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"If there is one thing golf demands above all else, it is honesty."
Jack Nicklaus

"Golf is not and has never has been a fair game. I think I fail just a bit less than everyone else."
Jack Nicklaus

"The harder you work, the luckier you get."
Gary Player

"When you play the game for fun...it's fun. When you play it for a living...it's a game of sorrows."
Gary Player

When informed that he was ranked first in fairway hits, Colin Montgomerie replied,
"That's great. They should put the hole in the fairway"

"Every golfer can expect to have four bad shots in a round and when you do, just put them out of your mind. This, of course is hard to do when you've had them and your not even off the first tee."
Walter Hagen

"A lot of guys who have never choked have never been in a position to do so."
Tom Watson

"I had played so poorly recently, I started thinking that maybe I should do something else. Then I saw my friends going to work everyday and realized that my life wasn't so bad."
Steve Pate

"I'd like to see the fairways more narrow. Then everyone would have to play from the rough, not just me."
Seve Ballesteros

In his prime, Seve Ballesteros was a very aggressive player knowing that he could take uncanny risks because of his incredible short game. He was an phenomenal putter. One time when asked by a writer to translate "lag putt" into Spanish, he thought for several moments then asked, " What is a lag putt?"

"Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing."
Ben Hogan

"I play with friends, but we don't play friendly games."
Ben Hogan

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

"When I'm on a golf course and it starts to rain and lightning, I hold up my one iron, 'cause I know even God can't hit a one iron."
Lee Trevino

“His nerve, his memory and I can’t remember the third thing.”
Lee Trevino, on the three things an aging golfer loses

"I'm going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money-winners list."
Lee Trevino

"Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money."
Lee Trevino

"No one who ever had lessons would have a swing like mine."
Lee Trevino

"You don't know what pressure is until you've played for five dollars a hole with only two in your pocket."
Lee Trevino

"Golf is a good walk spoiled."
Mark Twain

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

"Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated."
Arnold Palmer

"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

"Why am I using a new putter? Because the last one didn't float too well."
Craig Stadler

"Golf is 90 percent inspiration and 10 percent perspiration."
Johnny Miller

"The game was easy for me as a kid, and I had to play a while to find out how hard it is."
Raymond Floyd, PGA Professional.

"I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father."
Greg Norman