Top 40 Walter Hagen Quotes
#1. The course is playing the players instead of the players playing the course.
Walter Hagen
#2. Trouble shots are surprisingly easy if you activate your imagination. You simply must be able to imagine exactly what flight the ball will take before you can play any shot well.
Walter Hagen
#3. That uncomfortable buzzing in your head is the hum of thought. I know the sensation must be quite unfamiliar.
Joe Hill
#5. You don't have the game you played last year or last week. You only have today's game. It may be far from your best, but that's all you've got. Harden your heart and make the best of it.
Walter Hagen
#6. The direction and rhythm of human progress do not depend on the masses, even when they add up to hundreds of millions; they depend on superior minorities.
Gonzalo Fernandez De La Mora
#7. He may have gone to bed three hours ago, but he knows who he is playing. You can rest assured that he hasn't slept a wink.
Walter Hagen
#8. Short putts are missed because it is not physically possible to make the little ball travel over uncertain ground for three or four feet with any degree of regularity.
Walter Hagen
#9. I would rather be of clear mind and decision with the wrong club than with an unclear mind and the right club.
Walter Hagen
#10. The United States has 4 percent of the world's population and 34 percent of its Nobel laureates.
Max Fisher
#11. Whatever happens on the golf course is OK, because if I put the ball in trouble I know that I have the skills to get it out of trouble and back into play.
Walter Hagen
#12. I do not think there should be a limit on the rig's liability, because they are sitting on top of unlimited amounts of oil, and thus, there could be an explosion occur that could do untold damage ... The amount of damage that an offshore oil rig can do is infinite.
John Chafee
#13. I don't want to make that sound like I'm preaching from a mountain top when I say you have to give your family everything, because I know it's hard for people. I'm lucky to be in a position where you can establish those ground rules and make it that way.
Tim McGraw
#15. Here Eddie, hold the flag while I putt out.
Walter Hagen
#16. Which one of you is going to be runner-up?
Walter Hagen
#17. The richest author that ever grazed the common of literature.
Samuel Johnson
#18. There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.
Walter Hagen
#19. If you worry about the ones you missed, you are going to keep missing them.
Walter Hagen
#20. Then I added a dash of salt, which counteracts the natural bitterness of coffee,
Linda Howard
#21. Figure it out. Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it, and there's nobody o live in it.
Arthur Miller
#22. Net neutrality is the idea that Internet service providers (ISPs) should treat all traffic that goes through their networks the same, not offering preferential treatment to some websites over others or charging some companies arbitrary fees to reach users.
Marvin Ammori
#23. My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
Walter Hagen
#24. I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.
Walter Hagen
#25. Give me a man with big hands and big feet and no brains and I'll make a golfer out of him.
Walter Hagen
#26. Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.
Walter Hagen
#28. The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.
Roger Babson
#29. I find broadcast intensely stressful, to the extent that perversely, I've never seen anything I've written actually broadcast on television. So, the audience response is something which I became aware of gradually.
Neil Cross
#30. I never played a perfect 18 holes. There is no such thing. I expect to make at least seven mistakes a round. Therefore, when I make a bad shot, I don't worry about it. It is just one of the seven.
Walter Hagen
#31. That's what's so wonderful about being in this business because you're constantly surprised. You have to be up for anything.
Blythe Danner
#32. It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
Walter Hagen
#34. It pleased the public to think I lived the easy, carefree life - the playboy of golf.
Walter Hagen
#35. You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
Walter Hagen
#36. What a shame to waste those great shots on the practice tee.
Walter Hagen
#37. He consorted with prostitutes and poets ... and with persons even worse.
Jorge Luis Borges
#38. Every golfer can expect to have four bad shots in a round and when you do, just put them out of your mind. This, of course is hard to do when you've had them and you're not even off the first tee.
Walter Hagen
#39. I don't want to be a millionaire; just live like one.
Walter Hagen
#40. Why waste good shots in practice when you might need them in a match?
Walter Hagen
