Quotations About / On: GOLF

  • 1.
    Golf is a good walk spoiled.
    (Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910), U.S. author. Attributed, quoted in "Golf," Greatly Exaggerated, ed. Alex Ayres (1988).)
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  • 2.
    If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.
    (Paul Gallico (1897-1976), U.S. novelist. New York Times (March 6, 1977).)
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  • 3.
    If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
    (Jack Lemmon (b. 1925), U.S. actor. Sports Illustrated (New York, Dec. 9, 1985).)
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  • 4.
    Golf is a fine relief from the tensions of office, but we are a little tired of holding the bag.
    (Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965), U.S. Democratic politician. Quoted in Leon Harris, The Fine Art of Political Wit, ch. 10 (1964). Referring to President Eisenhower's passion for golf.)
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  • 5.
    A golf course is nothing but a pool room moved outdoors.
    (Frank Butler (1890-1967), British screenwriter, and Frank Cavett (1907-1973), U.S. screenwriter. Father Fitzgibbon (Barry Fitzgerald), Going My Way, after turning down an invitation to go golfing because of the profanity heard there (1944).)
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  • 6.
    Einstein is not ... merely an artist in his moments of leisure and play, as a great statesman may play golf or a great soldier grow orchids. He retains the same attitude in the whole of his work. He traces science to its roots in emotion, which is exactly where art is also rooted.
    (Havelock Ellis (1859-1939), British psychologist. The Dance of Life, ch. 3 (1923).)
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  • 7.
    There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.
    (Billie Jean King (b. 1943), U.S. tennis player. Billie Jean, ch. 2 (1982).)
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  • 8.
    If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
    (Bob Hope (b. 1903), U.S. comedian. quoted in Reader's Digest (Pleasantville, N.Y., Oct. 1958).)
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