Ben Crenshaw Golf Quotes

#1. My golf game's gone off so much that when I went fishing a couple of weeks ago my first cast missed the lake.

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#2. 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.

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#3. I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance my left ear is from my right.

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#4. It's Star Wars golf. This place was designed by Darth Vader.

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#5. The reason the Road Hole at St. Andrews is the most difficult par 4 in the world is that it was designed as a par 6.

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#6. This is happening all over the world. It's not just this golf course. Hopefully, if it stays dry, it will let a few more people in (contention). If it gets wet, though, there's only a few people where it's attainable.

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#7. The everlasting universe of things
Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves,
Now dark
now glittering
now reflecting gloom
Now lending splendour, where from secret springs
The source of human thought its tribute brings.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#8. I enjoy Augusta. I enjoy its challenges. There's no other golf course like this anywhere. Its greens and its challenges on and around the greens are just super, super tough. So the greens are fun to play in sort of a morbid way.

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#9. You learn to accept defeat graciously in golf. Unlike other sports, the game itself is a constant opponent. It never stops. A golfer is fortunate to win a few times. We spend our whole lives trying to conquer something, and we lose a lot more than we win.

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#10. If we are to preserve the integrity of golf as left to us by our forefathers, it is up to all of us to carry on the true spirit of the game.

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#11. I had a 15th club in my bag.

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#12. I don't have any big secret about putting. Just hit at it. It's either going to miss or go in.

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#13. Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Phyllis Theroux

#14. I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.

Abraham Maslow

#15. Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience, and the best travellers ... seem to be those able to hold two or three inconsistent ideas in their minds at the same time, or able to regard themselves as at once serious persons and clowns.

Paul Fussell

#16. Greatness, Master, is generally only considered enough if you are the greatest.

Jessica O'Toole

#17. I would tell most young people that in life you can go through many difficulties, but if you know what you want to do, if you can focus, and work, then in the end, you will end up doing it. No matter what happens, if you don't give up, you will still succeed.

William Kamkwamba

#18. It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object.

Thomas Paine

#19. The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his.

Bill Vaughan

#20. A good golf course makes you want to play so badly that you hardly have the time to change your shoes.

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