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Is my friend in the bunker or is the bastard on the green?
-Anon.
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It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
-Hank Aaron, "Sportswit" by Lee Green (1984)
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Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.
-Amy Strum Alcott
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Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy.
-Amy Strum Alcott
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In general, the short game has been most effective. Besides working hard on it I always used my imagination with a touch of feel in my hands. You should hit the ball according to what your mind dictates but previously you should visualise the shot. This can be achieved with extremely high concentration. All the difficult shots are hit with the hands. I have hit shots simply by visualising the run of the ball. I had no problem in doing this because my mind clearly indicated I could not miss. I do not stand out any particular shot because it is necessary to believe in yourself to overcome any difficulties.
-Seve Ballesteros, [Responding to the question: Is there any one shot in particular that stands out for you and why that one above all the other great shots?]
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Every time a fellow golfer gives me a piece of advice I have thought about it. A different thing is that this advice can be introduced into my golfing routine. Jaime, O’Grady and others are good friends who have wished me the best and I am grateful for that. My best game has come from the strength of my mind. When you have a balanced and rhythmical swing you should exercise it with looseness and imagination. Finally I must say as long as I believed in my own movements I had the winning results. Moreover, I still believe my swing was the best.
-Seve Ballesteros, Interview
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"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."
-Seve Ballesteros
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Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
-Jack Benny
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There is nothing in this game of golf that can't be improved upon if you practice.
-Patty Berg
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Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.
-Dave Berry
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"By the time you get to your ball, if you don't know what to do with it, try another sport."
-Julius Boros
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The putter looks like a bunch of nuts and bolts welded together, but the ball goes in the hole.
-Julius Boros, [said after winning the PGA Tour’s Phoenix Open using the world’s first heel-toe balanced putter, named Ping, designed by Karsten Solheim, an emigrant from Norway], 1967
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"Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurement it invites the attention of perfectionists."
-Heywood Hale Broun, Tumultuous Merriment, 1979
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I'm not much of a golfer, I don't have any friends and all I like to do is go home and be alone, and not worry about ways not to lose.
-Paul William "Bear" Bryant
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A golf course is the epitome of all that is transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.
-Jean Giraudoux, The Enchanted, 1933
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Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But this is certainly not the case.
-Bobby Jones
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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.
-Bobby Jones
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"Live.....Laugh.....GOLF!!!"
-Kathryn Schaefer Plaum
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Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
-Stephen Leacock, "Why I refuse to play Golf"
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I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you're working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn't dream of interrupting on the golf course.
-Harper Lee, "Writer's Digest"
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Among golfers the putter is usually known as the payoff club and how right that is! Putting is in fact a game in itself.
-Bobby Locke
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Do your best, one shot at a time and then move on. Remember that golf is just a game.
-Nancy Lopez
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I play in the low 80's. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
-Joe E. Louis
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"When it's breezy, hit it easy."
-Davis Love, Jr.
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If I had my way, no man guilty of golf would be eligible to any office of trust under the United States.
-H. L. Mencken
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I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
-Arnold Palmer
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"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."
-Rick Reilly
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"These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow."
-Sam Snead
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The three things I fear most in golf are lightning, Ben Hogan and a downhill putt.
-Sam Snead
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"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."
-Louise Suggs
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The Ping Eye 2 Beryllium One iron is my favorite club. All golfers fear and hate the One. It has no angle, no pitch, no loft . . . It is straight up and down, like a putter, and the chances of a normal person getting a ball up in the air with it are usually about 1,000 to 1 against . . . The one iron is a confidence crusher, a Fear Trip, with almost certain guarantee of Shame, Failure, Dumbness, and Humiliation if you ever use it in public. Few PGA pros ever touch the One, and most amateurs won't even carry it in their bags. The One is so ugly, they will tell you, so evil an wrong by nature that its mere presence in the bag poisons all the other clubs.
-Hunter S. Thompson, Songs Of The Doomed - More Notes On The Death Of The American Dream (page 299)
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You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.
-Lee Trevino
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Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-Mark Twain
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Golf...is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and plays his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
-P. G. [Sir Pelham Grenville] Wodehouse
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It will always be the ball and me.
-Tiger Woods
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I am the toughest golfer mentally.
-Tiger Woods
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I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.
-Tiger Woods
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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.
-Mickey Wright
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Books about Golf
