Golf Quotes - Page 38

• I think people like players they can relate to. It seems as if people think they know me. I just think I'm an ordinary Joe who plays golf very, very well.

  Fred Couples

  Player, Thinking, People

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• I will say I love competing, and I was in a great era of playing with young Phil Mickelson and older Greg Norman and Nick Price. I don't know if YA Title could throw the ball these days, but you can play golf for a long, long time.

  Fred Couples

  Play, Long, Titles

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• My goal has always been to play golf, and play it well. In the end, that's what I am, a golfer. If my back lets me, I'm going to play my favorite places. If I hurt myself, that'll probably be it for a while.

  Fred Couples

  Hurt, Play, Goal

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• Really in all my years on Tour, in the U.S. Open I probably played great golf in two of them, out of maybe 20, so it's a lot of work.

  Fred Couples

  Years, Two, Great Golf

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• I bought my first electric car in 1970. Its top speed was 15 mph and it had just a 15 mile range - it was essentially a golf cart with a windshield wiper and a horn.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Mph, Car, Firsts

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

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• Few learn golf in a lifetime.

  Grantland Rice

  Lifetime

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• Golf is played with the arms.

  Sam Snead

  Sports, Arms

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• How can you get tired of playing golf?

  Ray Floyd

  Tired, Playing Golf

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• Golf is a game, and games are meant to be enjoyed.

  Ray Floyd

  Games, Enjoyed, Meant To Be

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• As a kid in Fayetteville, N.C., I played golf all day, every day, a lot of it by myself. I spent hundreds of hours around the greens at Cape Fear Valley, the course my dad owned, hitting every shot I could think of - the one-hop-and-release, the chip that lands dead, the explosion from a bad lie.

  Ray Floyd

  Dad, Lying, Kids

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• Golf is something I do selfishly for myself.

  Tiger Woods

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• I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf.

  Jack Lemmon

  Play, Tvs, Rehearsal

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

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• Golf is social. It brings a lot of people together.

  Mia Hamm

  People, Together, Social

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• I can't just wake up and watch TV and do nothing. I need a day off working out, seeing the wife, play a little golf, see my kids.

  Pete Sampras

  Kids, Play, Work Out

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

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• I've been into golf, trying to get into the gym to stay somewhat fit. I've got two boys now, they're active kids.

  Pete Sampras

  Kids, Boys, Two

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

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• I've spent more time playing golf than anything else the last 18 years. Just wanted to be an 80s-shooter. Got there, too.

  Jack Nicholson

  Years, Lasts, Shooter

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• Why go to a church to worship God? A church is man made. God never said, "And let there be aluminum siding." Climbing a tree to talk to God sounds like a better idea since only God can make a tree. And if that tree's on a golf course, all the better.

  Tim Allen

  Funny, God, Humorous

  Tim Allen (1996). “I'm Not Really Here”, Hyperion

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• Golf's really fun in Japan because of the women caddies. ... I saw one guy start out playing alone with his caddie. By the 9th hole they were engaged and when they finished on 18 they had a foursome.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, Japan

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• The Japanese eat, sleep, and breathe golf; the only thing they don't do is actually play it, because to get on a course, you have to make a reservation roughly 137 years in advance, which means that by the time you actually get to the first tee you are deceased. Of course, in golf this is not really a handicap.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Mean

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.144, Ballantine Books

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• The game of golf doesn't come rushing back to you. Last week I made a couple of fundamental mistakes that I probably wouldn't have made in the heat of the battle back when I was in my heyday, and those things have got to come back.

  Greg Norman

  Couple, Mistake, Rushing

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

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• When I'm not working, I like to play golf.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Play

  "Samuel L Jackson: 'Now we got the movie stuff out of the way, let's talk about something serious'" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2008.

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• I know the joy of skating on a clear cold day. I know the joy of getting off a perfect drive in golf. I know the delight of a fine meal after a long walk. These are real and wholesome, but all of them put together can not approach the thrill of ridding yourself of fear!

  Vash Young

  Real, Long Walks, Perfect

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• Obviously it's my second senior event, and I'm tired obviously coming back from the British Open, from surgery, which was priority No. 1, did that successfully, and each week since the British Open I've felt in pretty good control of my golf game.

  Greg Norman

  Senior, Tired, Games

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• So my game is solid. So that obviously makes me feel confident, that like anybody else in this field, you name them, I feel like I've got the ability to win the golf tournament just as much as they have, and that's the way I'm going to take it.

  Greg Norman

  Winning, Games, Names

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

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• For me, 'choking' is just another term in golf.

  Johnny Miller

  Choke, Term

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