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“I talk to golfers, I talk to my grand kids about their game, and tell them to develop a system, Now, when they're young. And if they develop that system, it will be the crutch they need to be good. To know that system and make it work for you, know what it is and make it work.”

Ifs Knows Needs Kids Young Games Be Good Golfers Crutches

Author:Arnold Palmer

“The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.”

“I consider myself as a character actor. I like the sports analogy, which I do all the time; I'm an avid sports guy. I'm a golfer, but I grew up as sort of an avid fan and participant in baseball, and I'm like a relief pitcher. My job is to come in and throw strikes.”

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Author:Clint Howard

“Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses...”

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Author:Adlai Stevenson I

“A lot of guys who have have never choked, have never been in the position to do so.”

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Author:Tom Watson

“No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.”

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Author:Tom Watson

“If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.”

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Author:Joey Lauren Adams

“Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic.”

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Author:Earl Wilson

“I think today's athletes generally are spoiled by what's happened to salaries, but I also think that golfers have maintained the best demeanor of any sport.”

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Author:Arnold Palmer

“I like to think about music as a sport. But only in terms of golf, as far as the course being music and me being the golfer. So it's competitive but only with yourself. With the last one doing well, it made it a challenge to feel like I was improving in some way.”

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Author:Panda Bear

“Who listens to golfers? They're boring. If I want to wear camouflage on the golf course during a tournament, I will. And I have.”

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Author:Bubba Watson

“As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.”

“The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.”

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Author:Ben Hogan

“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.”

Source: Power Golf

“If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.”

Ifs Has Beens Sports Athlete Shoulders Golfers

Author:Ben Hogan

“Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?”

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Author:Ben Hogan

“If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.”

“There is no such thing as a natural golfer but you become one by hitting thousands of balls”

Natural Balls Hitting Golfers

Author:Lee Trevino

“Every golfer should come to the first tee with fourteen clubs, a dozen balls, a handful of tees, and at least one great golf story”

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Author:Lee Trevino

“The vast majority of golfers don't go on to play golf as a profession, but they do go onto other professions where there will heat on them from time to time. Some people choke under pressure. If you have that as part of your character - that you don't perform well under pressure - it's really important for you to know that. The game teaches you about that.”

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Author:Stewart Cink

“Tips can make someone a better writer but not necessarily a good writer. That's a larger package - a matter of character. Golfing is more than keeping the left arm straight. Every good golfer is a complex engine that runs on ability, ego, determination, discipline, patience, confidence, and other qualities that are self-taught. So it is with writers and all creative artists. If their values are solid their work is likely to be solid.”

“Any golfer worth his salt has to cross the sea and try to win the British Open.”

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Author:Jack Nicklaus

“My body is here, but my mind has already teed off.”

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Author:Keith Michael

“I admire the way golfers handle themselves. But tennis players are a lot younger, as a rule. There aren't many teenagers on the golf tour.”

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Author:Pete Sampras

“I think the image of golfers is terrific, and rightly so.”

Thinking Terrific Golfers

Author:Pete Sampras

“Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.”

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Author:Orson Welles

“I'm now unemployed. It's a weird feeling with no work, but at least there's still golf. Standup comedy is like my core, it's what I do. But I want to be a pro golfer. It's a love/hate relationship with golf. I can come away feeling so serene, and yet, it's the thing that I can let get to me to throw a club and say curses that don't even exist. I'm obsessed with something that won't let me master it. I don't know. I need therapy.”

“Like NASCAR race drivers or PGA golfers, why not require each of the [US presidential] candidates to cover their clothing, briefcases and staff with the logo patches of their corporate sponsors?”

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Author:Jim Hightower

“I am a firm believer in 'negative thinking' when used correctly. We need to be AWARE of negatives so that we can steer clear of them. A golfer needs to know where the bunkers and sand traps are - but he doesn't think continuously about the bunker - where he doesn't want to go. His mind glances at the bunker, but he DWELLS upon the green.”

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Book:Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life

Source: Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life

“This is the great thing about Northern Ireland. I walk down the street and people stop me and say things like, 'I know you. You're that wee golfer, aren't you?' I say, 'Yeah, that's me.' They say, 'Keep it up, wee man.' It's very funny and that's why I want to stay here as long as possible.”

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Author:Rory McIlroy

“There are times when a golfer is tempted to throw her clubs away and forget the whole 'humblin' business.' At other times, she wouldn't trade places with a queen-that's when the shots are long and true, and putts are dropping.”

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Author:Babe Didrikson Zaharias

“The mediocre golfer generally is one who is too lazy to play better.”

Play Lazy Mediocre Golfers

Book:Championship golf

Source: Championship golf

“I do less of that stuff now because I figured out that when I was writing things I didn't care about, it made me angry and depressed, so I turned my focus to what does make me happy, and also I recognized that one of the things that gives me great happiness is teaching creative writing, and so I could write profiles of professional golfers or I could be a professor. Being a professor made me much happier.”

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Author:Tod Goldberg

“I don't really remember, but from about the age of five I told anyone who would listen that I was going to be the best golfer in the world.”

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Author:Rory McIlroy

“Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.”

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Author:Bobby Jones

“A lot more variables in golf. But the biggest thing is like just routine. Like I think that's the biggest correlation between golfers and basketball players, is for me I really rely on my routine every single day when I get ready for games and how I prepare.”

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Author:Stephen Curry

“There is no shape nor size of body, no awkwardness nor ungainliness, which puts good golf beyond reach. There are good golfers with spectacles, with one eye, with one leg, even with one arm. In golf, while there is life there is hope.”

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Author:Charles Walter Simpson

“You try to figure out the two things that I use as the philosophy to do a golf course. The first is that most people are really interested in something being aesthetically pleasing and good to the eye. The second is that a good golfer likes good golf shots.”

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Author:Jack Nicklaus

“We called [my son] Gary "Little Herschel" when he was in middle school - but then he didn't grow any taller. He ended up playing golf and being a really nice golfer.”

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Author:Jack Nicklaus

“I suppose I get a lot of questions about Tiger. But Tiger Woods is a tremendous talent. He plays well. He has a great work ethic. He's probably as talented of a golfer as anyone who's ever played.”

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Author:Jack Nicklaus

“If a guy is a good athlete, he'll end up being a pretty decent golfer if he just takes it up. But you never master it; even the best players in the world never master the game.”

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Author:Jack Nicklaus

“If anything, more kids that want to get good at golf will get fine-tuned. It's factual. It's science, how to build a golfer. I think that's huge.”

Ifs Thinking Want Kids Huge Fine Golf Golfers Factual

Author:Nick Faldo

“I think, first of all, I'm very proud of Sam Saunders in general. I am happy to see him playing well and his performance has been good. He is coming on as I hoped he would at this stage of his life.He is a fine young man as well as a fine golfer. He is doing things the right way.”

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Author:Arnold Palmer

“I've drawn a lot of inspiration from people who have supported me, golfers who have helped me. If it wasn't for the game of golf I'd probably be mowing the greens back in Latrobe.”

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Author:Arnold Palmer

“The book on my nightstand right now isnt anything that inspired me, but it entertained me. I read a book on Labor Day, it was a holiday, and I have three daughters, and we all went to the shopping mall and I sat on the bench and read a book while they shopped, it was called The Greatest Golfer there Ever Was, it was a great book, easy to read and entertaining.”

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Author:Max Lucado

“There's no set time or schedule for developing one's skills as a professional golfer, and it certainly doesn't come overnight. It's a muscle-memory exercise that comes over time.”

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Author:Ben Hogan

“Who wants to be reputable? That's for golfers and tycoons with a sleazy past.”

Want Past Golfers Tycoons Sleazy

Author:Tim Winton

“I'm pretty much an open book. I am a fanatic golfer and golf nut. If I have three free hours any day, my first choice is to run to the golf course if the weather is nice.”

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Author:Thomas Friedman

“And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, then you're not going to believe in the golf story, you're not going to believe in the rest of the film. That's the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie's crap.”

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Author:Shia LaBeouf

“If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.”

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