Your Golf Quote and why?

[gt6974a]

What's your favorite quote and why?

Mine...

"You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank" ~ Bobby Jones

Not so much for calling a penalty on himself but an example on how everyone should live their lives, honestly!

Oh yeah and he went to Tech.

I think there are some other quotes from Jones that are more specific to the game, even though this was as well, but it's great in life.



My #2 quote would be...

"Remember Danny - Two wrongs don't make a right but three rights make a left." ~Chevy Chase

[MGP]

I think my favorite golf quote has always been:

The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil. ~Author Unknown

In relation to your #2 quote, one of my favorite lines in the movie:

(Danny, while hitting his approach blindfolded over water): "Where'd it go?"
(Ty - Chevy Chase): "In the lumber yard, Danny..."

I also have a great quote I personally heard Lee Trevino make while watching an exhibition with Tom Watson about 20 years ago, but I'd probably get banned for posting it here.

[Q.Q.Quillume]

“Do not be tempted to invest in a sample of each golfing invention as soon as it makes its appearance. If you do so, you will only complicate your game and encumber your locker with much rubbish.”
-- Harry Vardon

When you hear someone shout "You da man," if he ain't shouting at Arnold Palmer, then it ain't da man.
-- Ron Green, Charlotte Observer

“After all, golf is only a game," said Millicent.
Women say these things without thinking. It does not mean that there is a kink in their character. They simply don't realise what they are saying.
-- P.G. Wodehouse

[ABPositive]

"A hit must be perfectly timed, but a swing will time itself." -Grantland Rice

A favorite quote because it's a swing thought I can take to the course!

[Ogg]

My favorite has been for a long time:

"If you like golf, you gotta like that shot!"

As spoken by Chunkin' Charlie - an old guy dieing from cancer but still just enjoying the game in Rick Reilly's book "Missing Links" (still the best golf book ever written in my eyes)

[niblick]

Every day you miss practicing is one day longer it will take you to get good. -Ben Hogan

[georgep]

"You can talk to a fade, but a hook won't listen." -- Lee Trevino

[fusioncal]

"Golf is like a love affair. If you don't take it seriously, it's no fun; if you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart." - Arthur Daley

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

"Real golfers, no matter what the provocation, never strike a caddie with the driver. The sand wedge is far more effective." - Huxtable Pippey

The funniest one comes from Lee Trevino:
"If you're caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron." - Lee Trevino

[GirlieGolfer]

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


Tiff

[MaRx]

"Somebody's closssser" - Adam Sandler (& me )

[flap]

Upon watching an ugly swing",It looks like St.Patrick driving away the snakes"

[Q.Q.Quillume]

  flap said:

Upon watching an ugly swing",It looks like St.Patrick driving away the snakes"

To whom is the quote attributed? Inquiring minds want to know.

[flashman70]

Reporter to Sam Snead: "Did (notoriously taciturn) Ben Hogan have anything to say to you during your 18 hole playoff?"

Sam: "Absolutely."

Reporter: "What?"

Sam: "You're away."

[flap]

I belive it was Gary McCord but not sure.

[golfchief]

The more I practice the luckier I get.- I think it was Gary Player.

[GreensDruid]

Sam Snead was good for a few:

"The greens are harder than a *****'s heart."

Q: What abandoned course is that?
A: That sir, is no abandoned course, that is where we play the Open Championship.
(Snead's conversation with a fellow passenger upon arriving by train at St. Andrews and 1946)

"The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish."

[lamebums]

"It's better to be long and inaccurate than short and inaccurate." - John Daly

It's sort of an extension of the way I've always played--hit the ball as hard as I can, and then go look for it. Most of my friends - a fine group of the most glorious hacks we'd make - are the same way. Nothing makes a man look more manly than when he's able to move his golf ball great distances, and I take that literally on the golf course.

(My short game is atrocious... that's another story.)

[Nate]

"I'm a hockey player but im here to play golf" - Adam Sandler as Happy Gilmore