52 Bogey Quotes

Following is our list of the most famous bogey quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational bogey quotes. Hopefully, these bogey quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your bogey knowledge!

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Famous Bogey Quotes

Golf's three ugliest words: still your shot. — Dave Marr

The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He's a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too. — Bobby Jones

Golf is a good walk spoiled. — Mark Twain

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. - Jack Lemmon

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. — Jack Lemmon

Nothing goes down slower than a golf handicap. — Bobby Nichols

They say I get into too many bunkers. But is no problem. I am the best bunker player. — Seve Ballesteros

Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt. — Sam Snead

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

One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green. - John Gunther

One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green. — John Gunther

Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around. — Rick Reilly

Only bad golfers are lucky. They're the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky. — Lee Trevino

Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies. — Bobby Jones

Forget your opponents; always play against par. - Sam Snead

Forget your opponents; always play against par. — Sam Snead

Never concede the putt that beats you. — Harry Vardon

After all these years, it's still embarrassing for me to play on the American golf tour. Like the time I asked my caddie for a sand wedge and he came back ten minutes later with a ham on rye. — Chi Chi Rodriguez

Short Bogey Quotes

  • The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man. — Pat Paulsen
  • A winkle is just a bogey with a crash helmet on. — Mick Miller
  • I pick my nose and I'm not ashamed to admit it. If there's a bogey then just pick it, man. — Justin Timberlake
  • Bad Sausage and five bogeys will give you a stomach ache every time. — Miller Barber
  • Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey. — C. S. Lewis
  • At the U.S. Open, you're going to make bogeys. — David Duval
  • All my life, I've been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I've come is a bogey. — Lou Holtz

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More Bogey Quotes

Civilized people can talk about anything. For them no subject is taboo.... In civilized societies there will be no intellectual bogeys at sight of which great grownup babies are expected to hide their eyes. — Clive Bell

Yeah, size is no guarantee of power,” said George. “Look at Ginny.” “What d’you mean?” said Harry. “You’ve never been on the receiving end of one of her Bat-Bogey Hexes, have you? — J. K. Rowling

If you worry about making bogeys, it makes the game that much more difficult. You put more pressure on yourself without even noticing it. It makes a difference to take it easy when things aren't going right. — Sergio Garcia

There isn't a hole out there [Augusta] that can't be birdied if you just think. But there isn't one that can't be double-bogeyed if you stop thinking. — Bobby Jones

Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

All the old bogeys of 'dignified subject-matter,' of 'balanced compositions,' of 'correct drawing' were laid to rest. The artist was responsible to no one but his own sensibilities for what he painted and how he painted it. — Ernst Gombrich

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. — Aleister Crowley

Golf is not a wrestle with Bogey; it is not a struggle with your mortal foe; it is a physiological, psychological and moral fight with your self; it is a test of mastery over self; and the ultimate and irreducible element of the game is to determine which of the players is the more worthy combatant. — Arnold Haultain

It is significant that people who refuse to tell their children fairytales do not fear that the children will believe in princes and princesses, but that they will believe in witches and bogeys. — Susanne Katherina Langer

I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle. — Peter Scott

All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood. — Maya Angelou

If I make a double bogey, the fans on whatever hole better watch out; I might throw it. I might throw it at them. — Stephen Curry

It's always the thing when you're shooting out and about with real people and you could get a couple of bogeys like sticking their face in front of the camera, like 'Hey!' — Joel Kinnaman

It is easy to turn a scooter, but not a train with 40 bogeys. This is such a big country, changes are constant and widespread. — Narendra Modi

The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved. — Rebecca West

As every golfer knows, no one ever lost his mind over one shot. It is rather the gradual process of shot after shot watching your score go to tatters - knowing that you have found a different way to bogey each hole. — Thomas Boswell

If golfers can run around and crow when they make a birdie, I think it would be just as proper to lie down on the green and cry when you make a bogey. — J. C. Snead

There are more bogeys in the last nine holes of the U.S. Open than in any other tournament in God's creation. — Ray Floyd

If I make a bogey or three putt I'm on fire inside. But it's not like you're going to play any better slamming your club or getting angry. So you might as well just keep it in. People say I'm pretty calm, but I do make mistakes and I do get angry, but I try and not show it. — Lydia Ko

War seems to me to be a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an abominable business. And yet so high, in spite of everything, is my opinion of the human race that I believe this bogey would have disappeared long ago, had the sound sense of the nations not been systematically corrupted by commercial and political interests acting through the schools and the Press — Albert Einstein

Losing Bogey was horrible, obviously. Because he was young. And because he gave me my life. I wouldn't have had a - I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't met him. I would have had a completely different kind of life. He changed me, he gave me everything. And he was an extraordinary man. — Lauren Bacall

The thing I was most proud of about today's round was that on this course everybody is going to make mistakes, but sometimes it's hard to forget about it and let it go. After I made a double on 1, I was able to be patient and let it go and came back with birdies on 3 and 5. When I bogeyed 6, I was able to let it go and come back with a birdie on 8. I was able to let go of some bad shots and forget about it and move on. — Phil Mickelson

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