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  • #1
    G.K. Chesterton
    “I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.”
    G.K. Chesterton
    tags: golf

  • #2
    Dave Barry
    “Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.”
    Dave Barry

  • #3
    Tiger Woods
    “Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.”
    Tiger Woods

  • #4
    Hank Aaron
    “It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.”
    Hank Aaron

  • #5
    James Ross
    “Stay true to yourself and listen to your inner voice. It will lead you to your dream.”
    James Ross

  • #6
    Lorii Myers
    “Sometimes not getting what you want is a brilliant stroke of luck.”
    Lorii Myers, Make It Happen, A Healthy, Competitive Approach to Achieving Personal Success

  • #7
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “To find a man's true character, play golf with him. ”
    P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: golf

  • #8
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #9
    Alice  Cooper
    “Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.”
    Alice Cooper

  • #10
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.”
    P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: golf

  • #11
    Dean Martin
    “If you drink, don’t drive. Don’t even putt.”
    Dean Martin

  • #12
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows. ”
    P.G. Wodehouse

  • #13
    George W. Bush
    “I call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers. Thank you. Now watch this drive.”
    George W. Bush

  • #14
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “Golf, like measles, should be caught young.”
    Wodehouse
    tags: golf

  • #15
    Gerald R. Ford
    “I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.”
    Gerald Ford

  • #16
    Lorii Myers
    “The value of routine; trusting your swing.”
    Lorii Myers, Make It Happen, A Healthy, Competitive Approach to Achieving Personal Success

  • #17
    James Barrett Reston
    “Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins.”
    James Barrett Reston, Uncle Anthony's Unabridged Analogies: Quotes and Proverbs for Lawyers and Lecturers

  • #18
    Ewan McGregor
    “I started watching golf for the first time yesterday. I`m really worried about myself. I was actually enjoying it.”
    Ewan McGregor

  • #19
    Mike Bove
    “The good characters in my book are loosely based on folks I know. All the bad stuff is made up.”
    Mike Bove, Willowtree A Bruce DelReno Mystery

  • #20
    Shawn Klomparens
    “These golf people seem unnaturally obsessed. They dress kind of funny too, and it's become a running joke for Gretchen and I to e-mail the most ridiculous golfing pictures back and forth to each other. Sometimes she adds hysterical captions. She never puts them on PitchBitch, though. We can't threaten the gravy train.”
    Shawn Klomparens, Jessica Z.

  • #21
    Christopher Hitchens
    “The President is also captured in a well-worn TV news clip, making a boilerplate response to a question on terrorism and then asking the reporters to watch his drive. Well, that's what you get if you catch the President on a golf course. If Eisenhower had done this, as he often did, it would have been presented as calm statesmanship. If Clinton had done it, as he often did, it would have shown his charm.”
    Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

  • #22
    Jarod Kintz
    “I once played golf. That day I caught five new ducks to add to my farm collection.”
    Jarod Kintz, To be good at golf you must go full koala bear

  • #23
    Rumer Godden
    “There are several ways," he said shyly, "in which I'm trying to improve myself. I have a great many books and records and now I'm learning to play golf. Do you know golf, Sister? The English think it's a very serious game. I was going to learn a much more serious game called cricket, but you need twenty two people...”
    Rumer Godden, Black Narcissus

  • #24
    Jarod Kintz
    “Golfing is a gateway drug to duck farming. Just being out in nature is addicting.”
    Jarod Kintz, Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.

  • #25
    Jarod Kintz
    “John Daly is all the Caddyshack characters in one body. He's a caricature of a person, and that's why I'm a fan.”
    Jarod Kintz, Powdered Saxophone Music

  • #26
    Kathleen Klawitter
    “My parents were delighted that I was getting the help I needed, although I did not fully disclose the details of my living situation with them. While I was growing up, my projected role in the family was to always be the strong one. I was the mediator, or “Miss Perfect” as some family members would say, so I was usually clear on what I told them. With my traumatic brain injury, it was a bit different, so I didn’t share much of the daily happenings with my parents, except for the therapy sessions.”
    Kathleen Klawitter, Direct Hit: A Golf Pro's Remarkable Journey back from Traumatic Brain Injury

  • #27
    David Richo
    “Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.”
    David Richo

  • #28
    Graham Greene
    “Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”
    Graham Greene, Ways of Escape

  • #29
    Dean Karnazes
    “Some seek the comfort of their therapist's office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy.”
    Dean Karnazes, Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner

  • #30
    Erik Pevernagie
    “Everyone may agree upon the diagnosis, but not everyone may consent to the therapy. Indeed, for healing, things have to be sacrificed at times and separation or loss might always be heartbreak and leave scars of remorse or regret. (“Sorrow”)”
    Erik Pevernagie



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