Gary Player Quotes

31 quotes in 335 categories

• If you think your hands are more important in your golf swing than your legs, try walking a hole on your hands.
• Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.
• It's a marriage. If I had to choose between my wife and my putter, well, I'd miss her.
• Everyone wants to be known as a great striker of the ball for some reason. Nobody wants to be called a lucky, one-putting s.o.b.
• When you play the game for fun, it's fun. When you play it for a living, it's a game of sorrows.
• A strong mind is one of the key components that separates the great from the good.
• Golf is a puzzle without an answer.
• To succeed in life one must have determination and must be prepared to suffer during the process. If one isn't prepared to suffer during adversities,…
• There is absolutely nothing humorous at the Masters. Here, small dogs do not bark and babies do not cry.
• I try to work with God as a partner.
• I am tired of all these golfers who are happy with second place. The only one who will like you if you come in second…
• The closer you can live to being a vegetarian the better.
• Simply by making the effort to start something, you will be miles ahead of almost everyone else.
• When a rules man gives you a ruling, that’s it. Amen.
• If you are going to keep company with me, don't embarrass me.
• I've traveled more than any human being who's ever lived.
• I've studied golf for almost 50 years now and know a hell of a lot about nothing.
• The more I work and practice, the luckier I seem to get.
• Enjoy the game. Happy golf is good golf.
• The pressure gets worse the older you get. The hole starts to look the size of a Bayer aspirin.

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