Demaret Quotes

#1. You may not have pulled the trigger, but you helped cause the tragedy.

Jennifer Brown

#2. It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives; they are bound only to attempt the lesser feat of making sense of the ways we try to make sense of our lives.

Frank Kermode

#3. Move fast. A sense of urgency is the one thing you can develop that will separate you from everyone else. When you get a good idea, do it now.

Brian Tracy

#4. Jimmy Demaret and I had the best sports psychologist in the world. His name was Jack Daniels and he was waiting for us after every round.

Jack Burke Jr.

#5. Some players would complain if they had to play on Dolly Parton's bedspread.

Jimmy Demaret

#6. Sam Snead was born with a natural ability to keep his bar bills as low as his golf scores.

Jimmy Demaret

#7. I am tired of myself in every way. All things, deep down to the secret of their roots, are stained by the color of my weariness.

Fernando Pessoa

#8. There is nothing stronger than gentleness.

John Wooden

#9. Golf is based on honesty, where else would you admit to a seven on a par three?

Jimmy Demaret

#10. You can't make sense of the Bible without understanding that God is holy and that this holy God is intent on making a holy people to live with him forever in a holy heaven.

Kevin DeYoung

#11. The players themselves can be classified into two groups- the attractions and the entry fees.

Jimmy Demaret

#12. You know what they say about big hitters ... the woods are full of them.

Jimmy Demaret

#13. Every day is a dance deed.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. Fuck me and my inability to love him.

C.D. Reiss

#15. The early versions of 'Shell's Wonderful World of Golf' were great. It's sort of interesting: as it progressed, it became worse and worse, but the early versions were really fantastic with Jimmy Demaret and Gene Sarazen. They were classics.

Donald Trump

#16. One of these days I'm going to write a book on drops. That ought to sell. The shot's become more popular than putting.

Jimmy Demaret

#17. Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at it.

Jimmy Demaret

#18. If he takes the option of dropping behind the point where the ball rests, keeping in line with the pin, his nearest drop is Honolulu.

Jimmy Demaret

#19. He's hit it fat ... It will probably be short ... It just hit the front edge of the green ... It's got no chance ... It's rolling toward the cup ... Well I'll be damned!

Jimmy Demaret

#20. Bob Hope has a beautiful short game. Unfortunately, it's off the tee.

Jimmy Demaret

#21. When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.

Amartya Sen

#22. Brother, if you want to get the lowdown, Come along and let's all have a hoedown.

Brenda Lee

#23. Mr. Agnew, I believe you have a slight swing in your flaw.

Jimmy Demaret

#24. There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen

Maurice Sendak

#25. As if this whole thing isn't confusing enough, election officials announced this week that the alphabet on the ballot will begin with the letter R, then W, then Q. You know, even Sesame Street is laughing at California now.

Jay Leno

#26. The "unchurching" of the next generation is happening right under our noses, even in the very churches that pride themselves on reaching the unchurched.

Michael S. Horton

#27. Golf took young kids like Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan and myself out of the caddie ranks and gave us money and a little bit of fame and let us live in the tall cotton.

Jimmy Demaret

#28. No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.

Harry Emerson Fosdick