100 Country Clubs Quotes

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Famous Country Clubs Quotes

He sprang from the grass roots of the country clubs of America. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member. — Groucho Marx

In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play. — Bobby Jones

Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type. — Mark Twain

Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air. — Jack Benny

A lot of my buddies also played golf, but when it came to going to the beach or on the boat and chasing girls, they usually went that way and I went to the golf course. — Mike Weir

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. — Ernest Hemingway

To me, the most unhappy people in the world are the people ... in Palm Beach- Going to parties every night. Playing golf every afternoon, then bridge. [They have] no purpose. — Richard M. Nixon

On the weekends, I would go down and play these clubs in Key West or West Palm Beach or surrounding areas of Florida and then I'd go back to school for the week. — Carrot Top

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together. — Marcus Garvey

Nothing dissects a man in public quite like golf. — Brent Musburger

Golf is the most fun you can have with out taking your clothes off. — Chi Chi Rodriguez

Shoot eagles on the Jack Nicklaus course, Porsche with the triple exhaust, Seats soft like a midget's cough. — Action Bronson

When you're not part of a club, you have to find another way of surviving. — Mika

Golf is a game that needlessly prolongs the lives of some of our most useless citizens. — Bob Hope

Short Country Clubs Quotes

  • Sex and golf are the two things you can enjoy even if you're not good at them. — Kevin Costner
  • Having cancer gave me membership in an elite club I'd rather not belong to. — Gilda Radner
  • If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him. — Lou Holtz
  • I like to play snooker, golf as well. — John Terry
  • The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry. — Curt Flood
  • There was no club but the Hells Angels as far as I was concerned. — Chuck Zito
  • Golf is a good walk spoiled. — Mark Twain
  • My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs. — Eric Allin Cornell
  • Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at it. — Jimmy Demaret
  • Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English. — Jane Kaczmarek

Country Clubs Image Quotes

Country clubs quote Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

Country Club Quotes

Nicaragua is fast becoming a terrorist country club. - Edwin Meese

Nicaragua is fast becoming a terrorist country club. — Edwin Meese

Ronald Reagan gave our party a bowling alley image as opposed to a country club image. We were talking to people who go bowling on Thursday night, and they were understanding what we were saying. — Pete du Pont

We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I'm finally gonna die onstage, that's where it's going to be! — Alan Vega

Country clubs quote Love your country, but never trust its government.
Love your country, but never trust its government.

In all modesty, my summing up of 1955-6 and 1956-7 must be that no club in the country could live with Manchester United. — Matt Busby

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs. — Unknown

In your country club, your church, and business, about fifteen percent of the people are screwballs, lightweights, and boobs, and you would not want those people unrepresented in Congress. — Alan K. Simpson

Country clubs quote True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the countr
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Celtic, like Barcelona, are more than a football club. Our clubs are a symbol of a culture and community that has not always been made welcome in their respective countries. — Xavi

The struggle you see in the Republican Party today is the country club Republican versus the bowling alley Republican. Colin Powell brings us back to the country club image. He's an insider. He's a moderate. — Pete du Pont

You want to be free and break new ground, speak your mind, fear no man, have the neighbours acknowledge that you're a good man; and at the same time you want to be a success, make money, join the country club, get the votes and kick the other man in the teeth and off the ladder. — Christina Stead

All over the world today, not just in the totalitarian countries, assiduous functionaries in Ministries of Truth are clubbing history dumb and rendering language insensible. — E. L. Doctorow

Golf Clubs Quotes

My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch. — Lee Trevino

You don't know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two bucks in your pocket. — Lee Trevino

There are two things you can do with your head down - play golf and pray. — Lee Trevino

Country clubs quote The duty of a true patriot is to protect his country from government.
The duty of a true patriot is to protect his country from government.

Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money. — Lee Trevino

If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every business office, government agency, golf club and university faculty would yield its quota. — John W. Gardner

I would rather be of clear mind and decision with the wrong club than with an unclear mind and the right club. — Walter Hagen

Country clubs quote The duty of a true Patriot is to protect his country from its government.
The duty of a true Patriot is to protect his country from its government.

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death. — Sam Snead

Show me a golfer who doesn't have a mean streak, and I'll show you a weak competitor. — Lee Trevino

I expect to play golf until I am 90-even longer if anybody figures out a way to swing a club from a rocking chair. — Babe Didrikson Zaharias

We were all born with webbed feet and a golf club in our hand. — Old Tom Morris

Golf Course Quotes

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

You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules. — Bobby Jones

Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea. — Anne Sexton

Country clubs quote It seems to me that once if your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't tal
It seems to me that once if your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course — Bobby Jones

You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course. — Jello Biafra

It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it. — Jack Nicklaus

Country clubs quote Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.
Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.

You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about. — Bobby Jones

I never learned anything from a match that I won. — Bobby Jones

Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But such is certainly not the case. — Bobby Jones

In order to win, you must play your best golf when you need it most, and play your sloppy stuff when you can afford it. I shall not attempt to explain how you achieve this happy timing. — Bobby Jones

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More Country Clubs Quotes

It came from my mother. She was a singer, and literally every day of the week she sang at a different club in a different genre of music: country, R&B clubs, jazz clubs, church on Sunday morning where she was the music director, pop hits, soft rock. I grew up listening to all this music, so it was never one thing for me. — Robert Glasper

In my day, they were not interested in making boys happy. Those schools were made for the types of men who would become quite successful. It was brutal. They are not brutal today. They are country clubs today. — Louis Auchincloss

Everybody was waiting for Chelsea not to win every game and one day when we lose there will be a holiday in the country. But we are ready for that. — Jose Mourinho

Country music in the mid-'90s was a big influence on my career, and I played all the songs that are referenced in '94' back in my club days. Joe Diffie was rocking a sick mullet, and he was hotter than ever... just putting out monster hit after monster hit. It totally takes me back to those days, and it makes me smile every time I hear it. — Jason Aldean

Magic clubs have as much to do with magic as country clubs have with being in the country. — Theodore Annemann

The Democratic Party, all the candidates from Washington, they all know each other, they all move in the same circles, and what I'm doing is breaking into the country club. — Howard Dean

My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out. — Leigh Steinberg

If you, like me, lived through 1973-74 or even the early 1990s... There was a waiting list to get OUT of the country club - that's when you know things are tough. If you live long enough, you'll see it. — Charlie Munger

One day in 1959, when Huddersfield were playing Cardiff City, Tom (T.V.) Williams, who was then chairman of Liverpool, and Harry Latham, a director, came down the slope at Leeds Road to see me. Mr Williams said, 'How would you like to manage the best club in the country?' 'Why, is Matt Busby packing it up?' I asked. — Bill Shankly

Families aren't easy to join. They're like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant. — Erma Bombeck

My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're dealing with an institution that vast numbers of people have experienced: college, summer camp, the military, the country club. — Harold Ramis

You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on. — Harold Ramis

John Kerry has promised to take this country back from the wealthy. Who better than the guy worth $700 million to take the country back? See, he knows how the wealthy think. He can spy on them at his country club, at his place in Palm Beach, at his house in the Hamptons. He's like a mole for the working man. — Jay Leno

The minute you become a leader of a country, you go into a very small club. You join that sort of pantheon of other world leaders. — Peter Morgan

I'm a member of a country club, country music is what I love. — Travis Tritt

I just can't stop myself; I'm addicted to making you money. I should be spending all day in a country club or never getting out of my pajamas like Hugh Hefner. — Jim Cramer

Every Southerner, I think, knows people like Bill Clinton, maybe not quite as smart and maybe not quite as liberal, but kind of a glad-handing, country-club yuppie Southerner. The problem is we don't have labels for middle-class Southerners. — John Shelton Reed

You have to put all the criticism of this club down to jealousy. United have produced more players who have played for their country, more world-class players and more players who have won European Footballer of the Year than any other team in this country, so we must be doing something right. — Alex Ferguson

At the moment there are some England players who are the stars of their club teams, but not for their country. It's difficult to explain. — Diego Maradona

I would never join a country club with standards so low as to allow me as a member. — Groucho Marx

In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasnt like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it. — Lance Henriksen

I worked at a local country club that I never belonged to. I did random tasks in the pro shop and supposed to be in charge of the register, but that didn't go so well. They quickly realized I was better with people, not computers. — Shelley Hennig

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

We don't have any splits here. The players country is Liverpool Football Club and their language is football. — Gerard Houllier

It is hard to imagine that, having downgraded the US, S & P will not follow suit on at least one of the other members of the dwindling club of sovereign AAAs. If this were to materialise and involve a country like France, for example, it could complicate the already fragile efforts by Europe to rescue countries in its periphery. — Mohamed El-Erian

Fox News reported Thursday that Bill Clinton can't get into any of New York's better golf and country clubs. Not one member has been willing to sponsor him. So it's official, he really is America's first black president. — Argus Hamilton

You could see Newt Gingrich, who`s a member of Donald Trump`s country club, already getting together and talking about the new episode of "The Apprentice," with the poor kids in the city.This was a very smart thing to do. He shows that he is the grown-up in the Republican Party. — Chris Matthews

Right after liberal Democrats, the most dangerous politicians are country club Republicans. — Thomas Sowell

Journalists should think of themselves as outside the Establishment, and owners can't be too worried about what they're told at their country clubs. — Rupert Murdoch

One of my favorite things to do is play golf at Braemar Country Club. It's quiet and not overly crowded. The people are nice, and there's wildlife all around the course. As far as my game itself, I can go from a 10 handicap to a 30, depending on the day. — Scott Baio

The managers are getting paid very well by their respective clubs to do a job for their clubs not the country they are working in. — Alan Shearer

The Church has never changed its teaching on the sanctity of human life - it didn't make up a rule for the convenience of a particular time like a rule at a country club as the Governor would have us believe. — Wellington Mara

Singing is not indulged in by Rotary clubs of some countries and all clubs are given full privilege to do as they please about including it in their programs. — Paul Harris

Then we did what we called basically I suppose a club tour in England, which was the time I think that our second album came out, we club toured around the whole country where the venues were hold to five hundreds upwards to that sort of thing you know. — John Deacon

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