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Golfing Quotes"No
golfer can ever become too good to practice." "Grip
it and rip it. It works for John Daly. It never worked for me.
All I did was wear out golf gloves." "That's
when you know you're weird." "If
I had cleared the trees and drove the green, it would've been
a great shot." "Practice
puts brains in your muscles." "Golf
without Jones would be like France without Paris -- leaderless,
lightless and lonely." "To
be truthful, I think golfers are overpaid. It's unreal, and I
have trouble dealing with the guilt sometime." "If
Horatio Alger Jr. were alive today, he would love to write the
tale of Jose Coceres, from Argentina rags to golf riches. The
38-year-old 140-pounder just won his second PGA Tour event, raising
his 2001 take to $1.49 mil. Not bad for a poor ragged kid who
learned to swing with a tree limb and subsequently helped raise
10 impoverished siblings." "Nobody
ever looked up and saw a good shot." "Golf
is no longer a game of hitting the ball, finding it, and hitting
it again. There is wind to be measured, whether that means tossing
blades of grass in the air or studying the gentle movement of
60-foot high branches. There are caddie conferences for even the
most routine shots. There are sports psychologists who tell players
not to hit until they're ready." "By
the time you get to your ball, if you don't know what to do with
it, try another sport." "Live.....Laugh.....GOLF!!!" "Golf
is very much like a love affair, if you don't take it seriously,
it's no fun, if you do, it breaks your heart. Don't break your
heart, but flirt with the possibility." "Golf
is a natural fit for us. It satisfies the spirit. You're out in
the grass and the trees. You're out there with nature. You're
not really competing with each other, you're competing against
the golf course. I think it fits well with Native American society.
Not all Native Americans get a chance to play, but I'm hoping
that will change." "We're
so far into the long-hitting, super-equipment future, they're
elongating even Augusta National, the Masters' home, an act of
madness Price bemoans at age 44. Just sprinkle in some hungry
fairway bunkers, he rightly contends. Don't make golf the equivalent
of tennis-with-serves-only, warns the three-major-winner. He opens
this PGA with 71, then bristles in his congenial way about Atlanta
Athletic Club's villainous 490-yard, par-4 No. 18." "The
university is about providing knowledge to anybody that requires
it, and we now live in a world where leisure time is a great deal
more important than it used to be....There would be a heck of
a lot of unemployed people if you took away the leisure industry." "Rhythm
is best expressed in any swing directed at a cigar stump or a
dandelion head." "Swinging
at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket:
if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes
everything." "The
number eighteen is symbolically meaningful because it is the numerical
equivalent of the Hebrew word chai, which means life." "I'm
working as hard as I can to get my life and my cash to run out
at the same time. If I can just die after lunch Tuesday, everything
would be perfect." "I play
in the low 80's. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play." "When
you don't play very often, you just don't know what is coming
next." "Just
have a Coke or something and watch the boys go past." Q:
"What abandoned course is that?" "I
miss. I miss. I miss. I make." "Papa,
trust your swing." "Golf
is a game to teach you about the messages from within, about the
subtle voices of the body-mind. And once you understand them you
can more clearly see your 'hamartia,' the ways in which your approach
to the game reflects your entire life. Nowhere does a man go so
naked." "Hit
'em hard. They'll land somewhere." "The trouble that
most of us find with the modern matched sets of clubs is that
they don't really seem to know any more about the game than the
old one's did!" "Swing hard in
case you hit it." “It
took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it
in one afternoon on the golf course.” "Have you ever
noticed what golf spells backwards?" "My favorite
shots are the practice swing and the conceded putt. The rest can
never be mastered." "It is nothing
new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time.
But it took me many years to realize it." "A rough should
have high grass. When you go bowling they don't give you anything
for landing in the gutter, do they?" "Where do I begin
to try to explain the joys of Machrihanish? It was remote and
undiscovered and that implies a great deal immediately...but what
else?...It was a course that brought out the best in my game,
a course sublime in its natural beauty, a course that moved Old
Tom Morris to say (according to Peter Kelly), 'The Almichty maun
hae had gowf in his e'e when he made the place.'" "When The Haig
died in 1969, Junior called me from Detroit to tell me there would
be no funeral. Instead, a bunch of his cronies were going to throw
a party at the Detroit Athletic Club. They thought The Haig would
prefer that. I didn't go. Like Hamlet, golf's sweet prince, I
thought, deserved a grander exit than that. He was splendid. They
should have carried him out on a shield." "Then I thought,
with the same clubhead speed, the ball’s going to go at least
six times as far. There’s absolutely no drag, so if you do
happen to spin it, it won’t slice or hook 'cause there’s
no atmosphere to make it turn." "Got more dirt
than ball. Here we go again."
"I
am the toughest golfer mentally." "Golf
is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in
front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around." "When
it's breezy, hit it easy." "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." "—not
even Barbra Streisand celebrates herself as tirelessly as golf celebrates
itself..." "I
look into their eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish
them luck, but I am thinking, 'I am going to bury you.'" "I'm
disappointed, but I'm not going to run around like Dennis Rodman
and head-butt somebody." "I
screwed up. It's all on me. I know that. But losing this Masters
is not the end of the world. I let this one get away, but I still
have a pretty good life. I'll wake up tomorrow, still breathing,
I hope. All these hiccups I have, they must be for a reason. All
this is just a test. I just don't know what the test is yet." "When
someone has a bad day like that on the golf course, you say, Greg,
you look good, you look fantastic. I like your shoes, I like your
pants, I like your...well, the hat's okay. I mean, you need to keep
it light. Instead they say, Greg, what's next? Suicide? Alcoholism?
Drugs?" "You
create your own luck by the way you play. There is no such luck
as bad luck. Fate has nothing to do with success or failure, because
that is a negative philosophy that indicts one's confidence, and
I'll have no part of it." "I
don't know if I'll ever do it again or not, but frankly I don't
really care." "He can
take his game to Europe, Africa, Asia or wherever he wants and the
world will follow." "He
doesn't have a wife, he doesn't even have a girlfriend, so the only
people he has to call on is me." "Greed
wounds more wallets than all the dice tables and horse tracks in
America." "I've
always tried to play golf with a golf club. I have a hard time driving
with my rifle. I mean, 18 is really narrow ... I have no problem
with the course, except for the tee shot on 18.'' "The hole
from hell is back ... If you don't drive a golf ball at least 268
yards, you will need the U.S. Navy on your left and the French Foreign
Legion on the right." "The
worst advice in golf is, 'Keep your head down.'" "Don't
let the bad shots get to you. Don't let yourself become angry. The
true scramblers are thick-skinned. And they always beat the whiners." "You're looking up. That's your problem.'' Graffiti on the underside of the roof of cart 47 at Sea Scape Golf Course, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. "Hitting
a tree in west Texas is stranger than getting a hole in one." "When
I play my best golf, I feel as if I'm in a fog, standing back watching
the earth in orbit with a golf club in my hands." "These
greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit
it with the shadow." "Here
Eddie, hold the flag while I putt out." "Never
break your putter and your driver in the same round or you're dead." "Is
my friend in the bunker or is the bastard on the green?" "Let's
get after it." "Through
years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance
than dirt." "A
hole in one is amazing when you think of the different universes
this white mass of molecules has to pass through on its way to the
hole." Tom Weiskopf's
conversation with a couple of unimpressed Scots at the back of number
8 at Carnoustie after he hit a hole in one the week before the 1975
British Open. "The
swing is never learned. It's remembered." "Don't
be in such a hurry. That little white ball isn't going to run away
from you." "To
help your concentration, don't take too much time." "There's
an old saying,'It's a poor craftsman who
blames his tools.' It's usually the player who misses those three-footers,
not the putter." "Indecision
builds nervous tension and undermines any remaining confidence." "Hit
it hard. It will land somewhere." "No
matter what happens - never give up a hole....In tossing in your
cards after a bad beginning you also undermine your whole game,
because to quit between tee and green is more habit-forming than
drinking a highball before breakfast." "A
hungry dog hunts best." "You
can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen." |
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Date and time page last updated: 06/29/2005 10:01 AM