Golfers Quotes
166 Golfers quotes by 112 unique authors
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Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.
— Johnny Miller
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According to the Captain of The Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, striking your opponent or caddie at St Andrews, Hoylake or Westward Ho! meant that…
— Herbert Wind
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The life of a professional golfer is precarious at best. Win, and they carry you to the clubhouse on their shoulders. Lose, and you pay…
— Gene Sarazen
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In a generation or two, or maybe sooner, young golfers of true sporting instinct will wonder why all this handling of the ball is necessary.…
— Robert Harris
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[Golfers] are a special kind of moral relist who nips the normal romantic and idealstic yearnings in the bud by proving once or twice a…
— Alistair Cooke
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I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush has brought greater…
— Alistair Cooke
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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…
— John Updike
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A golfer needs a loving wife to whom he can describe the day's play through the long evening.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Jimmy Stewart could have been a good golfer, but he speaks so slowly that by the time he yells 'Fore!' the guy he's hit is…
— Bob Hope
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He [the golfer] must have the courage to keep trying in the face of ill luck or disappointment, and timidity to appreciate and appraise the…
— Bobby Jones
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I was asked by a golfer how to lower his scores. I replied start playing 9 holes instead of 18. I worked for me, it…
— Brian Weiss
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You learn to accept defeat graciously in golf. Unlike other sports, the game itself is a constant opponent. It never stops. A golfer is fortunate…
— Ben Crenshaw
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The fact is all golfers are equipment junkies and professional golfers are the worst of the lot. They'll do anything to find the perfect putter…
— Dave Marr
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The world's No. 1 tennis player spends 90 percent of his time winning, while the world's No. 1 golfer spends 90 percent of his time…
— David Feherty
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Retire to what? I'm a golfer and a fisherman. I've got no place to retire to.
— Julius Boros
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The best architects feel it to be their duty to make the path to the hole as free as possible from annoying difficulties for the…
— Robert Hunter
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To be truthful, I think golfers are overpaid. It's unreal, and I have trouble dealing with the guilt sometimes.
— Colin Montgomerie
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Baffling late-life discovery: Golfers wear those awful clothes on purpose.
— Herb Caen
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There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park-like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand.
— Charles Rosin
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This golfer has a wicked slice. And quite a follow-through. That's why his partner, who stood too close, Is on the green in two.
— Richard Armour
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Some golfers blast their ball from traps, With one adroit explosion, But others, out in ten perhaps, Depend upon erosion.
— Richard Armour
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The life of the golfer is not all gloom; There's always the lies in the locker room.
— Sammy Cahn
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The average golfer's problem is not so much the lack of ability as it is lack of knowledge about what he should be doing
— Ben Hogan
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O. J. Simpson has already received the ultimate punishment: For the rest of his life he has to associate with golfers.
— George Carlin
Who Wrote These Golfers Quotes
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