Golf/Trading Quotes

Yesterday night I was reading huge list of quotes about golf. After reading them I realized that if you substituted the word trading for every time the word golf appears in these quotes, that the same statements would hold true.

  • Golf [Trading] is about how well you accept, respond to, and score with your misses much more so than it is a game of your perfect shots.” – Dr. Bob Rotella

  • “One of the most fascinating things about golf [trading] is how it reflects the cycle of life. No matter what you shoot – the next day you have to go back to the first tee and begin all over again and make yourself into something.” – Peter Jacobsen

  • “No-one will ever have golf [trading] under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why golf [trading] is the greatest of games.” – Bobby Jones

  • “Golf [Trading] 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

  • “Golf [Trading] is not a game of great shots. It’s a game of most accurate misses. The people who win make the smallest mistakes.” – Gene Littler

  • “Golf [Trading] is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.” – Arnold Palmer

  • “The fundamental problem with golf [trading] is that every so often, no matter how lacking you may be in the essential virtues required of a steady player, the odds are that one day you will hit the ball straight, hard, and out of sight. This is the essential frustration of this excruciating sport. For when you’ve done it once, you make the fundamental error of asking yourself why you can’t do this all the time. The answer to this question is simple: the first time was a fluke.” – Colin Bowles

  • “Golf [Trading] is a difficult game, but it’s a little easier if you trust your instincts. It’s too hard a game to try to play like someone else.” – Nancy Lopez

  • “Golf [Trading] is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.” – Ben Hogan

  • “If there is one thing I have learned during my years as a professional, it is that the only thing constant about golf [trading] is its inconstancy.” – Jack Nicklaus

  • “Having a great golf [trading] swing helps under pressure, but golf [trading] is a game about scoring. It’s like an artist who can get a two-inch brush at Wal-Mart for 20 cents or a fine camel-hair brush from an art store for 20 dollars. The brush doesn’t matter – how the finished painting looks is what matters.” – Jerry Pate

  • “Golf [Trading] is a compromise between what your ego wants you to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.” – Bruce Crampton

  • “If you think golf [trading] is relaxing, you’re not playing it right.” – Bob Hope

  • “Golf [Trading] is a fascinating game. It has taken me nearly forty years to discover that I can’t play it.” – Ted Ray

  • “Golf [Trading] is not a wrestle with Bogey; it is not a struggle with your mortal foe; it is a physiological, psychological and moral fight with your self; it is a test of mastery over self; and the ultimate and irreducible element of the game is to determine which of the players is the more worthy combatant.” – Arnold Haultain

  • “Golf [Trading] is said to be an humbling game, but it is surprising how many people are either not aware of their weaknesses of else reckless of consequences.” – Bobby Jones

  • “Golf [Trading] is a game which brings out the peculiarities and idiosyncrasies of human nature. It permits no compromises, recognizes no weaknesses and punishes the foolhardy. Yet the apparent simplicity in hitting a small white ball from A to B lures all potential golfers [traders] into a false sense of security. Every instinct in the human psyche says the game looks easy, therefore it must be. That, for many of us, is where the trouble starts.” – A.J. Dalconen

  • “One reason golf [trading] is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after year with faults we had discovered and corrected time and again.” – Bobby Jones