Golf Quotes - Page 8

• A good player who is a great putter is a match for any golfer. A great hitter who cannot putt is a match for no one.

  Ben Sayers

  Player, Great Golf, Golfers

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• Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt.

  Fletcher Knebel

  Men, Feet, Found

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• The only thing you should force in a golf swing is the club back in the bag.

  Byron Nelson

  Swings, Bags, Clubs

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• You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life.

  Grantland Rice

  Lying, Objectivity, Play

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• A golf ball is like a clock. Always hit it at 6 o'clock and make it go toward 12 o'clock. But make sure you're in the same time zone.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Time Zones, Balls, Clock

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• Golf is the only sport that a professional can enjoy playing with his friends.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Sports, Corny, Enjoy

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• Golf is like solitaire. When you cheat, you cheat only yourself.

  Tony Lema

  Cheat

  Anthony David Lema, Tony Lema (1966). “Champagne Golf”

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• In golf, you keep your head down and follow through. In the vice presidency, you keep your head up and follow through. It's a big difference.

  Dan Quayle

  Differences, Vices, Politics

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• In golf, a player can step and mar the line of his adversary's putt. A player can also hit his adversary or his caddie intentionally with his ball and claim the hole - but it isn't usually done.

  Charles Brown MacDonald

  Player, Caddies, Balls

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• Don't be in such a hurry. That little white ball isn't going to run away from you.

  Patty Berg

  Running, White, Balls

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• If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably be a caddie today.

  George Archer

  Caddies, Today, Ifs

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• Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren't penalized for being on grass.

  Bob Hope

  Sports, Player, Thinking

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• Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

  Sam Snead

  Success, Sports, Winning

  Sam Snead (1989). “The Lessons I've Learned: Better Golf the Sam Snead Way”, Macmillan Publishing Company

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• That putt had more breaks than a government job.

  Brian Weiss

  Jobs, Government, Break

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• Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.

  Marc Anthony

  Attention, Fame

  "Presidential Campaigns Crank Up Competition for Rural Vote; Interview With Senator Elizabeth Dole". “American Morning” with Heidi Collins, www.cnn.com. July 14, 2004.

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• They throw their clubs backwards, and that's wrong. You should always throw a club ahead of you so that you don't have to walk any extra distance to get it.

  Tommy Bolt

  Distance, Clubs, Should

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• I just hope I don't have to explain all the times I've used His name in vain when I get up there.

  Bob Hope

  Names, Get Up, Vain

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• Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.

  B. C. Forbes

  Disease, Diversion, Ideals

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• I'd play every day if I could. It's cheaper than a shrink and there are no telephones on my golf cart.

  Brent Musburger

  Play, Telephones, Carts

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• Any game where a man 60 can beat a man 30 ain't no game.

  Burt Shotton

  Men, Games, Beats

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• If I can hit a curveball, why can't I hit a ball that is standing still on a course?

  Larry Nelson

  Balls, Standing Still, Stills

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• What's nice about our tour is you can't remember your bad shots.

  Bob Bruce

  Nice, Remember, Shots

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• If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and the families of the breed would be shipped off to the white slave corrals of Argentina.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, White, Office

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• The fundamental problem with golf is that every so often, no matter how lacking you may be in the essential virtues required of a steady player, the odds are that one day you will hit the ball straight, hard, and out of sight. This is the essential frustration of this excruciating sport. For when you've done it once, you make the fundamental error of asking yourself why you can't do this all the time. The answer to this question is simple: the first time was a fluke.

  Colin Falconer

  Sports, Frustration, Simple

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• A tap-in is a putt that is short enough to be missed one-handed.

  Henry Beard

  Enough, Missed Ones, Golf Putting

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