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GOLF QUOTES
Quotes cited from Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, 1988.
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Hal Boyle
QUOTATION: Does Grandpa love to baby-sit his grandchildren? Are you kidding? By day he is too busy taking hormone shots at the doctor’s or chip shots on the golf course. At night he and Grandma are too busy doing the cha-cha.
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Jack Nicklaus, golfer
QUOTATION: It' s hard not to play golf that' s up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus
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Gary Player, golfer
QUOTATION: Golf asks something of a man. It makes one loathe mediocrity. It seems to say, “If you are going to keep company with me, don’t embarrass me.”
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John D Rockefeller
QUOTATION: Golf courses are the best place to observe ministers, but none of them are above cheating a bit
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Peter Alfano
QUOTATION: The first thing a television viewer realizes when watching a golf tournament is how the sport tends to make one inclined to whisper and avoid sudden movements, such as walking to the refrigerator [during] a possible birdie putt.
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Paul Moore, Episcopal Bishop of NY
QUOTATION: This summer I tried to take up golf, after many years of avoiding that particular temptation to blasphemy
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George Plimpton
QUOTATION: The smaller the ball used in the sport, the better the book.
ATTRIBUTION: Theory on why books about football don’t sell as well as those about baseball, tennis or golf, NY Times 25 Sep 86
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