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I got an extra hour's nap.
No one ever swung too slowly.
The 'enemy' in golf is tension.
Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
No putt is too short to be despised.
The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
I never learned a thing from a tournament I won.
I never learned anything from a match that I won.
Well, I'm glad we don't have to play in the shade.
Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course
The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.
Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank.
Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.
Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
Many shots are spoiled at the last instant by efforts to add a few more yards.
Golf is the only game I know of that actually becomes harder the longer you play it.
In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
If I needed advice from my caddie, he'd be hitting the shots and I'd be carrying the bag.
Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I'm not even familiar with.
You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.
Rhythm and timing are the two things which we all must have, yet no one knows how to teach either.
I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.
The real way to enjoy playing golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes.
Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one's hand.
I always like to see a person stand up to a golf ball as though he were perfectly at home in its presence.
Bad putting is due more to the effect the green has upon the player than it has upon the action of the ball.
If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.
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.
It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.
Doesn't it show us all that we are silly little boys or fatuous asses to think that we can play golf without making a lot of bad shots?
The rewards of golf, and of life too I expect, are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules.
Golf is said to be an humbling game, but it is surprising how many people are either not aware of their weaknesses of else reckless of consequences.
There isn't a hole out there [Augusta] that can't be birdied if you just think. But there isn't one that can't be double-bogeyed if you stop thinking.
The moment the average golfer attempts to play from long grass or a bunker or from a difficult lie of any kind, he becomes a digger instead of a swinger.
The difference between a sand trap and water hazard is the difference between a car crash and an airplane crash. You have a chance of recovering from a car crash.
Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies.
If I had ever been set down in any one place and told I was to play there, and nowhere else, for the rest of my life, I should have chosen the Old Course at St. Andrews.
As I see it, the thing that hurt my putting most when it was bad, was thinking too much about how I was making the stroke and not enough about getting the ball in the hole.
A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying.
I had held a notion that I could make a pretty fair appraisal of the worth of an opponent simply by speaking to him on the first tee and taking a good measuring look into his eyes.
Golf is recognized as one of the more difficult games to play or teach. One reason for this is that each person necessarily plays by feel, and a feel is almost impossible to describe.