Julius Boros Quotes

Because my lower body is quiet, I need a full shoulder turn to generate power and speed. Keep your tempo smooth, and with the quiet lower body, you don't have to worry about losing your balance.

I see things written about the golf swing that I can't believe will work except by accident .

The only thing you should force in a golf swing is the club back in the bag.

I think the golf swing is all about rotation, all about trying to keep the club on plane.

I don't believe there is anything like a natural golf swing. A golf swing is an unnatural thing, and it has to be developed.

"My swing is too fast" may be the biggest misconception ever. Think about it. If you take a fast, lousy swing and slow it down, all you've got left is a slow, lousy swing. Most people swing too slow, not too fast.

Swing hard in case you hit it.

It's about hitting the ball in the center of the club face and hitting it hard.

The difficulty is, all swing thoughts decay, like radium. What burnt up the course on Wednesday has turned to lead on Sunday. Yet it does not do to have a blank mind: the terrible hugeness of the course will rush into the vacuum and the ball will spray like a thing berserk.

I've heard people say my swing's not perfect, and I know that. But golf's a natural sport, very sensitive. It's played a lot by feel. I don't care if my swing is too flat. If it works, I don't have to change it.

The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.

Who can say I have a bad swing? The only thing that matters in golf is the score you put on the board. You don't have to look pretty out there, you have to win. Look at my record and tell me who has a better swing than mine.

Coming up through high school, coaches would tell me not to swing so hard. It's the only way I know. It just happens.

Although practice swings Can be helpful things, Twere better, indeed, not take any Than to fiddle and fret And before playing get Exhausted from taking too many.

I still swing the way I used to, but when I look up the ball is going in a different direction.

A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course.

When I swing at a golf ball right, my mind is blank and my body is loose as a goose.

To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and subtle series of highly unnatural movements, involving about sixty-four muscles, that result in a seemingly natural swing, taking two seconds to begin and end.

Keeping the head still is golf's one universal, unarguable fundamental.

The one unbreakable rule about hitting is this: if a batter hits well with his own particular stance and swing, think twice - or more - before suggesting a change.

There was clearly great charm and worth in a sport so quaintly perverse in its basic instructions. Hit down to make the ball rise. Swing easy to make it go far. Finish high to make it go straight.

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

A golf ball is like a clock. Always hit it at 6 o'clock and make it go toward 12 o'clock. But make sure you're in the same time zone.

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

I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl like barn swallows, I swing. There is a fruitless commotion of dust and rubber at my feet. "Smothered it," I say promptly. After enough lessons the terminology becomes second nature.