Golf Quotes - Page 13

• The three things I fear most in golf are lightning, Ben Hogan and a downhill putt.

  Sam Snead

  Lightning, Three, Three Things

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• Give me a man with big hands and big feet and no brains and I'll make a golfer out of him.

  Walter Hagen

  Men, Hands, Feet

  Quoted in Michael Hobbs The Golf Quotation Book (1992).

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• Golf requires only a few simple Rules and Regulations to guide the players in the true nature of its sporting appeal. The spirit of the game is its own referee.

  Robert Harris

  Simple, Player, Games

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• Golf does strange things to other people, too. It makes liars out of honest men, cheats out of altruists, cowards out of brave men and fools out of everybody.

  Milt Gross

  Liars, Men, People

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• Be funny on a golf course? Do I kid my best friend's mother about her heart condition?

  Phil Silvers

  Mother, Kids, Heart

  Quoted in Michael Hobbs The Golf Quotation Book (1992).

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• A good golf course is like good music or good anything else; it is not necessarily a course which appeals the first time one plays over it, but one which grows on the player the more frequently he visits it.

  Alister MacKenzie

  Play, Firsts, Doe

  "Golf Architecture: Economy in Course Construction and Greenkeeping".

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• No golfer can ever become too good to practice.

  May Hezlet

  Practice, Golfers

  May Hezlet (1907). “Ladies' Golf”

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• The reason they call if 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Letters, Reason, Used

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• Golf is the only game that pits the player against an opponent, the weather, the minutest details of a large chunk of local topography and his own nervous system, all at the same time.

  Mike Seabrook

  Player, Games, Weather

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• You know why the game of golf is popular? Very easy, it's a great game.

  Bernhard Langer

  Sports, Games, Easy

  Interview with Julius Mason, www.rydercup.com. September 14, 2004.

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• The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.

  Confucius

  Distance, Two, Tree

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• I'm addicted. I'm addicted to golf.

  Tiger Woods

  Sports

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• If you think golf is relaxing, you're not playing it right.

  Bob Hope

  Thinking, Ifs

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• How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Funny, Sports, Retirement

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

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Sex, Fun

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

  Madonna Ciccone

  Sex, Fun, Fishing

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• I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

  Arnold Palmer

  Sports, Perseverance, Winning

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• I'm the best. I just haven't played yet.

  Muhammad Ali

  Boxing, Havens, Funny Golf

  Twitter post from Sep 02, 2012

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• Playing golf is like eating. It's something which has to come naturally.

  Sam Snead

  Eating, Playing Golf

  Sam Snead (1961). “Sam Snead on golf”

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• Always remember that however good you may be, the game is your master.

  John Henry Taylor

  Games, May, Remember

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• I accept the fact that I'm going to miss it sometimes. I just hope I miss it where I can find it.

  Fuzzy Zoeller

  Missing, Facts, Sometimes

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• They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why.

  Alistair Cooke

  Years, Said, Has Beens

  Alistair Cooke (2015). “Fun & Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.50, Open Road Media

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• Golf is not a fair game, so why build a course fair?

  Pete Dye

  Games, Fair Game, Courses

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• The only time I talk on the golf course is to my caddie. And then only to complain when he gives me the wrong club.

  Seve Ballesteros

  Giving, Complaining, Caddies

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• Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.

  Billy Casper

  Character, Men, Flames

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