Golf Quotes - Page 12

• Nothing goes down slower than a golf handicap.

  Bobby Nichols

  Handicaps, Great Golf, Golfing

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• Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Long Walks, Two, Sticks

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.265, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near him and audibly count his strokes. It would be justifiable homicide if he wound up his pitiable exhibition by applying his niblick to your head.

  Harry Vardon

  Would Be, Exhibitions, Opponents

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• Putting allows the touchy golfer two to four opportunities to blow a gasket in the short space of two to forty feet.

  Tommy Bolt

  Funny, Dirty, Blow

  "Golf: The Game of Lessening Failures". Book by Bob Glanville, 2010.

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• Through the ball we are all the same. We just have different ways of getting it there.

  Charles Coody

  Different, Balls, Way

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• You know what they say about big hitters...the woods are full of them.

  Jimmy Demaret

  Funny, Sports, Woods

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• Out here, it's just you and the ball.

  Mike Weir

  Balls, Bagger, Golf Life

  "Go Set a Watchman: first chapter released - as it happened" by Helen Davidson, Matthew Weaver, Lanre Bakare, Michelle Dean, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2015.

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• Golf has probably kept more people sane than psychiatrists have.

  Harvey Penick

  Funny, People, Psychiatrist

  Harvey Penick, Bud Shrake, Edwin Shrake (1997). “The Wisdom of Harvey Penick”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• I miss. I miss. I miss. I make.

  Seve Ballesteros

  Missing

  "The escape artist" by Rick Reilly, www.espn.com. May 7, 2011.

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• A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Space, House, Epitome

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”

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• In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.

  Ken Harrelson

  Leadership, Baseball, Running

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• Golf is a game where white men can dress up as black pimps and get away with it.

  Robin Williams

  Men, White Man, Games

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• When your shot has to carry over a water hazard, you can either hit one more club or two more balls.

  Henry Beard

  Two, Water, Hazards

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• On a recent survey, 80 percent of golfers admitted cheating. The other 20 percent lied.

  Bruce Lansky

  Cheating, Lied, Surveys

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• It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification.

  Bruce McCall

  Dream, Self, Games

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• Duffers who consistently shank their balls are urged to buy and study Shanks - No Thanks by R.K. Hoffman, or in extreme cases, M.S. Howard's excellent Tennis for Beginners.

  Henry Beard

  Tennis, Beginners, Balls

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• I am the toughest golfer mentally.

  Tiger Woods

  Golfers

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• Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.

  Celine Dion

  Hands, Perfection, Meditation

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• I like to play in the low 70's. If it gets any hotter than that I'll stay in the bar!

  Bob Hope

  Play, Bars, Comedy

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• I like to play golf. I like to shoot hoops.

  Justin Timberlake

  Play

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• Nobody but you and your caddie care what you do out there, and if your caddie is betting against you, he doesn't care, either.

  Lee Trevino

  Caddies, Care, Betting

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• Everybody can see that my swing is homegrown. That means everybody has a chance to do it.

  Bubba Watson

  Mean, Swings, Chance

  "Masters champion Bubba Watson returns to action with 'Bubba golf'" by Lawrence Donegan, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2012.

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• It's so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying "Shhh" and not moving a muscle. Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.

  Al McGuire

  Moving, Kids, Feet

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• Golf is an indispensable adjunct to high civilisation.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Indispensable, Civilisation

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• I enjoy the oohs! and aahs! from the gallery when I hit my drives. But I'm getting pretty tired of the awws! and uhhs! when I miss the putt.

  John Daly

  Tired, Missing, Gallery

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