Gary Player famous quotes

It's a marriage. If I had to choose between my wife and my putter, well, I'd miss her.
-- Gary Player

#Golf #Wife #Missing

When you play the game for fun, it's fun. When you play it for a living, it's a game of sorrows.
-- Gary Player

#Fun #Golf #Games

We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
-- Gary Player

#Winning #Reality #Success Or Failure

You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.
-- Gary Player

#Golf #Natural #Golfers

Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.
-- Gary Player

#Golf #Years #Games

Simply by making the effort to start something, you will be miles ahead of almost everyone else.
-- Gary Player

#Effort #Miles

The harder you work, the luckier you get.
-- Gary Player

#Inspirational #Motivational #Work

The closer you can live to being a vegetarian the better.
-- Gary Player

#Vegetarian

When a rules man gives you a ruling, that’s it. Amen.
-- Gary Player

#Men #Giving #Amen

If you are going to keep company with me, don't embarrass me.
-- Gary Player

#Company

The ideal build for a golfer would be strong hands, big forearms, thin neck, big thighs and a flat chest. He'd look like Popeye.
-- Gary Player

#Strong #Golf #Hands

I am tired of all these golfers who are happy with second place. The only one who will like you if you come in second place is your wife and your dog. And that is only if you have a good wife and a good dog.
-- Gary Player

#Dog #Tired #Golf

I try to work with God as a partner.
-- Gary Player

#Golf #Trying #Partners

There is absolutely nothing humorous at the Masters. Here, small dogs do not bark and babies do not cry.
-- Gary Player

#Dog #Baby #Humorous

To succeed in life one must have determination and must be prepared to suffer during the process. If one isn't prepared to suffer during adversities, I don't really see how he can be successful.
-- Gary Player

#Determination #Adversity #Successful

Perhaps the most important thing I can tell you about equipment is to experiment and keep an open mind.
-- Gary Player

#Golf #Mind #Important

I got so strong I felt like a giant.....When I stood on the tee with Arnold and Jack, I was tiny compared to them. But I never believed they were bigger than me. So the mind is so fascinating.
-- Gary Player

#Strong #Golf #Mind

You can always speak with great authority on how well you played today, but never on how you'll play tomorrow.
-- Gary Player

#Golf #Play #Today

I wish I could put a patent on that thing. That was so straight I had to lean over sideways to see the flag!
-- Gary Player

#Wish #Patents #Flags

The player who expects a lesson to 'take' without subsequent practice just isn't being honest with himself or fair to his professional.
-- Gary Player

#Player #Practice #Lessons

The pressure gets worse the older you get. The hole starts to look the size of a Bayer aspirin.
-- Gary Player

#Looks #Aspirin #Pressure

Enjoy the game. Happy golf is good golf.
-- Gary Player

#Golf #Games #Enjoy

The more I work and practice, the luckier I seem to get.
-- Gary Player

#Education #Practice #Mathematics

Golf is a puzzle without an answer.
-- Gary Player

#Golf #Answers #Puzzles

A strong mind is one of the key components that separates the great from the good.
-- Gary Player

#Strong #Golf #Keys

Everyone wants to be known as a great striker of the ball for some reason. Nobody wants to be called a lucky, one-putting s.o.b.
-- Gary Player

#Golf #Lucky #Balls

I've traveled more than any human being who's ever lived.
-- Gary Player

#Humans

If you think your hands are more important in your golf swing than your legs, try walking a hole on your hands.
-- Gary Player

#Golf #Thinking #Swings

I've studied golf for almost 50 years now and know a hell of a lot about nothing.
-- Gary Player

#Golf #Years #Hell

If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.
-- Gary Player

#Golf #Heaven #Want

That loss was to breed an independence, a toughness of spirit, and an awareness of adversity and discipline that have never left me,.
-- Gary Player

#Adversity #Loss #Discipline

Each shot is important.
-- Gary Player

#Important #Shots

Golf asks something of a man. It makes one loathe mediocrity. It seems to say, "If you are going to keep company with me, don't embarrass me.
-- Gary Player

#Golf #Men #Mediocrity

I always said that if they have a golf course like this in heaven, I want to be the head pro.
-- Gary Player

#Golf #Heaven #Want

The more I practise, the luckier I become
-- Gary Player

The first time I ever saw Arnold Palmer, I said, There's a star. The first time I saw Jack Nicklaus, I said, Superstar. I feel the same way about Tiger Woods.
-- Gary Player

#Sports #Stars #Way