Golf Quotes - Page 20

• Little Bobby Jones of Atlanta is really a fine player, and shows every indication of becoming a tremendous great one, once he is master of himself, which must come with maturity.

  A. W. Tillinghast

  Maturity, Player, Atlanta

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• Golf is the only-est sport. You're completely alone with every conceivable opportunity to defeat yourself. Golf brings out your assets and liabilities as a person. The longer you play, the more certain you are that a man's performance is the outward manifestation of who, in his heart, he really thinks he is.

  Hale Irwin

  Sports, Heart, Opportunity

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• All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?

  Willie Nelson

  Giving Up, Play, Want

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• There are two things you can learn by stopping your backswing at the top and checking the position of your hands; how many hands you have, and which one is wearing the glove.

  Tom Mulligan

  Hands, Two, Stopping

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• I have never felt so lonely as on a golf course in the midst of a championship with thousands of people around, especially when things began to go wrong and the crowds started wandering away.

  Bobby Jones

  Lonely, People, Crowds

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• Hit the ball up to the hole... You meet a better class of people up there.

  Ben Hogan

  Class, People, Balls

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• I hate a hook. It nauseates me. I could vomit when I see one. It's like a rattlesnake in your pocket.

  Ben Hogan

  Hate, Pockets, Hook

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• [Jack Nicklaus] was the first to bring in course management. He could go to a course and tell you within one stroke what was going to win. He used to set his sights on that because he could shoot it. He was the only player I know who, if he decided he wanted to win a tournament, could go out and do it. No one will ever be as popular as Arnold Palmer and no one will ever come close to Jack as a player.

  Lee Trevino

  Winning, Player, Sight

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• I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Thinking, Failing, Bits

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

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• It's OK to have butterflies. Just get them flying in formation.

  Francisco Lopez

  Butterfly, Flying, Formation

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• Those trees seem to grow every year.

  Peter Alliss

  Years, Tree, Grows

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• The last time I had this much fun was a root-canal operation.

  Larry Ziegler

  Fun, Roots, Lasts

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• It's [Augusta National] a difficult course and it doesn't make it easier when you have three shanks.

  Ian Poulter

  Three, Augusta National, Easier

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• The good chip allows you to whistle while you walk in the dark alleys of golf.

  Tommy Bolt

  Dark, Chips, Alleys

  Tommy Bolt, William C. Griffith (1969). “How to keep your temper on the golf course”

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• The reason the Road Hole at St. Andrews is the most difficult par 4 in the world is that it was designed as a par 6.

  Ben Crenshaw

  World, Reason, Holes

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• If you're going to miss 'em, miss 'em quick.

  George Duncan

  Missing, Ems, Ifs

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• Never try a shot you haven't practised.

  Harvey Penick

  Trying, Shots, Havens

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• In golf, humiliations are the essence of the game.

  Alistair Cooke

  Essence, Games, Humiliation

  "The Marvellous Mania: Alistair Cooke on Golf".

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• The last thing you want to do is shoot 80 wearing 'tartan troosers'.

  Ian Poulter

  Want, Lasts, Portal

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• It is impossible to outplay an opponent you can't outthink.

  Lawson Little

  Opponents, Impossible

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• Why do we work so hard to feel so terrible?

  Hollis Stacy

  Terrible, Feels, Hard

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• Those who the gods seek to destroy first, learn how to play golf.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Play, Firsts

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• The game embarrasses you until you feel inadequate.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Games, Feels, Inadequate

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• I never knew what top golf was like until I turned professional. Then it was too late.

  Steve Melnyk

  Too Late, Late

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• It's a heck of a lot harder to stay on top than it is to get there.

  Tom Kite

  Harder

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