Amy Alcott famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life not to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy.
-- Amy Alcott

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Concentrate, play your game, and don't be afraid to win.
-- Amy Alcott

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Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.
-- Amy Alcott

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Don't give advice unless you're asked.
-- Amy Alcott

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Golf isn't just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and putting into soup cans, out of the ivy and over rose bushes and hedges - the little Alcott Golf and Country Club. I just loved having a wedge in my hands.
-- Amy Alcott

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My parents didn't play golf.
-- Amy Alcott

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What makes a great golf course is continuity and variety: right-to-left holes, left-to-right holes.
-- Amy Alcott

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I don't think the philosophy really changes between men and women. I think golf courses need to become more distance-friendly overall. I think golf courses almost need to develop a more generic set of tees instead of calling them black, blue, red or whatever.
-- Amy Alcott

#Philosophy #Distance #Golf
You could argue that if the average golfer plays a golf course with 430-yard par 4s and they always miss the green, that's good practice. It's definitely great practice to play a course that's too long for you.
-- Amy Alcott

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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.
When you're doing something you're passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.
If you get to a point where something happens today to stress you out, take a breath & center your thoughts on peace. Ignored thoughts die.
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
The things that stress me out haven't changed. But I don't wanna lose anything. So I thought that at least I would change. I'm lucky...that I'm afraid of losing something.
He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success.
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.
I've come to realize that I perform best when I'm letting my subconscious mind hit the ball and my conscious mind is otherwise occupied.

Amy Alcott famous quotes

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