Golf Swing Quotes

• You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Thinking, Swings

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• Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Hair, Swings

  Ben Hogan (2010). “Power Golf”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• I think the golf swing is all about rotation, all about trying to keep the club on plane.

  Tiger Woods

  Golf, Thinking, Swings

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• Having a great golf swing helps under pressure, but golf is a game about scoring. It's like an artist who can get a two-inch brush at Wal-Mart for 20 cents or a fine camel-hair brush from an art store for 20 dollars. The brush doesn't matter - how the finished painting looks is what matters.

  Jerry Pate

  Art, Golf, What Matters

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• The real reason your pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing at you.

  Phyllis Diller

  Retirement, Real, Golf

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• The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.

  John Updike

  Golf, Swings, Trying

  John Updike (2009). “More Matter: Essays and Criticism”, p.124, Random House

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• I don't believe there is anything like a natural golf swing. A golf swing is an unnatural thing, and it has to be developed.

  Ben Hogan

  Believe, Golf, Swings

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• It is more satisfying to be a bad player at golf. The worse you play, the better you remember the occasional good shot.

  Nubar Gulbenkian

  Golf, Player, Remember

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• Swing hard in case you hit it.

  Dan Marino

  Golf, Swings, Inspirational Baseball

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• Tempo is the glue that sticks all elements of the golf swing together.

  Nick Faldo

  Golf, Swings, Together

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• The difference between golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.

  George Deukmejian

  Funny, Lying, Golf

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• Golf is a game in which you yell "for," shoot six, and write down five.

  Paul Harvey

  Writing, Golf, Games

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• The only thing you should force in a golf swing is the club back in the bag.

  Byron Nelson

  Golf, Swings, Bags

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• My body is here, but my mind has already teed off.

  Keith Michael

  Golf, Mind, Body

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• The moment the average golfer attempts to play from long grass or a bunker or from a difficult lie of any kind, he becomes a digger instead of a swinger.

  Bobby Jones

  Lying, Golf, Long Grass

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• The golf swing is among the most stressful and unnatural acts in sports, short of cheering for the Yankees.

  Brad Faxon

  Sports, Cheer, Golf

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• While playing golf today, I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.

  Henny Youngman

  Golf, Two, Balls

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

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• Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

  Tiger Woods

  Basketball, Sports, Sexy

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• I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance my left ear is from my right.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Distance, Golf, Ears

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• Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Sex, Fun

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• You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.

  Lee Trevino

  Sports, Husband, Golf

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• Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything.

  Michael Bamberger

  Golf, Guitar, Tennis

  Michael Bamberger (2007). “This Golfing Life”, p.43, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• After all these years, it's still embarrassing for me to play on the American golf tour. Like the time I asked my caddie for a sand wedge and he came back ten minutes later with a ham on rye.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Dirty, Golf, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch.

  Lee Trevino

  Golf, Swings, Lunch

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• Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.

  Harry Vardon

  Funny, Retirement, Golf

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