GOLF QUOTES II

quotations about golf

Golf asks something of a man. It makes one loathe mediocrity. It seems to say, “If you are going to keep company with me, don’t embarrass me.”

GARY PLAYER

Christian Science Monitor, Jun. 24, 1965

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I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

G. K. CHESTERTON

attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes


Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins.

JAMES BARRETT RESTON

Uncle Anthony's Unabridged Analogies


I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.

GERALD FORD

attributed, The Bathroom Golf Book

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The true test is against "Old Man Par" and the golf course itself.

JACQUI NICOLETTI MCSORLEY & JOHNNY GONZALES

Golf Guide for Parents and Players


Golf balls are attracted to water as unerringly as the eye of a middle-aged man to a female bosom.

MICHAEL GREEN

The Art of Coarse Golf

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A guy in Pennsylvania was arrested because he was drunk in his golf cart going from bar to bar. So they arrested him. I said: Wait a minute. Isn't that golf?

DAVID LETTERMAN

Late Show with David Letterman, December 12, 2014

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Golf is not a game of great shots. It’s a game of the most misses. The people who win make the smallest mistakes.

GENE LITTLER

interview, Mar. 22, 1969

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It always helps to have a technique. In golf, it's all about visualizing. You have to practice; being in the situation is the only thing that helps. You have to make all the mistakes and you have to learn from them. The more you do it, the more comfortable you feel and then you learn.

LORENA OCHOA

Newsweek, Oct. 15, 2007

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It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place this world is when one is playing golf.

ROBERT LYND

attributed, Al Capone Was a Golfer


It's a game of constant adjustment and the guy that adjusts the best is the best player.

GENE LITTLER

attributed, The Gigantic Book of Golf Quotations

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Golf is not just exercise; it is an adventure, a romance…. a Shakespeare play in which disaster and comedy are intertwined ... you have to live with the consequences of each action.

HAROLD SEGALL

New York Times, Jun. 15, 1986

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Golf is the Great Mystery.

P.G. WODEHOUSE

The Heart of Gold

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If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.

PAUL GALLICO

New York Times, Mar. 6, 1977

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One good thing about golf -- a man doesn't get into any holes he can't get out of.

E. C. MCKENZIE

14,000 Quips and Quotes


Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

TIGER WOODS

attributed, The Ultimate Book of Quotations

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Golf is what letter-carrying, ditch-digging, and carpet- beating would be if those three tasks had to be performed on the same hot afternoon in plaid slacks and bright shirts by gentlemen who require a different implement for every mood.

ANONYMOUS

Golf Digest, 1972


There is no shape nor size of body, no awkwardness nor ungainliness, which puts good golf beyond one's reach. There are good golfers with spectacles, with one eye, with one leg, even with one arm. None but the absolute blind need despair.

W. G. SIMPSON

"The Praise and Origin of Golf", Classic Golf Stories


The uglier a man's legs are the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.

H.G. WELLS

Bealby

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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.

JACK NICKLAUS

on winning his 70th PGA tournament, WINS Radio, May 28, 1984