Golf Putting Quotes:

It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.

- Arnold Palmer

source: FaceBook post by Arnold Palmer from Oct 04, 2016

topic: Golf, Practice, Funny Things, Inspirational Golf, Sports Competition

Half of golf is fun; the other half is putting.

- Peter Dobereiner

topic: Fun, Golf, Other Half, Golf Putting, Great Golfing

Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Luck, Harder, Predictable, Motivational Bodybuilding, Lucky Man

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

- Arnold Palmer

topic: Wisdom, Golf, Natural, Natural Gifts, Golf Putting

A good player who is a great putter is a match for any golfer. A great hitter who cannot putt is a match for no one.

- Ben Sayers

topic: Golf, Player, Golfers, Golf Putting

I've heard people say putting is 50 percent technique and 50 percent mental. I really believe it is 50 percent technique and 90 percent positive thinking, see, but that adds up to 140 percent, which is why nobody is 100 percent sure how to putt.

- Chi Chi Rodriguez

topic: Believe, Positive Thinking, Golf, Golf Life, Golf Putting

The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top.

- Pete Dye

topic: Funny, Golf, Play, Inspirational Golf, Playing Golf

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.

- Arnold Palmer

topic: Golf, Simple, Complicated, Inspirational Golf, Life Is A Game

There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.

- Ben Hogan

topic: Golf, Air, Games, Humorous Golf, Great Golf

The most important shot in golf is the next one.

- Ben Hogan

topic: Golf, Important, Next, Golf Ball, The Next One

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

- Mark Twain

topic: Funny, Sports, Inspiration, Golf Ball, Inspirational Golf

Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money.

- Lee Trevino

topic: Real, Golf, Hands, Motivational Golf, Great Golf

I never pray to God to make a putt. I pray to God to help me react good if I miss a putt.

- Chi Chi Rodriguez

topic: Golf, Missing, Helping, Great Golf, Good Golf

Never concede the putt that beats you.

- Harry Vardon

topic: Golf, Beats, Golf Putting, Greatest Golf

A tap-in is a putt that is short enough to be missed one-handed.

- Henry Beard

topic: Golf, Enough, Missed Ones, Golf Putting

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

- Arnold Palmer

topic: Art, Athlete, Golf, Inspirational Golf, Motivational Golf

This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.

- Ben Hogan

topic: Golf, Winning, Games, Great Golf, Funny Golfing

My favorite shots are the practice swing and the conceded putt. The rest can never be mastered.

- George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Golf, Swings, Practice, Humorous Golf, Great Golf

If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.

- Dean Martin

source: "Famous drinkers" by Rob Parker, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2004.

topic: Drinking, Book, Beer, Funny Sarcastic, Inspirational Golf

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

topic: Funny, Hope, Inspirational Sports, Humorous Golf, Golf Ball

Putting allows the touchy golfer two to four opportunities to blow a gasket in the short space of two to forty feet.

- Tommy Bolt

source: "Golf: The Game of Lessening Failures". Book by Bob Glanville, 2010.

topic: Golf, Opportunity, Blow, Touchy, Funny Golfing

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

- Sam Snead

topic: Sports, Golf, Knives, Humorous Golf, Inspirational Golf

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.

- Bobby Jones

topic: Basketball, Sports, Golf, Playing Golf, Great Golf

Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt.

- Sam Snead

topic: Golf, Dimes, Whiskey, Nickels, Golf Putting

The more I practice, the luckier I get.

- Jerry Barber

topic: Sports, Practice, Inspirational Athlete, Inspirational Golf, Sports Competition

When you lip out several putts in a row, you should never think that means that you're putting well. When you're putting well, the only question is what part of the hole it's going to fall in, not if it's going in.

- Jack Nicklaus

topic: Fall, Mean, Golf, Golf Putting, Greatest Golf

The better your attitude and the harder you work, the luckier you get.

- Robert G. Allen

topic: Attitude, Harder, Motivational Bodybuilding, Funny Golfing, Golf Putting

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose

- Winston Churchill

topic: Funny, Golf, Games, Humorous Golf, Golf Ball

Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt.

- Fletcher Knebel

topic: Golf, Men, Feet, Funny Golf, Golf Life

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.

- A. A. Milne

source: A. A. Milne (2012). “Not That it Matters”, p.22, The Floating Press

topic: Golf, Games, World, Inspirational Golf, Funny Golf

You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.

- Lee Trevino

topic: Golf, Hook, Humorous Golf, Golfing, Funny Golf

My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Attitude, Golf, Games, Inspirational Golf, Motivational Golf

Golf is the hardest game in the world. There is no way you can ever get it. Just when you think you do, the game jumps up and puts you in your place.

- Ben Crenshaw

topic: Golf, Thinking, Games, Golfing, Golf Game

Never break your putter and your driver in the same round or you're dead.

- Tommy Bolt

topic: Golf, Break, Drivers, Funny Golf, Funny Golfing

I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.

- Gerald R. Ford

topic: Funny, Sports, Golf, Humorous Golf, Inspirational Golf

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

source: Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

topic: Sports, Golf, Guitar, Humorous Golf, Inspirational Golf

I'm not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they'd come up sliced.

- Lee Trevino

source: Quoted in Scholastic Coach,'Coaches' Corner', Dec 1982.

topic: Golf, Games, Tomatoes, Humorous Golf, Golfing

While playing golf today, I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.

- Henny Youngman

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Golf, Two, Balls, Humorous Golf, Golf Ball

My father's saying, The harder you work, the luckier you get.

- Fiona Wood

topic: Education, Father, Learning, Motivational Bodybuilding, Funny Golfing

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

- Gary Player

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Work, Motivational Bodybuilding, Luck And Hard Work

The harder you work, the luckier you become.

- Carl Karcher

topic: Harder, Motivational Bodybuilding, Luck And Hard Work, Car Racing, Golf Putting

No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.

- Tom Watson

topic: Sports, Golf, Games, Wonder Of Nature, Golf Putting