"Golf is a percentage game, and I play the percentages."
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"It is the constant and undying hope for improvement that makes golf so exquisitely worth playing."
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"There's a saying that we use in golf: "I'd rather be lucky than good." Of course, to be lucky and good is the ideal. If you study hard, you can get good. And if you get lucky and get the proper parts for people to be able to appreciate what you're doing ... I'm sure there are many actors that are quite talented who have never been a success because they've never had the right opportunity and the right material. My mother used to think I had a guardian angel."
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"The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree."
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"Everybody can see that my swing is homegrown. That means everybody has a chance to do it."
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"I don't play the sport for fame. I don't try to win tournaments for fame. I don't do any of that. It's just me. I'm just Bubba. I goof around. I joke around. I just want to be me and play golf."
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"The hardest shot in golf is a mashie at 90 yards from the green, where the ball has to be played against an oak tree, bounces back into a sandtrap, hits a stone, bounces on the green and then rolls into the cup. That shot is so difficult I have made it only once."
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"Nobody ever heard Jack Nicklaus say "I don't know" about anything."
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"Pebble is a piece of sacred ground. They say it's the greatest meeting of land and water in the world. This course was heaven designed - just the way it fits on the land."
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"I did not see the sense in chasing a little white ball around a field."
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"No golfer ever gets so consistently good that he can't use some constructive advice. No matter how many trophies he may win, he can't analyze and remedy his own faults."
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"Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose"
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"This game is so elusive. You try to maintain the peaks and level up the valleys."
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"Golf is one of the few sports where a white man can dress like a black pimp and not look bad."
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"Every day I try to tell myself that this is going to be fun today. I try to put myself in a great frame of mind before I go out - then I screw it up with the first shot."
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"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."
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"Golf being a cold, calculating sort of game gives perhaps more scope for folly than any other. We have all the time in the world to make up our minds as to what is the wise thing to do and then we do the foolish one."
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"There are a lot of things in life way more important than money. All that said, some people do get confused. I play golf with a man who says, " What good is health? You can't buy money with it.""
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"Sam Snead did to the tee-shot what Roger Bannister did to the four-minute mile."
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"Golf is a lot like life. When you make a decision, stick with it."
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