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Golf Quotes by John Updike
- The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.
- I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl like…
- Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.
- What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin to falter at around forty,…
- "Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not unlovingly put to me by…
- ...as all souls are equal before their Maker, a two inch putt counts the same as a 250 yard drive. There is a comedy in…
- There was clearly great charm and worth in a sport so quaintly perverse in its basic instructions. Hit down to make the ball rise. Swing…
- The difficulty is, all swing thoughts decay, like radium. What burnt up the course on Wednesday has turned to lead on Sunday. Yet it does…
- In no other sport must the spectator move.
- 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…
- Dream golf is simply golf played on another course. We chip from glass tables onto moving stairways; we swing in a straightjacket, through masses of…
- The other sad truth about golf spectatorship is that for today's pros it all comes down to the putting, and that the difference between a…
- Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past…
- Somehow, it is hard to dislike a man once you have played a round of golf with him.
- My golf is so delicate, so tenuously wired together with silent inward prayers, exhortations and unstable visualizations, that the sheer pressure of an additional pair…
- Imagine writing a poem with a sweating, worried-looking boy handing you a different pencil at the end of every word. My golf, you may say,…
- Golf at its measured pace permits an electric excess of mental activity.
More Golf Quotes
- I still don't get golf. — Lance Armstrong
- It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger. — Lance Armstrong
- Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net. — Franklin P. Adams
- Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. — Dave Barry
- For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball. — Dave Barry
- Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air. — Jack Benny
- I enjoy now doing what I do... playing golf, relaxing a little, enjoying life. — Yogi Berra
- I didn't know much about golf growing up. — Yogi Berra
- You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football… — Jello Biafra
- Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun. — Jim Bishop
- I think one reason people play golf is it allows them to obsess about something other than the daily crap. It takes… — Lewis Black
- If I get a week off, I'll go to a hotel that has a golf course. I like to come downstairs and… — Lewis Black