Golf Quotes
1965 quotes by 664 authors
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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
— Bobby Jones
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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
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The best advice I can give for playing a ball out of water is - don't.
— Tony Lema
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I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
— Joe E. Lewis
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Golf's three ugliest words: still your shot.
— Dave Marr
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It's so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying "Shhh" and not moving a muscle. Then we allow…
— Al McGuire
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Concentrate on hitting the green. The cup will come to you.
— Cary Middlecoff
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If you really want to get better at golf, go back and take it up at a much earlier age.
— Tom Mulligan
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The only thing you should force in a golf swing is the club back in the bag.
— Byron Nelson
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Nothing goes down slower than a golf handicap.
— Bobby Nichols
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Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
— Jack Nicklaus
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Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.
— Jack Nicklaus
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It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it.
— Jack Nicklaus
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One minute you're bleeding. The next minute you're hemorrhaging. The next minute you're painting the Mona Lisa.
— Mac O'Grady
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Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.
— Westbrook Pegler
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The woods are full of long drivers.
— Harvey Penick
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Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you…
— Rick Reilly
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Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.
— Grantland Rice
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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
Who Wrote These Golf Quotes
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