Golf Quotes - Page 11

• If you think your hands are more important in your golf swing than your legs, try walking a hole on your hands.

  Gary Player

  Thinking, Swings, Hands

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• The less said about the putter the better. Here is an instrument of torture, designed by Tantalus and forged in the devil's own smithy.

  Tony Lema

  Devil, Said, Instruments

  Anthony David Lema, Tony Lema (1966). “Champagne Golf”

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• My wife, she still gives me a hard time, and says I hunt too much or I like to play golf too much. And she's probably right, but it sure beats some of the things I used to do.

  Brett Favre

  Sports, Hard Times, Play

  "Sunday Conversation: Brett Favre". Interview With Suzy Kolber, www.espn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Years, Serious, May

  P. G. Wodehouse, D. R. Bensen (1999). “Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf”, p.201, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Golf is like an 18-year-old girl with big boobs. You know it's wrong but you can't keep away from her.

  Val Doonican

  Girl, Years, Bigs

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• The only shots you can be sure of are those you've had already.

  Byron Nelson

  Golfers, Shots

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• I went to play golf and tried to shoot my age, but I shot my weight instead.

  Bob Hope

  Play, Age, Weight

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• The older I get, the better I was.

  Van Dyke Parks

  Wine, Age, Getting Older

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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, Games

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• I like trying to win. That's what golf is all about.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Winning, Trying

  Twitter post from Apr 5, 2016

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• Golf is a non-violent game played violently from within.

  Bob Toski

  Games, Violent, Non Violent

  Bob Toski, Jerry Tarde (1981). “Golf for a Lifetime!”

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• The other day I broke 70. That's a lot of clubs.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Clubs

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• I don't think I'll live long enough to shoot my age. I'm lucky to shoot my weight.

  Bruce Lansky

  Thinking, Long, Age

  Bruce Lansky (2011). “Golf, It's Just a Game: The Best Quotes & Cartoons About Golf”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• I've always tried to play golf with a golf club. I have a hard time driving with my rifle. I mean, 18 is really narrow ... I have no problem with the course, except for the tee shot on 18.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Mean, Hard Times, Play

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• My best score ever was 103, but I've only been playing 15 years.

  Alex Karras

  Years, Score, Golfers

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• One thing I've learned over time is, if you hit a golf ball into water, it won't float.

  Arnold Palmer

  Water, Balls, I've Learned

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• When you play the game for fun, it's fun. When you play it for a living, it's a game of sorrows.

  Gary Player

  Fun, Games, Play

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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

  Heaven, Want, Augusta National

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• Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Birthday, Age, Young

  Nods and Becks (1944)

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• I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Baseball, Mlb, Play

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• I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.

  Ben Hogan

  Home, Games, Language

  Ben Hogan (1985). “Ben Hogan's Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's.

  Grantland Rice

  Giving, Opponents, Human Nature

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• Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists.

  Heywood Hale Broun

  Games, Attention, Measurement

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• The more you play it the less you know about it.

  Patty Berg

  Play, Knows, Funny Golf

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• The trouble that most of us find with the modern matched sets of clubs is that they don't really seem to know any more about the game than the old ones did.

  Robert Browning

  Games, Clubs, Trouble

  Robert Browning (1985). “A History of Golf”

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