Golf Quotes - Page 21

• If I could have shot 69 in the last round every time, I would have won nine U.S. Opens. Nine!

  Sam Snead

  Nine, Lasts, Shots

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• Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.

  Johnny Miller

  Clubs, Enough, Thousand

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• Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.

  Bobby Jones

  Clubs

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• Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.

  Winston Churchill

  Pills, Cows, Chasing

  Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

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• Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.

  Ben Hogan

  Management, Talent, Percent

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• After hitting two balls into the water- By God, I've got a good mind to jump in and make it four.

  Simon Hobday

  Two, Water, Mind

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• For this game you need, above all things, to be in a tranquil frame of mind.

  Harry Vardon

  Games, Mind, Needs

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• If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

  Lou Graham

  Sports, Fighting, Trying

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• If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.

  Lee Trevino

  Sports, Iron, Storm

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• Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

  Jim Bishop

  Funny, Retirement, Native American

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• Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.

  Ben Hogan

  Hair, Swings, Opposites

  Ben Hogan (2010). “Power Golf”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.

  Arnold Palmer

  Games, Strokes, Funny Golf

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• Golf is a good walk spoiled.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Sports, Sarcastic

  Attributed in Reader's Digest, Dec. 1948. Commonly attributed to Twain, but the Stevens Point (Wis.) Daily Journal, 19 Dec. 1913, printed the following without attribution to any named individual: "Golf, of course, has been defined as a good walk spoiled."

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• Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

  John Updike

  Children, Dirty, Past

  John Updike (2011). “Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf”, p.148, Random House

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• Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

  Tiger Woods

  Basketball, Sports, Sexy

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• I never learned anything from a match that I won.

  Bobby Jones

  Funny Golf, Inspirational Golf, Great Golf

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• The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.

  John Updike

  Swings, Trying, Suitcases

  John Updike (2009). “More Matter: Essays and Criticism”, p.124, Random House

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• Golf is golf. You hit the ball, you go find it. Then you hit it again.

  Lon Hinkle

  Balls, Golf Life, Golf Ball

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• Golf is a puzzle without an answer.

  Gary Player

  Answers, Puzzles

  "The Gigantic Book of Golf Quotations". Book edited by Jim Apfelbaum, 2007.

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• There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.

  Ben Hogan

  Sports, Air, Games

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• I would like to deny all allegations by Bob Hope that during my last game of golf, I hit an eagle, a birdie, an elk and a moose.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Dirty, Eagles, Games

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• It is more satisfying to be a bad player at golf. The worse you play, the better you remember the occasional good shot.

  Nubar Gulbenkian

  Player, Remember, Occasional

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  Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.

  Arnold Palmer

  Teamwork, Believe, Character

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• If you really want to get better at golf, go back and take it up at a much earlier age.

  Tom Mulligan

  Get Better, Age, Want

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• Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around.

  Rick Reilly

  School, Games, Lunch

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