Quotes About Golf Lessons

#1. During my last year of high school, I tried out for the varsity golf team. For about a year, I'd taken golf lessons from an old golf pro.

J.D. Vance

#2. I went and took golf lessons so Dad would let me play with him. I was just terrible ... but I was able to have a wonderful time just walking around with Dad. I can see the real pleasure of that game.

David Hyde Pierce

#3. It's a constant process of hoping you won't outgrow the ones you love, while fearing they'll leave you behind as they change. Sometimes it works out. Sometimes it doesn't.

Jeffrey Pierce

#4. There are no shortcuts on the quest for perfection.

Ben Hogan

#5. The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.

Vince Gill

#6. Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.

Elbert Hubbard

#7. I don't know what kind of swag I'd get if I were extra Irish. It would just be, like, extra potatoes. Or like a free pint of Guinness.

Saoirse Ronan

#8. There are so many lessons in life that can be learned through golf. I am not afraid to say that I am still learning some of them and probably will continue for some time.

Paula Creamer

#9. Summer I was 13, my grandfather and my father taught me how to play golf. I took lessons that summer, and I played every day that summer. I probably would've kept playing, except I realized that girls don't watch golf; they watch tennis. So I let my golf game go dormant and started playing tennis.

Thomas Gibson

#10. Golf was my first glimpse of comedy. I was a caddy when I was a kid. I was on the golf course rather than being in lessons, but I can play better now than I could then.

Bill Murray

#11. There are some good teachers out there, but the only one who is a genius at diagnosing my swing is my mom. She took up golf late, when she was 39, but in her younger days, she was an amazing athlete. She never read an instruction book or took lessons, but she has a remarkable eye for motion.

Boo Weekley

#12. I found golf late in life, in 1990. I took some lessons and struggled. Then one day, I hit a drive that was so crisp and clean, with no vibration. There's no feeling like it. I was hooked.

Dennis Quaid

#13. Perfection in any endeavor is an aiming point. Let the desire for it push you, but don't let the absence of it stop you.

Ralph Marston

#14. My instincts have never lies to me.

Tiger Woods

#15. My instincts have never lied to me.

Tiger Woods

#16. A pretty girl will always have the toughest time learning to play golf, because every man wants to give her lessons.

Harvey Penick

#17. You take lessons on how to better swing a golf club or a tennis racket, or to learn the proper techniques for shooting a basketball or throwing a curve ball, but what about running?

Danny Abshire

#18. It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide.

Charlie Hunnam

#19. The greatest single lesson to be learned from golf is mental discipline.

Louise Suggs

#20. When they [Democrats] running all these ads that are characterizing [Mitt] Romney as a rich, insensitive, out of touch, aloof nerd who loved having his dog on the roof of the station wagon, who didn't care when the wife of an employee dies with cancer.

Rush Limbaugh

#21. Lessons are not to take the place of practice, but to make practice worthwhile.

Harvey Penick

#22. I didn't really get into golf until I was about 14. My mom and dad were taking lessons from a pro an hour and a half from our farm in Cohuna, Australia. When they got home, I'd ask my mom to explain everything they learned - drills and all.

Stuart Appleby

#23. To hope is to wait for things to come to you. To dream is part of the process of setting goals and then striving to achieve them. You first must dream of doing things before you can do them.

Arnold Palmer

#24. I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl like barn swallows, I swing. There is a fruitless commotion of dust and rubber at my feet. "Smothered it," I say promptly. After enough lessons the terminology becomes second nature.

John Updike

#25. It's true that Paris is made up of equal parts of social conservatism and anarchic experimentation, but foreigners never quite know where to place the moral accent mark.

Edmund White

#26. Kids below 10 or 12, I think they just need to learn by playing at golf. Later on, in high school, when they develop muscles and everything, that's when they need to see about getting lessons.

Bubba Watson

#27. Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.

Salman Rushdie

#28. All conviction - and so, necessarily, conversion - is based on the motor and emotional aspects of the mind.

T. E. Hulme

#29. In nature nothing exists alone.

Rachel Carson

#30. At the end of your days, be leaning forwards, not falling backwards.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#31. What am I? What do I need, to overcome my fears?
I know the answer, of course I do: I need to deny them the power to control me. I need to know that I am stronger than they are.

Veronica Roth