Top 42 Penick Quotes
#1. A golfer rarely needs to hit a spectacular shot until the one that preceded it was pretty bad.
Harvey Penick
#2. Be yourself. Play within yourself. Play your own game.
Harvey Penick
#3. Looking up is the biggest alibi ever invented to explain a terrible shot. By the time you look up, you've already made the mistake.
Harvey Penick
#4. A pretty girl will always have the toughest time learning to play golf, because every man wants to give her lessons.
Harvey Penick
#5. Just as I do, Bill was always telling pupils to relax their elbows, since the elbow is the most important joint we have in the movement of the golf swing. Bill and I were in total agreement that the attempt to keep a straight left arm means ruination for most golfers.
Harvey Penick
#6. People get really scared when women reclaim words, talk about themselves honestly and also make jokes because it's a really unstoppable combination.
Caitlin Moran
#7. I see things written about the golf swing that I can't believe will work except by accident .
Harvey Penick
#8. Michael Moore simultaneously represents everything I detest in a human being and everything I feel obligated to defend in an American. Quite simply, it is that stupid moron's right to be that utterly, completely wrong.
Dennis Miller
#9. Anyone who doesn't think the government killed my father either hasn't given the issue much thought, or is insane ...
Sean Lennon
#10. In my opinion, no young player can develop his or her game to its highest potential if he or she rides around the course in a golf cart.
Harvey Penick
#11. You don't lose your swing between the ninth green and the tenth tee, and you don't lose your swing from one day to the next. If you think you do, something is going on that you don't understand. A diary might help explain it to you.
Harvey Penick
#12. On the morning after the storm the body of a drowned giant was washed ashore on the beach five miles to the north-west of the city.
J.G. Ballard
#13. Make a game out of practice, you're still a child at heart
Harvey Penick
#14. I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches.
Harvey Penick
#15. I don't care how good you play, you can find somebody who can beat you, and I don't care how bad you play, you can find somebody you can beat.
Harvey Penick
#17. I compare the pressure of a golf shot with making an extra point in basketball. The player starts from a full stop, and that rim doesn't move.
Harvey Penick
#18. Go out and have fun. Golf is a game for everyone, not just for the talented few.
Harvey Penick
#19. No matter how poorly you play, there is always someone you can beat. No matter how well you play, there is always someone who can beat you.
Harvey Penick
#20. In golf your strengths and weaknesses will always be there. If you could improve your weaknesses, you would improve your game. The irony is that people prefer to practice their strengths.
Harvey Penick
#21. Life is full of many minor annoyances, and few matters of real consequence.
Harvey Penick
#22. Golf tips are like aspirin. One may do you good, but if you swallow the whole bottle you will be lucky to survive.
Harvey Penick
#23. An event is never just what it is in itself and nothing more. It's what goes on around it, at the same time, that makes it - potentially - a tragic situation.
You have to have been exposed to this, at least once, to understand it.
Jacques Yonnet
#25. The causal dimensions, the planes of light, are happiness. They are all different and are all endless. They border the shores of nirvana, which is beyond discussion - a condition of perfection that cannot be expressed.
Frederick Lenz
#26. Golf has probably kept more people sane than psychiatrists have.
Harvey Penick
#27. All seasoned players know, or at least have felt, that when you are playing your best, you are much the same as in a state of meditation. You are free of tension and chatter. You are concentrating on one thing. It is the ideal condition for good golf.
Harvey Penick
#28. I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world.
Colum McCann
#29. If you want nothing, do what you want. If you want everything, develop discipline
Kostya Tszyu
#30. Bob Saget is the bear from the Golden Crisp box.
King Tuff
#31. It was thus, Archer reflected, that New York managed its transitions; conspiring to ignore them till they were well over, and then, in all good faith, imagining that they had taken place in a preceding age.
Edith Wharton
#32. My kids look actually happy. And I learned early on that perfectionism and parenthood is a toxic combination for everybody involved. In other words, so many things can flourish naturally. All you gotta do is make sure the soil's right. I view myself more like a guide than a ruler.
Dave Chappelle
#34. If you play poorly one day, forget it.
If you play poorly the next time out, review your fundamentals of grip, stance, aim and ball position. Most mistakes are made before the club is swung.
If you play poorly for a third time in a row, go see your professional.
Harvey Penick
#35. I don't consider 'American Rose' to be a biography so much as a microcosm of 20th-century America, told through Gypsy's tumultuous life - it's 'Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.'
Karen Abbott
#37. I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.
Norman O. Brown
#40. How can this 'I' be said to have any being other than as a pattern of movement in Heaven and Earth's unfolding union.
Douglas J. Penick
#41. A good putter is a match for anyone. A bad putter is a match for no one.
Harvey Penick
#42. Lessons are not to take the place of practice, but to make practice worthwhile.
Harvey Penick
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