Eighteen holes of match or medal play will teach you more about your foe than will 18 years of dealing with him across a desk....Grantland Rice

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad....A.A. Milne

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive....Arnold Palmer

When I play my best golf, I feel as if I'm in a fog, standing back watching the earth in orbit with a golf club in my hands....Mickey Wright

I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. First I see the ball where I want it to finish, nice and white and sitting up high on the bright green grass. Then the scene quickly changes, and I see the ball going there: its path, trajectory, and shape, even its behavior on landing. Then there is a sort of fade-out, and the next scene shows me making the kind of swing that will turn the previous images into reality....Jack Nicklaus

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented....Arnold Palmer

On the Old Course at St. Andrews: This is the origin of the game, golf in its purest form, and it's still played that way on a course seemingly untouched by time. Every time I play here, it reminds me that this is still a game....Arnold Palmer 

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