Golf Quotes - Page 3

• Sex and golf are the two things you can enjoy even if you're not good at them.

  Kevin Costner

  Funny, Sex, Humor

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• Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.

  Arnold Palmer

  Simple, Complicated, Intellect

  FaceBook post by Arnold Palmer from Oct 04, 2016

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• Golf is like love. One day you think you are too old and the next day you want to do it again.

  Roberto De Vicenzo

  Thinking, Like Love, Next Day

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• The most important shot in golf is the next one.

  Ben Hogan

  Important, The Next One, Shots

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• Golf is a hard game to figure. One day you will go out and slice it and shank it, hit into all the traps and miss every green. The next day you go out and, for no reason at all, you really stink.

  Bob Hope

  Hope, Games, Next Day

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• Talking to a golf ball won't do you any good, unless you do it while your opponent is teeing off.

  Bruce Lansky

  Talking, Balls, Opponents

  Bruce Lansky (2011). “Golf, It's Just a Game: The Best Quotes & Cartoons About Golf”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.

  Alistair Cooke

  Ambition, Skills, Stupidity

  Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.61, Arcade Publishing

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• Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt.

  Sam Snead

  Dimes, Whiskey, Nickels

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• The mind messes up more shots than the body.

  Tommy Bolt

  Mind, Body, Shots

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

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• I've heard people say putting is 50 percent technique and 50 percent mental. I really believe it is 50 percent technique and 90 percent positive thinking, see, but that adds up to 140 percent, which is why nobody is 100 percent sure how to putt.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Believe, Positive Thinking, People

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• Tennis is like a wonderful, longstanding relationship with a husband. Golf is a tempestuous, lousy lover; it's totally unpredicatable, a constant surprise.

  Dinah Shore

  Husband, Tennis, Lovers

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• That's the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on.

  Bernhard Langer

  Sports, Moving, Differences

  Interview with Julius Mason, www.rydercup.com. September 14, 2004.

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• Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one's hand.

  Bobby Jones

  Games, Hands, Clubs

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• You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.

  Lee Trevino

  Hook, Fades, Funny Golf

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• Nothing dissects a man in public quite like golf.

  Brent Musburger

  Men

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• Regardless of what the tour pros think, golf is a rich and varied game, and what all of us awkward fools do on weekends is what golf is truly all about.

  Dan Jenkins

  Weekend, Thinking, Games

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• The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Sports, Games, Green

  Letter on May 15, 1925. "Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917 - 1961", book edited by Carlos Baker, 1981.

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• Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?

  Ben Hogan

  Funny, Sports, Athlete

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• It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.

  Bobby Jones

  Basketball, Sports, Years

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• It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Sports, World, Impossible

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• If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.

  Dean Martin

  Retirement, Drinking, Book

  "Famous drinkers" by Rob Parker, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2004.

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• I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Sports, Hate

  Quoted in Michael HobbsThe Golf Quotation Book (1992).

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• If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

  Sam Snead

  Sports, Knives, People

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• Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money.

  Lee Trevino

  Real, Hands, Difficult

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• There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

  Lee Trevino

  Sports, Perseverance, Persistence

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