Showing posts with label Sam Snead. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sam Snead. Show all posts

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Golf is not a game, it's bondage

Golf Quotes

Golf is not a game, it's bondage. It was obviously devised by a man torn with guilt, eager to atone for his sins. ~Jim Murray


These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow. ~Sam Snead


Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt. ~Jack Nicklaus, on why he tees his ball high.


Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result. ~Tommy Armour


Who watches golf on TV? Who calls eight friends over and gets a keg of beer? Landscapers, I guess. They sit around the TV, yelling, "Will you look at that golf path? Pure pea gravel." ~Jeff Cesario


But you don't have to go up in the stands and play your foul balls. I do. ~Sam Snead, to Ted Williams, arguing which was more difficult, to hit a moving baseball or a stationary golf ball


A hole in one is amazing when you think of the different universes this white mass of molecules has to pass through on its way to the hole. ~Mac O'Grady


Trevino is in a league by himself. We don't even count him. We figure when you come in second, you're a winner. ~Chi Chi Rodriguez


Golf is a game in which you yell "fore," shoot six, and write down five. ~Paul Harvey


In golf, you keep your head down and follow through. In the vice presidency, you keep your head up and follow through. It's a big difference. ~Dan Quayle


You can't call it a sport. You don't run, jump, you don't shoot, you don't pass. All you have to do is buy some clothes that don't match. ~Steve Sax

from : http://www.quotegarden.com
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Thursday, November 4, 2010

Golf is a good walk spoiled

Golf Quotes

Golf is a good walk spoiled. ~Mark Twain

Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's. ~Grantland Rice

If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt. ~Dean Martin

They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. Golf is more complicated than that. ~Gardner Dickinson


Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic. ~Author Unknown

The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing. ~Phyllis Diller


Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick. ~P.J. O'Rourke

It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification. ~Bruce McCall

Forget your opponents; always play against par. ~Sam Snead

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. ~Arnold Palmer


If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is. ~Horace G. Hutchinson


If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death. ~Sam Snead


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