Golf Quotes - Page 22

• There are two things you can do with your head down - play golf and pray.

  Lee Trevino

  Play, Two, Praying

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• Golf is like a chain. You always have to work on the weakest links.

  George Archer

  Links, Chains, Weakest Link

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• The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.

  Bobby Jones

  Two, Secret, Three

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• Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.

  Gary Player

  Years, Games, Play

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

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• In order to win, you must play your best golf when you need it most, and play your sloppy stuff when you can afford it. I shall not attempt to explain how you achieve this happy timing.

  Bobby Jones

  Winning, Order, Play

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• I want to be what I've always wanted to be: dominant.

  Tiger Woods

  Want, Wanted, Dominant

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• I may be the only golfer never to have broken a single putter, if you don't count the one I twisted into a loop and threw into a bush.

  Thomas Boswell

  Broken, May, Twisted

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• I don't like to watch golf on television because I can't stand people who whisper.

  David Brenner

  People, Watches, Television

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• No one ever swung too slowly.

  Bobby Jones

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• There are no short hitters on the tour anymore - just long and unbelievably long.

  Sam Snead

  Long, Golfing

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• My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works.

  Tiger Woods

  Sports, Dad, Father

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• Golf is played with a number of striking implements more intricate in shape than those used in any form of recreation except dentistry.

  E. V. Knox

  Numbers, Shapes, Used

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• Golf is a diabolical game. It's easy to make fun of something that's so bizarre, so painful, so humiliating... yet so joyous.

  Ken Green

  Fun, Games, Painful

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• There are no absolutes in golf. Golf is such an individual game, and no two people swing alike.

  Kathy Whitworth

  Swings, Games, Two

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• Playing golf is like raising children. You keep thinking you'll do better next time.

  Charles E. McKenzie

  Children, Thinking, Next

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• Golf is to me what his Sabine farm was to the poet Horace - a solace and an inspiration.

  Ramsay MacDonald

  Inspiration, Poet, Solace

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• The fun part of golf is the variety of shots. In football you can do anything with a ball, but you can do anything with a golf ball as well. When you hit a shot and the ball does exactly what you want it to do ... that's wonderful. It's just great when you hit the ball well. You should always try not to make the ball cry.

  Johan Cruijff

  Football, Fun, Trying

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• We can get so much out of golf. I know I have, and I'd like to see the same for you. Golf is the game of a lifetime, one in which you can get better and better. It's not what you do that counts, but what you attempt to do.

  George Knudson

  Games, Get Better, Lifetime

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• Golf is not sacred, and there is no use getting so gosh-darned solemn about it.

  Don Herold

  Use, Sacred, Solemn

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• Golf is not a wrestle with Bogey; it is not a struggle with your mortal foe; it is a physiological, psychological and moral fight with your self; it is a test of mastery over self; and the ultimate and irreducible element of the game is to determine which of the players is the more worthy combatant.

  Arnold Haultain

  Struggle, Fighting, Player

  Arnold Haultain (1912). “The Mystery of Golf”

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• The average player would rather play than watch. Those who don't play can't possibly appreciate the subtleties of the game. Trying to get their attention with golf is like selling Shakespeare in the neighbourhood saloon.

  Bob Toski

  Player, Average, Games

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• Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.

  Bobby Jones

  Ambition, Too Much, Bunkers

  Bobby Jones (1966). “Bobby Jones on Golf”, Main Street Books

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• I like going there for golf. America is one vast golf course today.

  King Edward VIII

  America, Today, Courses

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• Bad putting is due more to the effect the green has upon the player than it has upon the action of the ball.

  Bobby Jones

  Player, Balls, Green

  Bobby Jones (1966). “Bobby Jones on Golf”, Main Street Books

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• I didn't hit the ball like I was 46. But I putted like I was 66.

  Fred Couples

  Balls

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