"My parents didn't play golf."
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"People who watch their weight, golf scores, and fuel bills seem to shun quantitative evaluation of their investment management skills although it involves the most important client in the world-themselves."
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"On the course, what is feared is like a magnet. Water, bunkers, trees, ravines, high grass - whatever you fear turns magnetic."
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"Cursed be the hand that made these fatal holes."
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"I know the joy of skating on a clear cold day. I know the joy of getting off a perfect drive in golf. I know the delight of a fine meal after a long walk. These are real and wholesome, but all of them put together can not approach the thrill of ridding yourself of fear!"
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"I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love."
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"The world is full of people who would like nothing better than to spend six hours on a golf course. I would rather be chopping shallots."
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"The divorce is from my old putter. I think it's final - at least we're due for a long separation. I've suffered with that old putter for two years now. It got so rude I couldn't stand it."
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"Golf is an expensive way to make yourself miserable."
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"Most people say, "I can't wait to retire so I can play golf," or go yachting or whatever they do. Well, if I was playing golf, I would want that to finish so I could go and dream up a new TV show."
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"The best architects feel it to be their duty to make the path to the hole as free as possible from annoying difficulties for the less skillful golfers, while at the same time presenting to the scratch players a route calling for the best shots at their command."
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"One of the big changes in the Congress since I first came to Washington is that all of these folks go home every weekend. They used to play golf together; their families got to know each other, go to dinner at each other's homes at weekends - and these would be people who were political adversaries."
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"Under most circumstances that would result in disqualification. If the rules of golf are upheld, I believe he should have been disqualified."
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"Obviously I'm very confident, not only on the golf course, when I race. I've always backed myself. I'm a very confident sort of person."
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"I thought marriage was tough. Golf's like going over Niagara Falls in a barrel! It's a psychological game that gets into your blood."
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"I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes-there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first learned to walk upon a golf course on clean, crisp, mornings."
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"The real key to Jack's [Nicklaus] success was his fantastic ability to score. His drives sometimes went into the rough, but he could plow the ball out of the tallest grass and get it on the green; bad lies simply didn't affect him as they did the others. Jack also got tremendous height with his one-iron and two-iron, which meant that he could stop them better than his rivals."
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"I'm really good at mini-golf. You know, maybe not big person golf, but little person golf."
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"I don't play golf competitively. I tell everybody that I cheat so they won't gamble with me. That's why you can't watch football. Everybody's gambling. They don't want to watch the game; they watch the spread."
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"Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have won when they have lost nor that they had a magnificent drive when they foozled it. The Englishman is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet."
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