Nikos Kazantzakis
Novelist, Playwright
"As I watched the seagulls, I thought, That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust."
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Marilyn Monroe
Actress, Model
"A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano -- and dumb."
Pablo Picasso
Painter, Sculptor
"The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face."
Anne Sexton
Poet, Author
"Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea."
Stuart Wilde
Author, Speaker
"The Universal Law is impartial. It will give you anything you believe. It will throw you garbage or roses depending on the energy you put in. You are the one in charge, and you must accept that and stand alone. If you think God is coming down to fix things for you, forget it. God is out playing golf."
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"Every great player has learned the two Cs: how to concentrate and how to maintain composure."
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"My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements."
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"Among other things, neuroplasticity means that emotions such as happiness and compassion can be cultivated in much the same way that a person can learn through repetition to play golf and basketball or master a musical instrument, and that such practice changes the activity and physical aspects of specific brain areas."
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"Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake."
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"I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course."
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"People started coining the phrase, 'Bubba Golf,' whatever you want to call it, which I like. 'Bubba Golf' is going to be fun. I mean, why do what everybody else does? That's boring."
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"I like to play snooker, golf as well."
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"Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life not to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy."
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"What's nice about our tour is you can't remember your bad shots."
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"The fun you get from golf is in direct ratio to the effort you don't put into it."
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"If I can hit a curveball, why can't I hit a ball that is standing still on a course?"
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"No golfer can ever become too good to practice."
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"Hitting the ball is the fun part of it, but the fewer times you hit the ball the more fun you have."
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"When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly."
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"The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green."
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"Golf. Trying to knock a tiny ball into an even smaller hole with implements ill suited to the purpose."
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"Sex is the most fun you can have without smiling."
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"Out-of-control emotions can make smart people stupid."
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"The problem with art is, it's not like the game of golf where you put the ball in the hole. There's no umpire; there's no judge. There are no rules. It's one of its problems. But it's also one of the great things about art. It becomes a question of what lasts."
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"The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law."
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