Golf Course Quotes - Page 10

• You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.

  Jello Biafra

  Football, Golf, People

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• Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

  Jim Bishop

  Funny, Retirement, Native American

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• Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It's agriculture. It's golf courses. It's domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf.

  Sylvia Earle

  Golf, Agriculture, United States

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• When I married Wilnelia, one of the first things I wanted to know about Puerto Rico was the quality of the golf courses.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Golf, Quality, Firsts

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• A golf course should aspire to generate as much energy as it consumes - golf should be leading the way toward energy net zero.

  Thomas Friedman

  Zero, Golf, Energy

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• Every golf course should have its carbon rating on the scorecard, alongside its Course Rating, Slope, par and yardage.

  Thomas Friedman

  Golf, Should Have, Rating

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• The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Sports, Golf, Games

  Letter on May 15, 1925. "Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917 - 1961", book edited by Carlos Baker, 1981.

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• Cape Town's beaches are superb and while the water on the Atlantic side is damn cold, it's very pleasant on the other side. Bring your golf clubs if you play - Cape Town has some fabulous golf courses.

  Wilbur Smith

  Beach, Golf, Play

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• There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

  Lee Trevino

  Sports, Perseverance, Golf

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• I think that (Alister) MacKenzie and I managed to work as a completely sympathetic team. Of course there was never any question that he was the architect and I was the advisor and consultant. No man learns to design a golf course simply by playing golf, no matter how well. But it happened that both of us were extravagant admirers of the Old Course at St Andrews and we both desired as much as possible to simulate seaside conditions insofar as the differences in turf and terrain would allow.

  Bobby Jones

  Team, Golf, Men

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• Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Sports, Golf, Games

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• I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes-there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first learned to walk upon a golf course on clean, crisp, mornings.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Sports, Morning, Golf

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1998). “The Great Gatsby”, p.42, OUP Oxford

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• So I do have this ambivalence. Obviously I'm against militaries, because of what militaries do. In many ways though, the air force was unmilitary-like. They dropped bombs on people, but...they had a golf course.

  George Carlin

  Golf, Air, People

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• I am so pleased with my golf course. I am to say that it's the best I've ever seen it - without equivocation.

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Courses

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• I can't afford to be a member of a golf course.

  Jack Abramoff

  Golf, Members, Courses

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• I also play a little bit of Tiger Woods once in awhile. Get on the golf course there, and pretend that I'm beating him.

  Jason Kidd

  Basketball, Golf, Play

  Interview with Jeremy Dunham, www.ign.com. July 17, 2002.

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• Golf courses are becoming far too long. Twenty years ago we played three rounds of golf a day and considered we had taken an interminably long time if we took more than two hours to play a round. Today it not infrequently takes over three hours.

  Alister MacKenzie

  Taken, Golf, Years

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• Nobody ever remembers who finished second at anything.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Remember, Finished

  "Every picture tells a story", www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2002.

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• You can smoke or drink on a golf course without interrupting the game, and you can take a leak - something you can't do on a squash court and shouldn't do in a swimming pool.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Golf, Swimming, Games

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.507, Atlantic Books Ltd

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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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• A fantastic golf course and venue. It's one of those places that you always look forward to going back to...no matter how many times you have been there before.

  Lee Westwood

  Golf, Looks, Matter

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• Having so many gold courses so close together was ideal for me. With my slice I could enjoy three or four golf courses at the same time.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Golf, Together

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• On the value of blind shots to golf course design.

  Alister MacKenzie

  Golf, Design, Blind

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• Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea.

  Anne Sexton

  Dark, Golf, Sea

  Anne Sexton (1974). “The death notebooks”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.

  A. A. Milne

  Bible, Book, Golf

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

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