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Golf is the only game I know of that actually becomes harder the longer you play it.

The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.

Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.

Many shots are spoiled at the last instant by efforts to add a few more yards.

Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.

I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.

I got an extra hour's nap.

Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course ... the space between your ears.

I never learned a thing from a tournament I won.

Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.

Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.

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.

Well, I'm glad we don't have to play in the shade.

Golf is the one game I know
which becomes more and more
difficult the longer one plays it.

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course

Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.

It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.

Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I'm not even familiar with.

The best exercise for golfers is golfing.

You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank.

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.

Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.

The 'enemy' in golf is tension.

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.

If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.

If I needed advice from my caddie, he'd be hitting the shots and I'd be carrying the bag.

I never learned anything from a match that I won.

You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.

Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.

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 a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one's hand.

The real way to enjoy playing golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes.

No putt is too short to be despised.

Bad putting is due more to the effect the green has upon the player than it has upon the action of the ball.

Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.

Rhythm and timing are the two things which we all must have, yet no one knows how to teach either.

I always like to see a person stand up to a golf ball as though he were perfectly at home in its presence.

The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.

No one ever swung too slowly.

In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.