Best Caddies Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When I push, the top part of the leg goes ahead of the bottom part, and you can hear a big plonk when it comes back. My caddie said 'What the hell was that?!”

Said Bigs Hell Bottom Legs Caddies

Author:Jean van de Velde

“"The caddie will only drink the more if overpaid," you say. Indeed! and to what good purpose do you apply the money you grudge to the poor? Is there something nobler in your gout and dyspepsia than in my caddie's red nose?”

Ifs Purpose Poor Drink Red Golf Noses Grudge Caddies Gout

Author:Charles Walter Simpson

“The player may experiment about with his swing, his grip, his stance. It is only when he begins asking his caddie's advice that he is getting on dangerous ground.”

May Player Advice Dangerous Asking Golf Experiments Swings Stance Caddies

Author:Charles Walter Simpson

“The truth is, the first golf club I owned was an old left-handed, wooden-shafted, rib-faced mashie that a fellow gave me, and that's the club I was weaned on. During the mornings we caddies would bang the ball up and down the practice field until the members arrived and it was time to go to work. So I did all that formative practice left-handed. But I'm a natural right-hander.”

Firsts Left Natural Practice Morning Fields Truth Is Members Balls Fellows Golf Clubs Bangs Up And Down Ribs Golf Clubs Left Handed Caddies

Author:Ben Hogan

“I think it's always when you go to caddie for another player, it's no different to when you start with a new player. The very most important thing is when you get the first opportunity to have a win is to try and show them that you know what you're doing. It's easier said than done.”

Thinking Knows Trying Firsts Said Important Different Done Shows Opportunity Winning Player Easier Important Things Caddies Easier Said Than Done

Author:Steve Williams

“Every single guy that I've caddied, even guys that I've caddied for just here and there over the years has won tournaments. There's no one I've caddied for that hasn't won tournaments. So I guess when I caddie for someone, it's kind of a reassurance thing that Steve knows what it takes to get it done.”

Knows Years Kind Done Guy Here And There Tournaments Get It Done Reassurance Caddies Single Guy

Author:Steve Williams

“If you want me to come and caddie for you full time, you've got to sit down and do some hard work and do some hard yards because that's what I expect.”

Ifs Want Hard Hard Work Down And Want Me Yards You Want Me If You Want Me Caddies

Author:Steve Williams

“When you're told as a caddie we need to take a break, you're fired.”

Needs Break Caddies

Author:Steve Williams

“Just because you're a good caddie doesn't mean to say that you're the one that can put a player over the top. A good caddie doesn't necessarily help you've got to gel.”

Mean Helping Player Over The Top Caddies

Author:Steve Williams

“Nobody but you and your caddie care what you do out there, and if your caddie is betting against you, he doesn't care, either.”

Ifs Care Golf Betting Caddies He Doesn't Care

Author:Lee Trevino

“All my life I had a rapport with black caddies.”

Black Rapport Caddies

Author:Lee Trevino

“I never kick my ball in the rough or improve my lie in a sand trap. For that I have a caddie.”

Lying Balls Golf Kicks Sand Rough Traps Caddies

Author:Bob Hope

“After all these years, it's still embarrassing for me to play on the American golf tour. Like the time I asked my caddie for a sand wedge and he came back ten minutes later with a ham on rye.”

“The reason I don't play golf is because I was a caddie when I was 13. Women never gave up a golf ball that was lost somewhere in the trees and thicket and down through the poison ivy. It was during one of these searches that I vowed to the Lord above that if I ever earned enough money I would never set foot on a course again.”

Ifs Reason Enough Play Courses Lost Lord Tree Feet Balls Golf Poison Gave Up Ivy Golf Ball Caddies Thickets Poison Ivy

Author:Art Buchwald

“I was lying ten and had a thirty-five foot putt. I whispered over my shoulder: "How does this one break?" And my caddie said, "Who cares?"”

Doe Said Care Lying Break Five Feet Ten Golf Shoulders Thirty Who Cares Caddies

Author:Jack Lemmon

“In golf, a player can step and mar the line of his adversary's putt. A player can also hit his adversary or his caddie intentionally with his ball and claim the hole - but it isn't usually done.”

Done Lines Steps Player Balls Claims Golf Holes Mars Adversaries Caddies

Author:Charles Brown MacDonald

“If I needed advice from my caddie, he'd be hitting the shots and I'd be carrying the bag.”

Ifs Advice Needed Shots Golf Bags Hitting Caddies

Author:Bobby Jones

“Caddies are a breed of their own. If you shoot 66, they say, "Man, we shot 66!" But go out and shoot 77, and they say "Hell, he shot 77!"”

Ifs Men Hell Shots Golf Caddies

Author:Lee Trevino

“If a caddie can help you, you don't know how to play golf.”

Ifs Knows Play Helping Know How Golf Caddies

Book:Dead Solid Perfect

Source: Dead Solid Perfect

“There are three things in the world that he held in the smallest esteem - slugs, poets and caddies with hiccups.”

World Three Poet Golf Esteem Smallest Three Things Slugs Caddies Hiccups

Book:Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf

Source: Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf

“Don't worry about your caddie. He may be an irritating little wretch, but for eighteen holes he is your caddie.”

May Littles Worry Golf Holes Eighteen Irritating Caddies

Book:The Mystery of Golf

Source: The Mystery of Golf

“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 you lost the hole, except on medal days when it counted as a rub of the green.”

Lost Company Green Golf Holes Opponents Captains Honorable Medal Golfers Andrew Edinburgh Caddies

Author:Herbert Wind

“I know you can be fined for throwing a club, but I want to know if you can get fined for throwing a caddie?”

Ifs Knows Want Golf Clubs Throwing Caddies

Author:Tommy Bolt

“If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably be a caddie today.”

Ifs Today Golf Caddies

Author:George Archer

“He [Bill Clinton] told me that he caddied in the same group with me in the Hot Springs Open. That's why I voted for him, becasue he was a caddie.”

Groups Spring Hot Bills Golf Clinton Caddies

Author:Tommy Bolt

“Then Lee Trevino and Jack Nicklaus come in. I'll caddie for Jack.”

Golf Caddies

Author:Chi Chi Rodriguez

“Much of the fire with him [Ben Hogan] was lit by Byron Nelson, who came from the same town - the same caddie yard - and achieved fame and fortune several years ahead of Ben and who, as a kid, had always been popular and better liked than Ben. No puzzle at all.”

Years Kids Fire Fame Towns Fortune Golf Yards Puzzles Lit Nelson Byron Caddies

Author:Dan Jenkins

“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 the caddies in the dark.”

Winning Loses Dark Pay Golf Shoulders Golfers Precarious Caddies

Book:Thirty Years of Championship Golf: The Life and Times of Gene Sarazen

Source: Thirty Years of Championship Golf: The Life and Times of Gene Sarazen

“Golf took young kids like Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan and myself out of the caddie ranks and gave us money and a little bit of fame and let us live in the tall cotton.”

Littles Kids Young Bits Fame Little Bit Golf Tall Cotton Nelson Byron Caddies

Author:Jimmy Demaret

“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 out my hand and played whatever club he put in it. I'd say, "How hard do I hit it?" He'd tell me and I'd swing. The guys who come down here once a year and try to get smart with Mr. Jones' course are the dumb ones.”

Trying Years Hard Whole Hands Guy Courses Week Smart Golf Clubs Dumb Swings Beard Jerry Caddies

Author:Fuzzy Zoeller

“I played a practice round with Hubert [Green] the other day, and when we got to the ninth green, I heard a fan say, "Why does Hubert have two caddies?"”

Doe Two Practice Heard Fans Green Golf Rounds Caddies

Author:Ken Green

“It was a great honour to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. I didn't know they had a caddie division.”

Knows Fame Golf Halls Division Honour Hall Of Fame Caddies

Author:Bob Hope

“I'm going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money-winners list.”

Years Winning Twenties Golf Lists Winner Selflessness Golfers Golfing Caddies

Author:Lee Trevino

“My caddie 'Stovepipe' tried to talk me into hitting a 3-wood. But I took out the turf rider (4-wood) instead. The moment I hit it, I felt something in my bones. Walter Hagen was playing with me and Bobby Jones was on the green. 21 people were behind the green. The sun was going down. I wasn't sure it had gone in the hole until I saw all 21 people jumping up and down.”

People Moments Felt Behinds Sun Gone Saws Green Golf Woods Bones Holes Hitting Jumping Up And Down Riders Turf Caddies

Author:Gene Sarazen

“I don't know why that putt hung on the edge. I'm a clean liver. It must be my caddie.”

Knows Clean Golf Edges Hung Liver Caddies

Author:JoAnne Carner

“Once when I'd been in a lot of bunkers, my caddie told me he was getting blisters from raking so much.”

Golf Bunkers Blisters Caddies

Author:JoAnne Carner

“Remember the basic rule. Make friends with your caddie and the game will make friends with you. How true this is. It is easy to arrange that your guest opponent shall be deceived in to undertipping his caddie at the end of the morning round, so that the news gets round among the club employees that your opponent is a no good, and the boys will gang up against him.”

Ends Remember Games Easy Boys Morning News Golf Rounds Clubs Opponents Employee Guests Gang Deceived Caddies

Book:Some notes on lifemanship: with a summary of recent researches in gamesmanship

Source: Some notes on lifemanship: with a summary of recent researches in gamesmanship

“The only time I talk on the golf course is to my caddie. And then only to complain when he gives me the wrong club.”

Giving Courses Give Me Golf Clubs Complaining Only Time Golf Course Caddies

Author:Seve Ballesteros

“My caddie dared me to try it, but I didn't think it was worth losing a ball.”

Thinking Trying Losing Balls Golf Caddies

Author:Ian Woosnam

“I told my caddie today that I am in the position that I want to be in. That this is what I have been waiting for, to win my tenth victory. I said that I am going to do everything that I can do today and that nothing is going to stop me.”

Want Has Beens Said I Can Today Winning Waiting Can Do Position Victory Golf Caddies

Author:Annika Sorenstam

“I try to respect everybody out here: players, caddies, fans, media.”

Trying Player Fans Media Caddies

Author:Phil Mickelson

“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.”

Mean Games Sports Study Player Air Feet Movement Ready Wind Findings Shots Balls Golf Gentle Grass Branches Routine Hitting Conferences Blades Psychologist Blades Of Grass Caddies

Author:Doug Ferguson

“I don't think anywhere is there a symbiotic relationship between caddie and player like there is in golf.”

Thinking Player Golf Caddies

Author:Johnny Miller

“I love baseball, but being here (in the United States), I've been able to play golf every day. I can't play in Japan because every course has caddies, and the caddies all want autographs and don't want to let me golf.”

Want I Can States Play Able Courses United United States Baseball Let Me Golf Japan Autographs Let Me Go Caddies Baseball Love

Author:Ichiro Suzuki

“My horse was in the lead, coming down the home stretch, but the caddie fell off.”

Home Horse Jockeys Caddies

Author:Samuel Goldwyn

“Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor.”

People Years Humor Courses Difficult Deals Boys Golf Racist Sense Of Humor Vulgar Alcoholics Golf Course Caddies

Author:Martin Sheen

“Make friends with your caddie and the game will make friends with you.”

Games Golf Caddies

Book:Some notes on lifemanship: with a summary of recent researches in gamesmanship

Source: Some notes on lifemanship: with a summary of recent researches in gamesmanship

“John's old Caddie had a huge engine that would qualify as a human rights violation if built today. It roared down the road, chugging gas and farting a blue cloud of dinosaur souls.”

Ifs Humans Soul Today Rights Huge Built Blue Clouds Human Rights Gas Engines Violation Dinosaurs Down The Road Caddies

Book:This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It

Source: This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It

“Golf's really fun in Japan because of the women caddies. ... I saw one guy start out playing alone with his caddie. By the 9th hole they were engaged and when they finished on 18 they had a foursome.”

Funny Guy Fun Saws Humorous Golf Finished Holes Engaged Japan Caddies Foursomes

Author:Bob Hope

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