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"After I won, I asked my wife what she wanted. She said a divorce. I said I wasn't thinking of anything that expensive." -- Nick Faldo, after winning $1 million in a tournament "Do you mind if I play while you talk?" -- Seve Ballesteros, said laughingly while playing in front of a loud gallery "Golf is not a funeral, though both can be very sad affairs." -- Bernard Darwin "We had a small wager, but the outcome did not affect the Forbes rating." -- Warren Buffett, on playing golf with Bill Gates "At first, I said, 'Let's play for taxes.'" -- Michael Jordan, on playing golf with President Clinton "To lose a game is not a national calamity. This will act as a tonic all --around." -- Walter Hagen, after the United States lost the Ryder Cup
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Golf is a pretty funny game, especially if you don't play it, and if you do, a sense of humor is required to keep you from going batty. The beauty of this delightfully wry, witty, and often wise collection of quips and quibbles is that you can pretty much drop in anywhere and emerge with just enough perspective, from just enough diverse sources, to keep your own relationship with the game from driving you nuts: "Golf is mostly a game of failures" (Tommy Armour); "Golf is not a funeral, though both can be very sad" (Bernard Darwin); "Golfers just love punishment. And that's where I come in" (architect Pete Dye); and "I tried. I swung. I missed. I never tried again" (Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn). Those are all from a section called "Golf Wisdom," but there is much more here than existential grousing--Chi Chi Rodriguez on Jack Nicklaus driving one into the woods: "That's where a bear belongs"; Bob Hope on Pebble Beach: "(It's) Alcatraz with grass"; and Sam Snead describing how he stays loose while swinging: "I try to feel oily." The way Golf Shorts greases the funny bone, it should help keep you relaxed, and your swing lubricated. --Jeff Silverman
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