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06-24-2005 04:23 PM #1
Famous (and not so famous) Quotes
Famous (and not so famous) Quotes
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What others may find in poetry or an art museum, I find in the flight of a good drive - Arnold Palmer
Undulation is the soul of golf - H. N. Wethered
The spirit of golf is to dare a hazard, and in negotiating it, reap a reward. - George C Tomas
Like pool, golf is primarily a game of position. - Robert Trent Jones Jr.
The real trick of golf course architecture is to lure the golfer into a false sense of security. - Pete Dye
Golf architects can't play golf themselves and make damn sure no one else can. - unknown
The reason the pro tells you to keep you read down is so you can't see him laughing - Phyllis Diller
Never bet against anyone you meet on the first tee who has a deep suntan, a one iron in his bag, and squinty eyes. - Dave Marr
Victory is everything. You can spend the money, but you can never spend the memories. - Ken Venturi
Until you play it St Andrews it looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away. - Sam Snead
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. - Ben Hogan
First you teach a golfer to hook the ball by using his hands and arms properly. Then you teach him how to take the hook away by using his body and legs properly. - Harvey Penick
The addiction of 50% of all golfers. Slice: The weakness of the other half. - Jim Bishop
The practice tee; a place for golfers to go to convert a nasty hook into a wicked slice. - Henry Beard
Playing golf is a bit like carving a turkey... you need to have your slice under control. - Harry Toscanno
It takes so long to realize that you can't always replicate your swing. The only thing you can control is your attitude towards your next shot. - Mark McCumber.
It does not matter if you look like a beast before or after the hit, as long as you look like a beauty at the moment of impact. - Seve Ballesteros
Golf is an exasperating struggle, a succession of failures interrupted by periodic moments of bliss. - Columnist Jerry Sullivan
A hit must be perfectly timed, but a swing will time itself. - Grantland Rice
The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack too many items. - John Updike
Remember that it is possible to over-golf yourself. Two rounds a day is enough for any man with a week or more of solid golf in front of him. - Horace G. Hutchinson, 1896
It is statute and ordained that in na place of the Realme there be used Flute-ball, golfe or uther sik unproffitable sportes. James IV of Scotland, 1491 (sic)
95% of this game mental. If a guy plays lousy golf, he does not need a pro, he needs a shrink. - Tom Murphy
Golf is a game of explicatives not deleted. - Dr Irving A Gladstone.
Hundreds of years of experience has demonstrated that the game is temporary insanity, practiced in a cow pasture. - Dave Kindred.
When you fall in love with golf, it is never easy; it is obsession at first sight. - Thomas Boswell
The game of golf is 90% mental, the other 10% is mental. - Mulligan's laws
After you get the basics down, it's all mental. - Ken Venturi
I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father. - Greg Norman
Golf is a way of testing ourselves while enjoying ourselves. - Arnold Palmer
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. - Bob Hope
Golf is like a grindstone - whether it grinds you down or polishes you up, depends on what you are made of. - English Saying
Golf puts a man's character to the anvil and his richest qualities patience - poise, and restraint, to the flame. - Billy Casper
Golf is the favorite game of Scotland. It is played everywhere. It is too slow a game, however, for Canada. We would go to sleep over it. - John B. MacLean, 1891
Golf is like a love affair: If you don’t take it seriously, it’s not any fun. If you take it seriously, it will break your heart. - Arthur Daly
Golf is the hardest sport... One day you are on cloud nine, and the next you couldn't scratch a whale's belly. - Sam Sneed
Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort. - Stephem Leacock
Golf is game where guts, stick-to-itiveness and blind devotion will always net you absolutely nothing but an ulcer. - Tommy Bolt
Professional golfers are gypsies in polyester sportswear: conservative family men leading a radical lifestyle, they are independent businessmen whose offices are the fairways and greens of the world’s top courses. - Paul McLaughlin
It’s one of those unintended consequences of the game. You go out to make pars, and you make friends. - Lorne Rubenstein
Golf encourages a dream state. It allows our minds and imagination to roam. Golf encourages reverie. To be part of golf is to come upon stories, to become a story, to tell stories. - Lorne Rubenstein
Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result. - Tommy Armour
Golf is a non-violent game played violently from within. - Bob Toski
I'm in the woods so much I can tell you which plants are edible. - Lee Trevino
Golf is a game who's aim it is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose. - Winston Churchill
You don't know what pressure is until you've played for five dollars with only two in your pocket. - Lee Trevino
I'm hitting the woods just great, but I'm having a terrible time getting out of them. - Harry Tofcano
Golf is a good walk spoiled. - Mark Twain
Golf is a game in which you yell 'fore', shoot six and write down five. - Paul Harvey
Golf is a game where guts and blind devotion will always net you absolutely nothing but an ulcer. -Tommy Bolt
Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course, the space between your ears. - Bobby Jones
I play with friends, but we don't play friendly games. - Ben Hogan
The golf swing is like sex. You can't be thinking about the mechanics of the act while you are performing. - Dave Hill
If there is any larceny in man, golf will bring it out. - Unknown
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club don't you? - Ben Hogan
The harder you work, the luckier you get. - Gary Player
The only shots you can be dead sure of are those you've had already. - Byron Nelson
The fun you get from golf is in direct ratio to the effort you don't put into it. - Bob Allen
The greatest liar in the world is the golfer who claims he plays the game for merely exercise. - Tommy Bolt
Most golfers prepare for disaster. A good golfer prepares for success. - Bob Toski
A lot of guys who have never choked, have never been in the position to do so. -Tom Watson
Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at. - Jimmy Demaret
I'm going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money-winners list. - Unknown
If you want to beat someone out on the golf course, just get him mad. - Dave Willaims
If you try to fight the course, it will beat you. - Lou Graham
Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money. - Lee Trevino
It's nice to have the opportunity to play for so much money, but it's nicer to win it. - Patty Sheenan
If you travel first class, you think first class and you are more likely to play first class. - Ray Floyd
It's the most fun I've ever had with my clothes on. - Lee Trevino
The players themselves can be classified into two groups- the attractions and the entry fees. - Jimmy Demaret
Let's see, I think I right now I'm third in the money-winning and first in money-spending. -Tony Lema
There are no points for style when it comes to putting. It's getting the ball in the cup that counts. - Brian Swarbrick
You've just got one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you've hit it. - Sam Snead
Golf is based on honesty, where else would you admit to a seven on a par three? - Jimmy Demaret
The number one thing about trouble is... don't get into more. - Dave Stockton
Mulligan: invented by a Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder. - Jim Bishop
No one who ever had lessons would have a swing like mine. - Lee Trevino
Golf is 90 percent inspiration and 10 percent perspiration. - Johnny Miller
Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease. - Bertie Charles Forbes
Lay off for three weeks, and then quit for good." Sam Snead
Golf is the hardest game in the world to play, and the easiest to cheat at. - Dave Hill
I've made a million, but I don't have a million. - Walt Zambriski
In golf as in life, it's the follow through that makes the difference. - Unknown
Golf is a fine relief from the tensions of office, but we are a little tired of holding the bag. - Adlai Stevenson
If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. - Jack Lemmon
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. - Bob Hope
If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States. - H.L. Mencken
Golf is twenty percent mechanics and technique. The other eighty percent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness, and conversation. - Grantland Rice
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