Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.
When One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks, not that you won or lost, but how you played the game.
Christy Mathewson brought something to baseball no one else had ever given the game. He handed the game a certain touch of class, an indefinable lift in culture, brains, and personality.
One might as well attempt to describe the smoothness of the wind as to paint a clear picture of his complete swing.
You wonder how they do it and you look to see the knack You watch the foot in action, or the shoulder or the back, But when you spot the answer where the higher glamours lurk You’ll find in moving higher up the laurel covered spire That most of it is practice and the rest of it is work.
Failure isn’t so bad if it doesn’t attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn’t go to the head.
Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body – by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.
It’s not whether you won or lost, but how many bad-beat stories you were able to tell.
I await the hour when a journalist can be driven from the press room for venal practices, as a minister can be unfrocked, or a lawyer disbarred.
There are many stars and a few super-stars in sport. There are champions who bag a coronet now and then, and there are others who dominate some game year after year. In other words there are Bobby Jones and Helen Wills.
I am the servant of my score.
Because golf exposes the flaws of the human swing – a basically simple maneuver – it causes more self-torture than any game short of Russian roulette.
There are three types of golf: golf, tournament golf and Major championship golf.
There is no type of miracle that can’t happen at least once in golf.
Every father who ever lived has a dream for his son.
This is the substance of our Plot-For those who play the Perfect Shot, There are ten thousand who do not.
Few learn golf in a lifetime.
Play ball! Means something more than runs Or pitches thudding into gloves! Remember through the summer suns This is the game your country loves.
Rhythm is best expressed in any swing directed at a cigar stump or a dandelion head.
I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning.
All wars are planned by old men in council rooms apart.