Golf Quotes - Page 25

• In golf as in life, it's the follow through that makes the difference.

  Ben Wicks

  Differences, Follow Through, Funny Golf

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• "After all, golf is only a game", said Millicent. Women say these things without thinking. It does not mean that there is any kink in their character. They simply don't realise what they are saying.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Character, Mean, Thinking

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• Golf always makes me so damned angry.

  George V

  Angry

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• Never concede the putt that beats you.

  Harry Vardon

  Beats, Great Golf, Golf Putting

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• All other things being equal, greens break to the west.

  Ben Hogan

  West, Break, Equal

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• Show me a golfer who doesn't have a mean streak, and I'll show you a weak competitor.

  Lee Trevino

  Mean, Weak, Show Me

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• Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.

  Jim Bishop

  Twenties, Yards, Mulligans

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• Isn't it fun to go out on the course and lie in the sun?

  Bob Hope

  Fun, Lying, Sun

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• I won't have any competitive instincts in any sports, other than golf. I can't see being competitive in sports any more.

  Michael Jordan

  Sports, Instinct, I Can

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• The harder you work, the luckier you get.

  Gary Player

  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

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• I was swinging like a toilet door on a prawn trawler.

  David Feherty

  Doors, Toilets, Prawns

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• If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Hope, Inspirational Sports

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• The older I get, the better I used to be.

  Lee Trevino

  Wine, Tennis, Getting Older

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• Nobody ever looked up and saw a good shot.

  Don Herold

  Saws, Shots

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• I've been writing a lot, I've a few projects I'm trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing... Apart from that, if I could get lower than a 10 handicap on my golf game, I'd be thrilled.

  Paul Michael Glaser

  Writing, Games, Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The main idea in golf as in life, I suppose is to learn to accept what cannot be altered and to keep on doing one's own reasoned and resolute best whether the prospect be bleak or rosy.

  Bobby Jones

  Ideas, Accepting, Bleak

  Bobby Jones (1960). “Golf is My Game”

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• I never pray on a golf course. Actually, the Lord answers my prayers everywhere except on the course.

  Billy Graham

  Prayer, Answers, Praying

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• The difference between golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.

  George Deukmejian

  Funny, Lying, Differences

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• Golf is the only game I know of that actually becomes harder the longer you play it.

  Bobby Jones

  Games, Play, Harder

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• We learn so many things from golf: how to suffer, for instance.

  Bruce Lansky

  Suffering, Instance

  Bruce Lansky (2011). “Golf, It's Just a Game: The Best Quotes & Cartoons About Golf”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

  B. C. Forbes

  Life, Hazards, Would Be

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• My golf game's gone off so much that when I went fishing a couple of weeks ago my first cast missed the lake.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Couple, Fishing, Games

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• I'd give up golf if I didn't have so many sweaters.

  Bob Hope

  Giving Up, Sweaters, Ifs

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• You can't call it a sport. You don't run, jump, you don't shoot, you don't pass. All you have to do is buy some clothes that don't match.

  Steve Sax

  Sports, Running, Clothes

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• The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win.

  Phil Mickelson

  Sports, Winning, Player

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