"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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"I don't think anywhere is there a symbiotic relationship between caddie and player like there is in golf."
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"There is no surer or more painful way to learn a rule than to be penalized once for breaking it."
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"Golf always makes me so damned angry."
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"I was a pitcher, and my dad played in college. The hardest day of my life was telling him I was going to quit to focus more on golf. But with golf, I felt like the game can't be perfected, and that motivated me."
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"Here were decent godless people; Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls."
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"No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind."
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"There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which is the most bitter."
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"Just trust your instincts. There's an old saying in golf, you've studied the swing many times, and you practice and practice, but when you stand over the ball, you just have to trust your swing. And you trust it. And if you don't trust it, you'll ruin it; your brain will take over."
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"The only thing you should force in a golf swing is the club back in the bag."
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"Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference."
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"Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other."
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"When Nicklaus plays wells well, he wins. When he plays badly, he finishes second. When he plays terribly, he finishes third."
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"Golf is a mental disorder."
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"But I can only take so much TV, because there is so much advice. I find people will preach about virtually anything - your diet, how to live your life, how to improve your golf. The lot. I have always had a thing against the Mister Know-It-Alls."
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"Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic."
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