Swing Quotes
557 Swing quotes by 423 unique authors
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Is there such a thing as a technically perfect swing? If there is, I have yet to see it.
— David Leadbetter
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Rhythm is best expressed in any swing directed at a cigar stump or a dandelion head.
— Grantland Rice
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The golf swing is among the most stressful and unnatural acts in sports, short of cheering for the Yankees.
— Brad Faxon
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To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and subtle series of highly unnatural…
— Alistair Cooke
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We were always taught to swing slow with good tempo. But you have to have some acceleration throughout the swing. I think that's where a…
— Helen Alfredsson
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A golf swing is a collection of corrected mistakes.
— Carol Mann
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There is no movement in the golf swing so difficult that it cannot be made even more difficult by careful study and diligent practice.
— Tom Mulligan
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If we had to play Augusta National in one hour, the best athlete would win the Masters. But as it is, they give us time…
— Unknown Author
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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…
— John Updike
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I still swing the way I used to, but when I look up the ball is going in a different direction.
— Lee Trevino
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I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. It's like a color…
— Jack Nicklaus
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In playing ball, and in life, a person occasionally gets the opportunity to do something great. When that time comes, only two things matter: being…
— Hank Aaron
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I never had any thought the whole week. I figured my caddie [Jerry Beard] knew the course a lot better than me, so I put…
— Fuzzy Zoeller
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For many years I had an impression of my golf swing, which was that I vividly resembled Tom Weiskopf in the takeaway and Dave Marr…
— Alistair Cooke
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"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…
— John Updike
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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…
— John Updike
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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…
— John Updike
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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…
— John Updike
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Everybody has two swings-a beautiful practice swing and the choked-up one with with which they hit the ball. So it wouldn't do either of us…
— Ed Furgol
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Swing hard in case you hit it.
— Dan Marino
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When I'm in a zone, I don't think about the shot or the wind or the distance or the gallery or anything; I just pull…
— Mark Calcavecchia
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A bad attitude is worse than a bad swing.
— Payne Stewart
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Your final goal is to convert your athletic swing to pure instinct rather than conscious thought.
— David Leadbetter
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No one who ever had lessons would have a swing like mine.
— Lee Trevino
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When I have a match to play, I begin to relax as soon as I wake up. Everything I do, I do slow and easy.…
— Walter Hagen
Who Wrote These Swing Quotes
423 authors contributed a total of 557 Swing Quotes, led by these top contributors: