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Top 25 Harvey Penick Quotes (2025 Update)

Harvey Penick Quote: “Be yourself. Play within yourself. Play your own game.”

1. “Be yourself. Play within yourself. Play your own game.”

— Harvey Penick

Harvey Penick Quote: “If you play golf, you are my friend.”

2. “If you play golf, you are my friend.”

— Harvey Penick

Harvey Penick Quote: “Be brave if you lose and meek if you win.”

3. “Be brave if you lose and meek if you win.”

— Harvey Penick

Harvey Penick Quote: “Golf tips are like aspirin. One may do you good, but if you swallow the whole bottle you will be lucky to survive.”

4. “Golf tips are like aspirin. One may do you good, but if you swallow the whole bottle you will be lucky to survive.”

— Harvey Penick

Harvey Penick Quote: “In golf your strengths and weaknesses will always be there. If you could improve your weaknesses, you would improve your game. The irony is that people prefer to practice their strengths.”

5. “In golf your strengths and weaknesses will always be there. If you could improve your weaknesses, you would improve your game. The irony is that people prefer to practice their strengths.”

— Harvey Penick

Harvey Penick Quote: “Life is full of many minor annoyances, and few matters of real consequence.”

6. “Life is full of many minor annoyances, and few matters of real consequence.”

— Harvey Penick

Harvey Penick Quote: “I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches.”

7. “I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches.”

— Harvey Penick

Harvey Penick Quote: “I don’t care how good you play, you can find somebody who can beat you, and I don’t care how bad you play, you can find somebody you can beat.”

8. “I don’t care how good you play, you can find somebody who can beat you, and I don’t care how bad you play, you can find somebody you can beat.”

— Harvey Penick

Harvey Penick Quote: “In my opinion, no young player can develop his or her game to its highest potential if he or she rides around the course in a golf cart.”

9. “In my opinion, no young player can develop his or her game to its highest potential if he or she rides around the course in a golf cart.”

— Harvey Penick

Harvey Penick Quote: “A golfer rarely needs to hit a spectacular shot until the one that preceded it was pretty bad.”

10. “A golfer rarely needs to hit a spectacular shot until the one that preceded it was pretty bad.”

— Harvey Penick

Harvey Penick Quote: “I see things written about the golf swing that I can’t believe will work except by accident .”

11. “I see things written about the golf swing that I can’t believe will work except by accident .”

— Harvey Penick

Harvey Penick Quote: “A good putter is a match for anyone. A bad putter is a match for no one.”

12. “A good putter is a match for anyone. A bad putter is a match for no one.”

— Harvey Penick

Harvey Penick Quote: “Lessons are not to take the place of practice, but to make practice worthwhile.”

13. “Lessons are not to take the place of practice, but to make practice worthwhile.”

— Harvey Penick

Harvey Penick Quote: “The woods are full of long drivers.”

14. “The woods are full of long drivers.”

— Harvey Penick

Harvey Penick Quote: “A pretty girl will always have the toughest time learning to play golf, because every man wants to give her lessons.”

15. “A pretty girl will always have the toughest time learning to play golf, because every man wants to give her lessons.”

— Harvey Penick

Harvey Penick Quote: “Golf has probably kept more people sane than psychiatrists have.”

16. “Golf has probably kept more people sane than psychiatrists have.”

— Harvey Penick

Harvey Penick Quote: “No matter how poorly you play, there is always someone you can beat. No matter how well you play, there is always someone who can beat you.”

17. “No matter how poorly you play, there is always someone you can beat. No matter how well you play, there is always someone who can beat you.”

— Harvey Penick

Harvey Penick Quote: “All seasoned players know, or at least have felt, that when you are playing your best, you are much the same as in a state of meditation. You are free of tension and chatter. You are concentrating on one thing. It is the ideal condition for good golf.”

18. “All seasoned players know, or at least have felt, that when you are playing your best, you are much the same as in a state of meditation. You are free of tension and chatter. You are concentrating on one thing. It is the ideal condition for good golf.”

— Harvey Penick

Harvey Penick Quote: “Go out and have fun. Golf is a game for everyone, not just for the talented few.”

19. “Go out and have fun. Golf is a game for everyone, not just for the talented few.”

— Harvey Penick

Harvey Penick Quote: “Looking up is the biggest alibi ever invented to explain a terrible shot. By the time you look up, you’ve already made the mistake.”

20. “Looking up is the biggest alibi ever invented to explain a terrible shot. By the time you look up, you’ve already made the mistake.”

— Harvey Penick

Harvey Penick Quote: “Make a game out of practice, you’re still a child at heart.”

21. “Make a game out of practice, you’re still a child at heart.”

— Harvey Penick

Harvey Penick Quote: “You don’t lose your swing between the ninth green and the tenth tee, and you don’t lose your swing from one day to the next. If you think you do, something is going on that you don’t understand. A diary might help explain it to you.”

22. “You don’t lose your swing between the ninth green and the tenth tee, and you don’t lose your swing from one day to the next. If you think you do, something is going on that you don’t understand. A diary might help explain it to you.”

— Harvey Penick

Harvey Penick Quote: “I compare the pressure of a golf shot with making an extra point in basketball. The player starts from a full stop, and that rim doesn’t move.”

23. “I compare the pressure of a golf shot with making an extra point in basketball. The player starts from a full stop, and that rim doesn’t move.”

— Harvey Penick

Harvey Penick Quote: “The cup is only one inch wide for a putt that is struck too hard. The cup is four inches wide for a ball that dies at the hole.”

24. “The cup is only one inch wide for a putt that is struck too hard. The cup is four inches wide for a ball that dies at the hole.”

— Harvey Penick

Harvey Penick Quote: “Never try a shot you haven’t practised.”

25. “Never try a shot you haven’t practised.”

— Harvey Penick

Harvey Penick Quote: “You have heard it from me many times by now, but I will say it again – to start your downswing, let your weight shift to your left foot while bringing your right elbow back down to your body. This.”

26. “You have heard it from me many times by now, but I will say it again – to start your downswing, let your weight shift to your left foot while bringing your right elbow back down to your body. This.”

— Harvey Penick

Harvey Penick Quote: “Just as I do, Bill was always telling pupils to relax their elbows, since the elbow is the most important joint we have in the movement of the golf swing. Bill and I were in total agreement that the attempt to keep a straight left arm means ruination for most golfers.”

27. “Just as I do, Bill was always telling pupils to relax their elbows, since the elbow is the most important joint we have in the movement of the golf swing. Bill and I were in total agreement that the attempt to keep a straight left arm means ruination for most golfers.”

— Harvey Penick

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