Golf Quotes

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  I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

  Arnold Palmer

  Sports, Perseverance, Determination

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• Fairway: a narrow strip of mown grass that separates two groups of golfers looking for lost balls in the rough.

  Henry Beard

  Two, Groups, Balls

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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

  Mind, Four, Firsts

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• The chief object of every golf architect or greenkeeper worth his salt is to imitate the beauties of nature so closely as to make his work indistinguishable from nature itself.

  Alister MacKenzie

  Salt, Nature Beauty, Architect

  Alister MacKenzie (2015). “Golf Architecture: Economy in Course Construction and Greenkeeping”, p.13, Coventry House Publishing

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• I get way more nervous playing golf in front of 500 people than being on stage in front of 20,000 people.

  Justin Timberlake

  People, Way, Nervous

  "Boy bander who bombs: Justin Timberlake hits booming drives when he's not on stage". Interview with Chris Baldwin, www.badgolfer.com. March 16, 2006.

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• If you'd offered me a 69 at the start this morning I'd have been all over you!

  Sam Torrance

  Morning, Over You, Has Beens

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  The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.

  Arnold Palmer

  Graduation, Inspiration, Challenges

  FaceBook post by Arnold Palmer from Oct 04, 2016

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• I'm in the woods so much I can tell you which plants are edible.

  Lee Trevino

  Woods, Plant, I Can

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• Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life not to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy.

  Amy Alcott

  Life, Stress, Games

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• Be decisive. A wrong decision is generally less disastrous than indecision.

  Bernhard Langer

  Decision, Indecision, Wrong Decision

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• Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Games, Balls

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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

  Bobby Jones

  Thinking, Swings, Funny Golf

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• A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill.

  Ben Hogan

  Skills, Two, Feet

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• Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.

  Ben Hogan

  Sports, Winning, Balls

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• I don't fear death, but I sure don't like those three-footers for par.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Three, Fear Of Death, Funny Golf

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• Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe.

  Lee Trevino

  Thinking, Games, People

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• Hitting the ball is the fun part of it, but the fewer times you hit the ball the more fun you have.

  Lou Graham

  Fun, Balls, Hitting

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• I always like to see a person stand up to a golf ball as though he were perfectly at home in its presence.

  Bobby Jones

  Home, Balls, Persons

  Bobby Jones (1966). “Bobby Jones on Golf”, Main Street Books

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• How did I make a twelve on a par five hole? It's simple - I missed a four foot putt for an eleven.

  Arnold Palmer

  Simple, Feet, Twelve

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• These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

  Sam Snead

  Dirty, Gold, Shadow

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• Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.

  Arnold Palmer

  Sports, Simple, Games

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• Golf is not, and never has been, a fair game.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Games, Fair Game, Has Beens

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• If I can raise more money for charities, or get more Canadian kids to play golf, the green jacket will mean even more.

  Mike Weir

  Sports, Money, Mean

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• Golf is a terrible, hopeless addiction, it seems: it makes its devotees willing to trudge miles in any manner of weather, lugging a huge, incommodious and appallingly heavy bag with them, in pursuit of a tiny and fantastically expensive ball, in a fanatical attempt to direct it into a hole the size of a beer glass half a mile away. If anything could be better calculated to convince one of the essential lunacy of the human race, I haven't found it.

  Mike Seabrook

  Beer, Glasses, Race

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• I had very low expectations. Honestly, I think I had 11 rounds of golf the entire year in before this tournament, and I had hit balls maybe four or five times.

  Trent Dilfer

  Sports, Thinking, Years

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