Greatest Golf Quotes - Page 4

• If you really want to get better at golf, go back and take it up at a much earlier age.

  Tom Mulligan

  Golf, Get Better, Age

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• It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Gains, Shots

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• Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Golf, Long Walks, Two

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.265, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Golf's three ugliest words: still your shot.

  Dave Marr

  Golf, Three, Shots

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• Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Management, Talent

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• The more you play it the less you know about it.

  Patty Berg

  Golf, Play, Knows

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• A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Player, Thinking

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• A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Skills, Two

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

  Lee Trevino

  Wine, Golf, Tennis

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• Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Shots, Funny Golf

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• They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. It's more complicated than that.

  Gardner Dickinson

  Believe, Golf, Complicated

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• Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic.

  Earl Wilson

  Disappointment, Golf, Broken

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