Golf Quotes
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I've studied golf for almost 50 years now and know a hell of a lot about nothing.
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I try to walk when I'm playing golf so I get some exercise in.
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There is nothing in this game of golf that can't be improved upon if you practice.
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Today, at 35, I can throw a small football close to 80 yards - and straighter than I can hit a golf ball.
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Confidence is king in golf.
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As your golf improves, your concentration will improve with it.
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No game designed to be played with the aid of personal servants by right-handed men who can't even bring along their dogs can be entirely good for the soul.
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I only started concentrating on football as a career when I left school at 18. I played golf for the Scottish and British boys' teams.
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Not one person from the music world has ever come with - as if I could get a rock'n'roller up at four in the morning to play golf - but that's fine. I have way too much going on to sit around waiting for tee time at two in the afternoon.
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I still enjoy what I'm doing, which is building businesses. I don't play golf. I don't have any particular passion apart from my business and my family, and that gives me all the pleasure that I want.
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I wrote to Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I said: "Here is the sentence once written by the immortal Bobby Jones. I thought you might like to have it done in needlepoint and mounted in a suitable frame to hang over Little John's bed. It says, The rewards of golf - and of life, too, I expect - are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules." I never heard from Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I can only conclude that the letter went astray.
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...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 five.
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I really enjoy what little time I have at home. The golf course and practice facilities are perfect and so close to home!
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I win at golf. I'm a club champion many times at different clubs. I win at golf. I can sink the three-footer on the 18th hole when others can't.
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I am decidedly unfriendly during a golf game, from the first hole to the last.
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You worked your paper route, mowed the lawn, then played golf all day.
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Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different.
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I used to play golf. I wanted to be a better player, but after a while, I realized I'd always stink. And that's when I really started to enjoy the game.
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I have come to understand and appreciate writers much more recently since I started working on a book last fall. Before that, I thought golf writers got up every morning, played a round of golf, had lunch, showed up for our last three holes and then went to dinner.
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I like boring golf. That's kind of what butters my bread.
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Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.
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I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.
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If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
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The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible.
