Golfers Quotes - Page 11

• I'm going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money-winners list.

  Lee Trevino

  Golf, Winning, Years

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• No one who ever had lessons would have a swing like mine.

  Lee Trevino

  Golf, Swings, Lessons

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• One of the most fascinating things about golf is how it reflects the cycle of life. No matter what you shoot - the next day you have to go back to the first tee and begin all over again and make yourself into something.

  Peter Jacobsen

  Golf, Cycle Of Life, Next Day

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• I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.

  Ben Hogan

  Home, Golf, Games

  Ben Hogan (1985). “Ben Hogan's Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• Everybody can see that my swing is homegrown. That means everybody has a chance to do it.

  Bubba Watson

  Mean, Golf, Swings

  "Masters champion Bubba Watson returns to action with 'Bubba golf'" by Lawrence Donegan, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2012.

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• Baffling late-life discovery: Golfers wear those awful clothes on purpose.

  Herb Caen

  Golf, Discovery, Clothes

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• Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's.

  Grantland Rice

  Golf, Giving, Opponents

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• The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Golf, Bags, Woods

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• The best architects feel it to be their duty to make the path to the hole as free as possible from annoying difficulties for the less skillful golfers, while at the same time presenting to the scratch players a route calling for the best shots at their command.

  Robert Hunter

  Golf, Player, Scratches

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• A hole in one is amazing when you think of the different universes this white mass of molecules has to pass through on its way to the hole.

  Mac O'Grady

  Golf, Thinking, Different Universes

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• Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists.

  Heywood Hale Broun

  Golf, Games, Attention

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• One thing about golf is you don't know why you play bad and why you play good.

  George Archer

  Golf, Play, Funny Golf

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• Golf isn't like other sports where you can take a player out if he's having a bad day. You have to play the whole game.

  Phil Blackmar

  Sports, Bad Day, Golf

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• I was asked by a golfer how to lower his scores. I replied start playing 9 holes instead of 18. I worked for me, it cut my scores in half.

  Brian Weiss

  Golf, Cutting, Half

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• The trouble that most of us find with the modern matched sets of clubs is that they don't really seem to know any more about the game than the old ones did.

  Robert Browning

  Golf, Games, Clubs

  Robert Browning (1985). “A History of Golf”

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• Golf camaraderie, like that of astronauts and Antarctic explorers, is based on a common experience of transcendence; fat or thin, scratch or duffer, we have been somerwhere together where non-golfers never go.

  John Updike

  Golf, Together, Scratches

  John Updike (2011). “Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf”, p.125, Random House

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• I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush has brought greater balm to the extremities of the senior golfer than the golfmobile, a word that will have to do for want of a better.

  Alistair Cooke

  Senior, Country, Golf

  Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.80, Arcade Publishing

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• [Golfers] are a special kind of moral realist who nips the normal romantic and idealistic yearnings in the bud by proving once or twice a week that life is unconquerable but endurable.

  Alistair Cooke

  Golf, Special, Bud

  "Golf: The Marvelous Mania".

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• I'm not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they'd come up sliced.

  Lee Trevino

  Dirty, Golf, Games

  Quoted in Scholastic Coach,'Coaches' Corner', Dec 1982.

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• The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.

  John Updike

  Golf, Swings, Trying

  John Updike (2009). “More Matter: Essays and Criticism”, p.124, Random House

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• When I putt, my emotions collide like tectonic plates. It's left my memory circuits full of scars that won't heal.

  Mac O'Grady

  Memories, Golf, Emotion

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• The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting, just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.

  Dan Jenkins

  Golf, Snow, Soul

  Dan Jenkins (2015). “DOGGED VICTIMS OF INEXORABLE FATE”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.

  Winston Churchill

  Golf, Pills, Cows

  Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

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• Golf seems to me an arduous way to go for a walk. I prefer to take the dogs out.

  Anne, Princess Royal

  Funny, Dog, 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

  Golf, Differences, Vices

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