Balls Quotes - Page 25

• There may be a certain amount of pleasurable excitement in running up to the top of a hillock in the hope of seeing your ball near the flag, but this kind of thing one gets tired of as one grows older.

  Alister MacKenzie

  Running, Tired, Golf

  Alister MacKenzie, H.S. Colt , A.W. Tillinghast (2013). “Methods of Early Golf Architecture: The Selected Writings of Alister MacKenzie, H.S. Colt, and A.W. Tillinghast”, p.24, Coventry House Publishing

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• You hear stories about me beating my brains out practising, but the truth is, I was enjoying myself. I couldn't wait to get up in the morning, so I could hit balls. When I'm hitting the ball where I want, hard and crisply, it's a joy that very few people experience.

  Ben Hogan

  Morning, Golf, People

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• The best putting advice I ever received was make sure you concentrate real hard on keeping that darn ball real low

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Real, Golf, Advice

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• When I swing at a golf ball right, my mind is blank and my body is loose as a goose.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Swings, Mind

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• Casey didn't easily forgive a guy who got doubled up on a hit-and-run play. He didn't see any reason why the runner couldn't take a quick glance back toward the plate to make sure the ball was hit safely.

  Mickey Mantle

  Running, Baseball, Play

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• I'm sure glad this isn't my home ball park.

  Hank Aaron

  Baseball, Home, Parks

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• I just wouldn't have believed a ball could be hit that hard. I've never seen anything like it.

  Bucky Harris

  Baseball, Hard

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• If I send the ball home, I know what will happen to it. My twin brothers will take it out on the lot, like any 20-cent rocket.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Brother, Home

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• I'm mad at him, too, for being out late. But I'm not mad enough to take a chance on losing a ball game and possibly the pennant.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Games, Mad

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• Before you go, would you sign that case of balls for me?

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Cases

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• Golf cannot be played in anger, or in any mood of emotiional excess. Half the golf balls struck by amateurs are hit if not in rage surely in bewilderment, or gloom, or in cynicism, or even hysterically - all of those emotional excesses must be contained by the professional. Which is why balance is one of the essential ingredients of golf. Professionals invariably trudge phlegmatically around the course - whatever emotions are seething within - with the grim yet placid and bored look of cowpokes, slack-bodied in their saddles, who have been tending the same herd for two months.

  George Plimpton

  Golf, Emotional, Two

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• There is no truth in the idea that the person who hits the most balls will become the best golfer. Golf is a bizarre sport. You can work for years on your game, without making any improvement in your score.

  Fred Couples

  Sports, Golf, Years

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• There's more tension in golf than in boxing because golfers bring it on themselves. It's silly really because it's not as if the golf ball is going to jump up and belt you on the whiskers, is it?

  Henry Cooper

  Silly, Golf, Boxing

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• A golf ball is white, dimpled like a bishop's knees, and is the size of small mandarin oranges or those huge pills which vets blow down the throats of constipated cart-horses.

  Frank Muir

  Horse, Golf, Blow

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• I realize that's why we play golf, to hit the ball into the hole. But it is a strange feeling when you hit the shot and it actually goes in.

  Hollis Stacy

  Golf, Play, Feelings

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• Of this diversion the Scots are so fond, that, when the weather will permit, you may see a multitude of all ranks, from the senator of justice to the lowest tradesman, mingled together, in their shirts, and following the balls with utmost eagerness.

  Tobias Smollett

  Golf, Weather, Justice

  Tobias Smollett (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Tobias Smollett (Illustrated)”, p.2137, Delphi Classics

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• But there is a difference between playing well and hitting the ball well. Hitting the ball well is about thirty percent of it. The rest is being comfortable with the different situations on the course.

  Mickey Wright

  Golf, Differences, Different

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• The most advanced medical brains in the universe have yet to discover a way for a man to relax himself, and looking at a golf ball is not the cure.

  Milt Gross

  Golf, Men, Brain

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• Hitting a golf ball correctly is the most sophisticated and complicated maneuver in all of sports, with the possible exception of eating a hot dog at a ball game without getting mustard on your shirt.

  Ray Fitzgerald

  Sports, Dog, Golf

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• The smaller the ball used in the sport, the better the book.

  George Plimpton

  Sports, Book, Golf

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• Few golfers are born with the natural talent for hitting the ball, but every player is blessed with the God-given ability to throw a club.

  Henry Beard

  Blessed, Golf, Player

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• Hole in One: an occurence in which a ball is hit directly from the tee into the hole in a single shot by a golfer playing alone.

  Henry Beard

  Golf, Holes, Tees

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• The actual distance a bad golfer is going to hit the ball with any club obviously depends on many factors, not the least of which is whether the ball was actually hit at all.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Distance, Golf, Clubs

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• If the rest of his foursome are bunched directly behind his ball, or assume the foetal position with their backs to the tee, the golfer is reminded that his drive tends to be erratic. More cruel yet is for his opponent to stand directly in the projected line of flight, as the safest place to be.

  Eric Nicol

  Golf, Erratic, Lines

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• In my day we simply didn't believe that it was possible to play as well as these young fellows do. We thought that strength denied touch and that you could not consistently hit the ball both long and straight. It's been proven that you can.

  Byron Nelson

  Believe, Golf, Play

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