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"All golfers fear the one-iron. It has no angle, no loft. The one-iron is a confidence-crusher, a fear trip, an almost guarantee of shame, failure, dumbness and humiliation if you ever use it in public."
"When I got to the first tee on the first day, to hear the cheers, it was like all the oxygen got sucked out. It was hard to pull the club back."
"I'll be glad to leave here. I feel like eating palm trees. I don't like this place. It's for people with arthritis. They come here to play golf and to die."
"The arc of your swing doesn't have a thing to do with the size of your heart."
"I am very active, ... I like to ride horses. I golf. I perform onstage. I am a madman onstage."
"Forty-one rules aren't so many - St. Benedict had 73 to keep the brethren on the straight and narrow."
"I like travelers, but I don't like tourists. The difference is that travelers don't shop and they don't play golf."
"You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think."
"I call my putter 'Sweet Charity' because it covers such a multitude of sins from tee to green."
"The end of the story of Batman is he's dead. Because, in the end, the Batman dies. What else am I going to do? Retire and play golf? It doesn't work that way. It can't. I fight until I drop. And one day, I will drop."
"It's odd that the word 'atheist' even exist. I don't play golf, is there a word for non-golf players ?"
"Golf is an arrogant, elitist game that takes up entirely too much space in this country."
"Self-love is a big part of golf."
"I try to keep my mind active. I'm a solitaire and puzzle addict. I exercise religiously. I don't do many things religiously and I've taken up golf to have something to do when I have nothing to do."
"I am very proud of the fact I do not cheat when I'm playing golf."
"One thing both men have in common is a love of golf and a shared knowledge of the word "mulligan," which means a do-over to replace a lousy shot."
"You have the opposite of poker face. You have like.. miniature golf face."
"There would be nothing to get me to run for president. I don't even understand how anyone would want that job at all. Although I would be able to play golf which I don't seem to have time now."
"I always worry when someone's a good golfer. It's like you shouldn't have time to be good at anything. You should just be a politician and you shouldn't have time to practice golf."
"If you don't believe in the living dead, how do your explain the Golf Channel?"
