Short Game Quotes

#1. I'm much better off the tee. I'm not a great putter. I do not have a good short game.

Molly Sims

#2. I am very pleased with my synthetic golf green from Southwest Greens. It reacts like a championship golf green, so I can practice my short game whenever I'm at home. I couldn't believe that a synthetic green could be this perfect.

Matteo Manassero

#3. The difference between now and when I played during my younger days is my drives are shorter and my short game is longer.

Simon Hobday

#4. The most important thing is not that my short game looks good, but that it feels good, because at the end of the day, what you need is to feel it, and I'm starting to feel it.

Sergio Garcia

#5. I never wanted to play the short game.

Michael Keaton

#6. Bob Hope has a beautiful short game. Unfortunately, it's off the tee.

Jimmy Demaret

#7. There is more to the game than hitting it far. There are ways to make birdies other than hitting 350-yard drives. I pride myself on a good short game; I work very hard at it.

Luke Donald

#8. Practice, work out, proper nutrition, lots of work on my short game. In golf, that's really where the strokes come off the scorecard.

Paula Creamer

#9. My short game's not that good. It just becomes a matter of getting that weight moving.

Ozzie Smith

#10. I like to address all parts of my game, but I'm really concentrating a lot of time with my coach, David Whelan, on my short game and on the greens.

Paula Creamer

#11. I think my putting could be better, my short game.

Deron Williams

#12. I have worked hard to improve my consistency in my driving, irons, short game, and putting.

Natalie Gulbis

#13. Brushing up on your short game at the practice area is fine and good, but taking it with you to the golf course - when your score is really on the line - is another story.

Ernie Els

#14. He played the long game as if he was playing the short game, looking to entertain the crowd and paying absolutely no heed to the calibre of the attack, the state of the pitch or even the situation of the match.

David Mutton

#15. The only way to win tournaments is with the short game. Over half your shots out here are within 30 or 40 yards. Ballstriking is where I'm trying to improve, yes, but more to eliminate big numbers than make birdies.

Phil Mickelson

#16. Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble.

Pete Sampras

#17. Some players like to change clubs around the green to hit high or low shots. I play all of my short-game shots with my 54-degree sand wedge and change my ball position to hit it higher or lower. I think it's easier to learn one club than four.

Ernie Els

#18. Life is a game. In order to have a game, something has to be more important than something else. If what already is, is more important than what isn't, the game is over. So, life is a game in which what isn't, is more important than what is. Let the good times roll.

Werner Erhard

#19. If your opponent is short (on time), play just as you played earlier in the game. If you are short keep calm, I repeat, don't get flustered. Keep up the same neat writing of the moves, the same methodical examination of variations, but at a quicker rate.

Alexander Kotov

#20. After 'Punk'd,' my company Katalyst did a deal with AOL to produce short-form content for the Web. At that time it was a different game. If you got front-page coverage on any popular website, you could probably get a push.

Ashton Kutcher

#21. While being in the right seat at the right game might create short-term reassurance, I can't get over the idea that really what people feel is that their club is being run by a group of guys who know the history, study the heritage and view Villa as a proud Victorian club in its third century.

Randy Lerner

#22. I used to game a lot, you know, back in the day. My gaming time done got so short that my skills ain't where they need to be to be online, you know what I'm saying? I just got that Xbox One. I gotta get my skills back, up the par to call myself a gamer.

Ice Cube

#23. He read reports, examined evidence, and poured more reports up the chain than the Pentagon could read. Nothing short of a human sieve. But in the end he was just one small piece on this game board called war. End of story

Ted Dekker

#24. Con" is short for "confidence game" or "confidence trick." The term comes from the idea that you gain someone's confidence in order to take advantage of them.

Jason Mosberg

#25. I like to keep myself physically and mentally fit before any important match. I usually take a short nap just before the game and do not practice immediately before the tournament.

Viswanathan Anand

#26. Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game

Nigel Short

#27. You need a fantastic memory in this game to remember the great shots and a very short memory to forget the bad ones.

Mac O'Grady

#28. Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a bad thing.

Bill Buckner

#29. You can game the social media in the short run, but not for long.

Seth Godin

#30. I wait, you play. You speak, I cave. I promise, you break. You game me, daily, you play me.

Coco J. Ginger

#31. When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best decision, to make an incrediable self-image is the best.

Deyth Banger

#32. Don't rush life, becuase its too short! Live in the moment your in now! Smile!

Victoria Mone't

#33. Few people get to earn a living at what they like to do and there are hazards in any profession. Football is something I was made for. I gave the game all I could for as long as I could. I guess my only regret was that my career was too short.

Dick Butkus

#34. Life's too short to sit on the bench, so get in there and pitch the game.

Victoria Schwimley

#35. What happens to people who try to poison a wizard, at least in the short run, is that they have an advantage in a game of football.

Terry Pratchett

#36. Sometimes, in a tight game with runners on, digging in at short, ready to break with the ball, a peace I'd never felt before would paralyze the diamond. For a moment of eternal stillness I felt as if I were cocked at the very heart of the Midwest.

Stuart Dybek

#37. My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to relax.

Susan Hayward

#38. Oh, I don't know about that, Jericho. See, when it comes to the bedroom, The Game always came up a little bit ... short.

Stephanie McMahon

#39. I uttered his name like a silent whisper of the falling rain - saying love is his game as the cool breeze sets in.- Elizabeth's Shorter Poems

Elizabeth E. Castillo

#40. I'm glad people see some of the stories that way. I see where they're coming from, although none of the stories are specifically intended to arouse. There is a gender divide on the short story "The Girlfriend Game" - women seem to consider it "sexy" but men usually find it uncomfortable.

Nick Antosca

#41. I have nothing I want to ask you, and if I did, you would probably lie anyway."
"I'm drunk. Drunk people tell the truth."
"Like hell they do. Besides you're not that drunk."
"Then dare me something."
I snorted. "No, because I'm not that drunk, or stupid.

Elizabeth Morgan

#42. His lips turned upward. Man told you to lick salt off me, but he didn't say where you would be licking the salt from.

Elizabeth Morgan

#43. it did not so much judge the quality of a trader's performance as encourage him to game the system by working for short-term profits at the expense of possible blowups - like

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#44. Life is too short for chess.

Lord Byron

#45. Chess is, in essence, a game for children. Computers have exacerbated the trends towards youth because they now have an immensely powerful tool at their disposal and can absorb vast amounts of information extremely quickly.

Nigel Short

#46. Online games for data-mining have a short virtual shelf life. People get bored, especially if the game seems stagnant.

Peter Diamandis

#47. Your graciousness is what carries you. It isn't how old you are, how young you are, how beautiful you are, or how short your skirt is. What it is, is what comes out of your heart. If you are gracious, you have won the game.

Stevie Nicks

#48. Fashion as we used to know it doesn't exist. The dress as we know it today-it's dead. The dress has become so short it's really a tunic worn with leggings ... Fashion is fantasy, it's a child's game ... Now I'm going to be this, and then I'm going to be something else.

Rudi Gernreich

#49. If you're an American reader, you can love short stories the way other Americans love baseball; this is our game, people! We have more than two hundred years of know-how and knack, of creativity.

Amy Bloom

#50. A lot of times when I was short, I would create a level of activity beforehand that would drive the futures ... It's a fun game,

Jim Cramer

#51. I've been writing since I was sixteen. At first, I wrote mostly short stories and poetry. The first thing I ever had published was a poem about a football game. It was printed in my local newspaper.

Jerry Spinelli

#52. Much of anyone's game is played (or should be played) in the short six-inch course between the ears.

Louise Suggs

#53. All of those guys who told me that I was too short and how complicated the game was, it is not that complicated. It is the same game I have always played.

Doug Flutie

#54. If I wasn't in the rap game,
I'd probably have a key knee-deep in the crack game.
Because the streets is a short stop:
Either you're slinging crack rock or you got a wicked jump shot.

The Notorious B.I.G.

#55. You have to have short-term memory. You have to be able to move on to the next practice, the next game, turn the page and keep your emotions so you make the decisions that are best for your group.

Randy Carlyle

#56. The only groups I willingly joined were spontaneous, short-lived, and usually game-playing.

Meredith Marple

#57. I can evaluate a player in a very short period of time because I'm very close to that game, very educated in that game and played the game for a long, long time. I wasn't just a guy with talent. I learned a lot about the game.

Kurt Russell

#58. ...So to be fast to don't be long and to try to be short... If you want to play the best game, create it - make the rules, make what they will do... That's how I do it. I make people to play my games and then often loooose!

Deyth Banger

#59. It is so easy to get sucked into the if-only game, and playing it is a short and slippery slide into despair.

Wm. Paul Young

#60. Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end.

James Altucher

#61. Speculation is a fool's game, but I've seen many political projections that look like the Taliban could hold most of the country, and possibly Kabul, within perhaps a short time.

Eliza Griswold

#62. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behaviour not otherwise excusable.

A.P. Herbert

#63. I know that failing - coming up short - is part of the game and I have accepted that .I don't like it, but I have accpted it .God willing , I live to fight another day, NEXT YEAR..

Jon-Robert Holden

#64. Don't rush life, because its too short! Live in the moment your in now!

Victoria Mone't

#65. A rival may raise your game in the short-term. An Ally will raise your game for the long-term.

Morag Barrett

#66. Because golf exposes the flaws of the human swing - a basically simple maneuver - it causes more self-torture than any game short of Russian roulette.

Grantland Rice