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Is my friend in the bunker or is the bastard on the green?
-Anon.
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All is fair in love and golf.
-Proverb
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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
-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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Although Golf was originally restricted to wealthy Protestants, today its open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.
-Dave Barry
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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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I go into the locker room and find a corner and just sit there. I try to achieve a peaceful state of nothingness that will carry over onto the golf course. If I can get that feeling of quiet and obliviousness within myself, I feel I can't lose.
-Jane Blalock
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Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?
-Al Boliska
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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, 1967
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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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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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Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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I throw a ball and get paid for it. Others do it by throwing the bull.
-Jerome Dean
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If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.
-Paul Gallico
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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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Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behavior not otherwise excusable.
-Auberon Herbert
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If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
-Bob Hope
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A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.
-Billy Joel
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Books about Golf
