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Top 25 Walter Hagen Quotes (2025 Update)

Walter Hagen Quote: “Don’t forget to stop and smell the roses.”

1. “Don’t forget to stop and smell the roses.”

— Walter Hagen

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Walter Hagen Quote: “No one remembers who came in second.”

2. “No one remembers who came in second.”

— Walter Hagen

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Walter Hagen Quote: “You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.”

3. “You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.”

— Walter Hagen

Walter Hagen Quote: “You don’t have the game you played last year or last week. You only have today’s game. It may be far from your best, but that’s all you’ve got. Harden your heart and make the best of it.”

4. “You don’t have the game you played last year or last week. You only have today’s game. It may be far from your best, but that’s all you’ve got. Harden your heart and make the best of it.”

— Walter Hagen

Walter Hagen Quote: “I never played a perfect 18 holes. There is no such thing. I expect to make at least seven mistakes a round. Therefore, when I make a bad shot, I don’t worry about it. It is just one of the seven.”

5. “I never played a perfect 18 holes. There is no such thing. I expect to make at least seven mistakes a round. Therefore, when I make a bad shot, I don’t worry about it. It is just one of the seven.”

— Walter Hagen

Walter Hagen Quote: “I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.”

6. “I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.”

— Walter Hagen

Walter Hagen Quote: “Which one of you is going to be runner-up?”

7. “Which one of you is going to be runner-up?”

— Walter Hagen

Walter Hagen Quote: “Every golfer can expect to have four bad shots in a round and when you do, just put them out of your mind. This, of course is hard to do when you’ve had them and you’re not even off the first tee.”

8. “Every golfer can expect to have four bad shots in a round and when you do, just put them out of your mind. This, of course is hard to do when you’ve had them and you’re not even off the first tee.”

— Walter Hagen

Walter Hagen Quote: “Give me a man with big hands and big feet and no brains and I’ll make a golfer out of him.”

9. “Give me a man with big hands and big feet and no brains and I’ll make a golfer out of him.”

— Walter Hagen

Walter Hagen Quote: “It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.”

10. “It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.”

— Walter Hagen

Walter Hagen Quote: “He may have gone to bed three hours ago, but he knows who he is playing. You can rest assured that he hasn’t slept a wink.”

11. “He may have gone to bed three hours ago, but he knows who he is playing. You can rest assured that he hasn’t slept a wink.”

— Walter Hagen

Walter Hagen Quote: “If you worry about the ones you missed, you are going to keep missing them.”

12. “If you worry about the ones you missed, you are going to keep missing them.”

— Walter Hagen

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

13. “I would rather be of clear mind and decision with the wrong club than with an unclear mind and the right club.”

— Walter Hagen

Walter Hagen Quote: “There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.”

14. “There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.”

— Walter Hagen

Walter Hagen Quote: “It takes six years to make a golfer: three to learn the game, then another three to unlearn all you have learned in the first three years. You might be a golfer when you arrive at that stage, but more likely you are just starting.”

15. “It takes six years to make a golfer: three to learn the game, then another three to unlearn all you have learned in the first three years. You might be a golfer when you arrive at that stage, but more likely you are just starting.”

— Walter Hagen

Walter Hagen Quote: “Hurry up Gene, I got a date tonight.”

16. “Hurry up Gene, I got a date tonight.”

— Walter Hagen

Walter Hagen Quote: “Here Eddie, hold the flag while I putt out.”

17. “Here Eddie, hold the flag while I putt out.”

— Walter Hagen

Walter Hagen Quote: “Whatever happens on the golf course is OK, because if I put the ball in trouble I know that I have the skills to get it out of trouble and back into play.”

18. “Whatever happens on the golf course is OK, because if I put the ball in trouble I know that I have the skills to get it out of trouble and back into play.”

— Walter Hagen

Walter Hagen Quote: “My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?”

19. “My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?”

— Walter Hagen

Walter Hagen Quote: “Trouble shots are surprisingly easy if you activate your imagination. You simply must be able to imagine exactly what flight the ball will take before you can play any shot well.”

20. “Trouble shots are surprisingly easy if you activate your imagination. You simply must be able to imagine exactly what flight the ball will take before you can play any shot well.”

— Walter Hagen

Walter Hagen Quote: “What a shame to waste those great shots on the practice tee.”

21. “What a shame to waste those great shots on the practice tee.”

— Walter Hagen

Walter Hagen Quote: “That’s the easiest 69 I ever made.”

22. “That’s the easiest 69 I ever made.”

— Walter Hagen

Walter Hagen Quote: “Why waste good shots in practice when you might need them in a match?”

23. “Why waste good shots in practice when you might need them in a match?”

— Walter Hagen

Walter Hagen Quote: “Miss a putt for $2,000? Not likely!”

24. “Miss a putt for $2,000? Not likely!”

— Walter Hagen

Walter Hagen Quote: “Short putts are missed because it is not physically possible to make the little ball travel over uncertain ground for three or four feet with any degree of regularity.”

25. “Short putts are missed because it is not physically possible to make the little ball travel over uncertain ground for three or four feet with any degree of regularity.”

— Walter Hagen

Walter Hagen Quote: “The course is playing the players instead of the players playing the course.”

26. “The course is playing the players instead of the players playing the course.”

— Walter Hagen

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