Quotes About Patience

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

During the winter, you head out into the darkness for a run. When spring comes, and the first crocus pokes up its head...you know it was worthwhile.

If I can slow it down in my mind, things will be fine.

Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.

To finish first, you must first finish.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

It is impossible to grow weary of a sport that is never the same on any two days of the year.

What you have to remember is that baseball isn't a week or a month but a season - and a season is a long time.

Golf isn't like other sports where you can take a player out if he's having a bad day. You have to play the whole game.

There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.

The game isn't over till it's over.

In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.

Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots.

We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can lead.

You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered.

I always believe there's a reason why you go through everything.

The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.

What's the difference between a three-week-old puppy and a sportswriter? In six weeks, the puppy stops whining.

Don't talk too much or too soon.

When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand.

No one has as much luck around the greens as one who practices a lot.

The game isn't over till the clock says zero.