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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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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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Magellan went around the world in 1521, which is not too many strokes when you consider the distance.
-Joe Laurie Jr.
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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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If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
-Jack Lemmon
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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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Drive for show, but putt for dough.
-Bobby Locke
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The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.
-Nancy Lopez
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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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I used to get out there and have a thousand swing thoughts. Now I try not to have any.
-Davis Love, Jr.
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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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Golf is the pursuit of the infinite.
-Jim Murray
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Aggressive play is a vital asset of the world's greatest golfers. However, it's even more important to the average player. Attack this game in a bold, confident, and determined way, and you'll make a giant leap toward realizing your full potential as a player.
-Greg Norman
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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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Anyone who likes golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.
-Andy Rooney
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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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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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Golf is a fine relief from the tensions of office, but we are a little tired of holding the bag.
-Adlai Stevenson
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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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When I joined the Tour I studied the best players to see what they did that I didn't do. I came to the conclusion that the successful players had the Three Cs: Confidence, Composure, Concentration.
-Bob Toski
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Books about Golf
