That's the trouble with you sad-city types: a place has to be miserable and dull as ditchwater before you believe it's real.
Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
Every day that you don't practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness
Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.
The most important shot in golf is the next one.
Hitting a golf ball and putting have nothing in common. They're two different games. You work all your life to perfect a repeating swing that will get you to the greens, and then you have to try to do something that is totally unrelated. There shouldn't be any cups, just flag sticks. And then the man who hit the most fairways and greens and got closest to the pins would be the tournament winner.
This will be my last year, Lord. I have gotten what I can. Thank You.
An Ambassadore is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country, a news writer is a man of no virtue who lies at home for himself.
People probably long for something genuinely personal in a society where the personal is often indistinguishable from the "personalized. " Maybe the poetry audience member is searching for his or her own "personal space" and they expect the poet to be a sort of avatar of the private life. But that sort of representation is distasteful to me. Asking a poet to represent the personal life is, paradoxically, to turn the poet into something other than a person.
But as Shakespeare’s Richard II boasts, ‘Not all the water in the rough rude seaCan wash the balm off from an anointed king.