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Letter "G" » Golf
«Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.»
Author: Alistair Cooke
| About:
Funny,
Golf
| Keywords:
arrogance, deflated, deflates, deflating, exhibition, overweening, soured, whiff, whiffing, whiffs
«Golf is a game not just of manners but of morals.»
«Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But this is certainly not the case.»
Author: Bobby Jones
(Golfer)
| About:
Golf,
Sports
| Keywords:
assuredly, at will, correctly, duplicate, duplicated, duplicates, duplicating, golf ball, mystify, mystifying, thousand times
«Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other»
Author: Florence King
| About:
Golf
| Keywords:
pointlessness, poles, Scottish, telephone, telephone pole
«Golf is a better game played downhill.»
«Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result»
«Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.»
«Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.»
«Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.»
Author: Woodrow T. Wilson
(President)
| About:
Golf
| Keywords:
adapted, ball game, Ball games, endeavors, golf ball, implemented, implementing, implements
«Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Funny,
Golf,
Sports
| Keywords:
ball, ball game, Ball games, designed, golf ball, golf game, hole, singularly, smaller
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