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"So I do have this ambivalence. Obviously I'm against militaries, because of what militaries do. In many ways though, the air force was unmilitary-like. They dropped bombs on people, but...they had a golf course."
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"O. J. Simpson has already received the ultimate punishment: For the rest of his life he has to associate with golfers."
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"Golf is tougher than my first wife."
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"When the going is good and the putts are dropping, you love your putter. When it's going bad, it's like it has betrayed you and you want to throw the sucker in a lake."
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"The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance."
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"Folks have a common misconception that Mississippi is strictly a rural, outdoors state. While we are famous for our hunting, sport fishing and year-round golf, we also have leading manufacturers like Peavey Electronics and Viking Range Corp."
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"I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, "You can like Mozart and ice hockey..." - and then I used to say "golf," but Tiger took over golf! - "and Picasso and still be as black as the ace of spades.""
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"I started playing golf when I was a kid, because across the street from where we lived there was a little nine-hole golf course where my father worked."
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"If I get a week off, I'll go to a hotel that has a golf course. I like to come downstairs and go right onto the course. I'll do that five days in a row."
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"The kids say golf taught them this and that. I get it with the military: A guy joins the military because he needs discipline and has to find himself. But don't tell me, 'Golf helps you find yourself.' I've been playing my whole life, and I'm still looking for myself."
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"I think one reason people play golf is it allows them to obsess about something other than the daily crap. It takes your mind off that."
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"I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere."
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"It is true that my predecessor did not object, as I do, to pictures of one's golf skill in action. But neither, on the other hand, did he ever bean a Secret Serviceman."
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"You look out on the driving range and it looks like snow, but it isn't, it's covered in golf balls."
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"There are plenty of guys who played great golf, had great careers and only won a few majors."
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"In golf, 'close' is like the north and south rim of the Grand Canyon."
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"The mental aspect of golf is what makes golf such a great sport."
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"I thought the other ones were so obviously - what are we going to do if she burns down the house? The DEA, which I think was maybe the best one because she's wearing the jacket when she goes through the mirror and I think that was kind of amazing because you really weren't expecting that. There's something almost slapstick about this in a way that worried me. It was a little pratfalley with the golf club and the - but I think it probably cut together okay."
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"The bigger point here is that golf is a good metaphor for one's life. The challenge of golf for me is trying to learn new rules. It's something you always have to work at; you don't get perfect at golf. It's the never-ending quest for betterment."
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