Golf Quotes - Page 19

• After you have the basics down it's all mental.

  Ken Venturi

  Basics

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• If I've got a swing, I've got a shot.

  Bubba Watson

  Swings, Shots, Ifs

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• I was shooting in the low 70s and 60s by the time I was twelve. That's the great thing about golf. It doesn't matter how old or young you are; if you're 90 and can shoot a good score, people will want to play with you.

  Bubba Watson

  Play, People, Twelve

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• I just hitch up my girdle and let 'er fly.

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias

  Girdles

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• Golfers should not fail to realize that it is a game of great traditions, of high ideals of sportsmanship, one in which a strict adherence to the rules is essential.

  Francis Ouimet

  Games, Sportsmanship, Adherence

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• The rules are simple and easily understood by anyone who has once seen the game, but to the totally uninitiated they appear to be hopelessly unintelligible.

  John Adams Gilmer

  Simple, Games, Understood

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• To help your concentration, don't take too much time.

  Pam Barnett

  Too Much, Helping, Concentration

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• One of the things my dad kept instilling in me was the joy of the game. He made it fun for me. A lot of the time I see kids that don't enjoy being out there and that's a shame; you're supposed to enjoy the game.

  Tiger Woods

  Fun, Dad, Kids

  "Talk Asia" with Lorraine Hahn, cnn.com. December 23, 2001.

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• When I play my best golf, I feel as if I'm in a fog, standing back watching the earth in orbit with a golf club in my hands.

  Mickey Wright

  Play, Fog, Hands

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• I realized that the secret to golf isn't how low you shoot when it's going good, it's how to make your bad rounds better.

  Notah Begay III

  Secret, Lows, I Realized

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• The basic philosophy behind [switch putting] is you always want a hook putt. So for a left-to-right breaking putt, you're going to want to hit it left-handed and vice versa.

  Notah Begay III

  Philosophy, Want, Vices

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• In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically.

  Pete Sampras

  Sports, Couple, Mistake

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• We were all born with webbed feet and a golf club in our hand.

  Old Tom Morris

  Hands, Feet, Clubs

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• Golf is a lot like sex. It's something you can enjoy all your life. And if you remain an amateur, you get to pick your own playing partners.

  Jess Sweetser

  Sex, Partners, Enjoy

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• Anyone who knows Dan Quayle knows that he would rather play golf than have sex any day.

  Marilyn Quayle

  Sex, Play

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• Nonchalant putts count the same as chalant putts.

  Henry Beard

  Nonchalant, Golf Jokes

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• Bets lengthen putts and shorten drives.

  Henry Beard

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• Some golfers fantasize about playing in a foursome with Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Sam Snead. The way I hit I'd rather play in a foursome with Helen Keller, Ray Charles, and Stevie Wonder.

  Bruce Lansky

  Play, Rays, Way

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• I do plan to return to golf one day. I just don't know when that day will be.

  Tiger Woods

  One Day, Return, Plans

  "Poll Suggests Most Americans Believe Tiger Woods Is Sorry for Infidelity" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. February 19, 2010.

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• I think golf is a waste of time and a waste of a sunny afternoon. I also stink at it. I have never found anything, including divorce and a sexual harassment suit, more frustrating.

  Jay Mohr

  Divorce, Thinking, Sunny Afternoon

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• The putter looks like a bunch of nuts and bolts welded together, but the ball goes in the hole.

  Julius Boros

  Nuts, Together, Balls

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• I play a lot of charity golf mainly. I'm a bandit 18 if I play two or three times a week.

  Eric Bristow

  Play, Two, Three

  "Small Talk: Eric Bristow". Interview with Nick Harper, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2003.

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• I am relying on the theory that playing golf is just like riding a bike and that I haven't forgotten how.

  Jennifer Wyatt

  Riding, Forgotten, Theory

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• Trouble is bad to get into but fun to get out of. If you're in trouble, eighty percent of the time there's a way out. If you can see the ball, you can probably hit it; and if you can hit it, you can move it; and if you can move it, you might be able to knock it in the hole. At least it's fun to try.

  Arnold Palmer

  Fun, Moving, Trying

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• There are two basic rules which should never be broken. Be subtle. And don't, for God's sake, try to do business with anyone who's having a bad game.

  William Davis

  Games, Two, Broken

  William Davis (1973). “The Punch book of golf”

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