who have never played Augusta, but all the guys in America have all played St. Andrews. They've gone over and made a trip to play St. Andrews.

  Tiger Woods

  Player, America, Europe

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.

  Yani Tseng

  Beautiful, Golf, Fabulous

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• This will be my 54th trip to Augusta. I got $20,000 for winning the Masters. Now I get $10,000 to go there and eat a free steak.

  Bob Goalby

  Winning, Steak, Masters

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• My wife says, and I agree with her, that what would be really great for Maine would be to legalize dope completely and set up dope stores the way that there are state-run liquor stores. You could get your Acapulco gold or your whatever it happened to be - your Augusta gold or your Bangor gold. And people would come from all the other states to buy it, and there could be a state tax on it. Then everybody in Maine could have a Cadillac.

  Stephen King

  Running, Dope, People

  Stephen King, Tim Underwood, Chuck Miller (1988). “Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Oakmont is probably the premier - Oakmont and Augusta National are probably the top two set of greens in the country.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Country, Two, Augusta National

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

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• Well, I think that Augusta is not the same golf course that I grew up on. Bobby Jones' philosophy was giving you space off the tee; if you put it in the right side of the fairway, you ended up getting the right angle to the green.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Philosophy, Golf, Thinking

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• If you let it, the Masters will play you instead of you playing it. Augusta National can pamper you right off the bottom of the leader board. Pampered before and after your round, but mentally and emotionally pulverized during them - that's the formula.

  Joe Inman

  Golf, Play, Leader

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• I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Beach, Golf, Thinking

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• Ben Hogan was not really a big hitter. He was long enough. But Ben Hogan today? Ben Hogan today could not compete at Augusta because he did not have the massive length to compete against the long hitters. Power was always an issue at Augusta, but never so dominant that you couldn't play it.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Play, Issues, Long

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• Golf is a game to me. Other players work extremely hard all year long. I work hard before Augusta. I know I get good results when I practice, but it also wears me out. It literally wore me out even when I was in my 20s.

  Fred Couples

  Hard Work, Golf, Player

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• Bunbury? Oh, he was quite exploded. Exploded! Was he the victim of a revolutionary outrage? I was not aware that Mr. Bunbury was interested in social legislation. If so, he is well punished for his morbidity. My dear Aunt Augusta, I mean he was found out! The doctors found out that Bunbury could not , that is what I mean—so Bunbury died. He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mean, Aunt, Doctors

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• Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well. Algernon. I’m feeling very well, Aunt Augusta. Lady Bracknell. That’s not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together.

  Oscar Wilde

  Aunt, Two, Feelings

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.11, Xist Publishing

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