Harry Vardon Quotes

#1. Even in our darkest hour we must remember; never dispair.

Harry Vardon

#2. Happiness is a moment.

Anna Carey

#3. There are many ways of performing the operations successfully. I can claim, however, to be in a position to explain how not to putt. I think I know as well as anybody how not to do it.

Harry Vardon

#4. If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near him and audibly count his strokes. It would be justifiable homicide if he wound up his pitiable exhibition by applying his niblick to your head.

Harry Vardon

#5. Golfers find it a very trying matter to turn at the waist, more particularly if they have a lot of waist to turn

Harry Vardon

#6. No matter what happens, keep on hitting the ball.

Harry Vardon

#7. Never concede the putt that beats you.

Harry Vardon

#8. A great deal of unnecessarily bad golf is played in this world.

Harry Vardon

#9. As I turned the pages, I felt as if there were bees on my fingertips, for I had never felt so alive as when reading.

Alice Hoffman

#10. Moderation is essential in all things, madam, but never in my life have I failed to beat a teetotaller.

Harry Vardon

#11. Do not be tempted to invest in a sample of each golfing invention as soon as it makes its appearance. If you do, you will only complicate and spoil your game - and encumber your locker with useless rubbish.

Harry Vardon

#12. To play well you must feel tranquil and at peace. I have never been troubled by nerves in golf because I felt I had nothing to lose and everything to gain.

Harry Vardon

#13. Acting is collaborative because you are working with another actor, and it's almost like a two-man juggling team. You have to really be in sync.

Steve Martin

#14. More matches are lost through carelessness at the beginning than any other cause.

Harry Vardon

#15. All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.

Jerry Saltz

#16. The most successful way to play golf is the easiest way.

Harry Vardon

#17. I'm the best and I'll thank you to remember that.

Harry Vardon

#18. There are only two types of player-those who keep their nerves under control and win championships, and those who do not.

Harry Vardon

#19. Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.

Harry Vardon

#20. For this game you need, above all things, to be in a tranquil frame of mind.

Harry Vardon

#21. In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.

Robert Sternberg

#22. Never saw one worth a damn.

Harry Vardon

#23. Don't praise your own good shots. Leave that function to your partner who, if a good sport, will not be slow in performing it.

Harry Vardon

#24. I was running around with two guns on my waist like I was Larry Fishburne or something. I wasn't making no money, I was just running around with two guns like Larry Fishburne.

Sean Price

#25. You have to understand the nature of light.

Conrad Hall