Walter Hagen Quotes & Sayings

#1. My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?

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#2. I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.

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#3. Give me a man with big hands and big feet and no brains and I'll make a golfer out of him.

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#4. Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.

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#5. No one remembers who came in second.

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#6. I never played a perfect 18 holes. There is no such thing. I expect to make at least seven mistakes a round. Therefore, when I make a bad shot, I don't worry about it. It is just one of the seven.

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#7. It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

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#8. It pleased the public to think I lived the easy, carefree life - the playboy of golf.

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#9. You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

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#10. What a shame to waste those great shots on the practice tee.

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#11. 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 you're not even off the first tee.

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#12. I don't want to be a millionaire; just live like one.

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#13. Why waste good shots in practice when you might need them in a match?

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#14. Whatever happens on the golf course is OK, because if I put the ball in trouble I know that I have the skills to get it out of trouble and back into play.

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#15. Trouble shots are surprisingly easy if you activate your imagination. You simply must be able to imagine exactly what flight the ball will take before you can play any shot well.

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#16. Don't forget to stop and smell the roses.

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#17. You don't have the game you played last year or last week. You only have today's game. It may be far from your best, but that's all you've got. Harden your heart and make the best of it.

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#18. He may have gone to bed three hours ago, but he knows who he is playing. You can rest assured that he hasn't slept a wink.

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#19. Short putts are missed because it is not physically possible to make the little ball travel over uncertain ground for three or four feet with any degree of regularity.

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