Retief Goosen Quotes

#1. My image is very important to me. I want to bring a good face to my family. That's the way I've been raised.

Freddy Adu

#2. You could play well and still lose.

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#3. I've got an L3 bulging disk and degenerating disk. It's bulging in two places. Yeah, it's not good.

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#4. A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

Oscar Wilde

#5. Just about every player on tour has a bad back. It's just one of those games that does mess you up a little bit. You've got to keep looking after it.

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#6. I turned pro and won Rookie of the Year on the South African Tour and then it took me two tries at the qualifying school on the European Tour and to get my card and the rest is history.

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#7. I mean, to win a major, you've got to be a good player and you've got to get your breaks, as well, to win.

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#8. One world is aware, and by far the largest to me, and that is myself, And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness, I can wait. WALT WHITMAN, Leaves of Grass

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#9. I started hitting the ball a lot better a few weeks ago, and just the putter wasn't working. And putting a new putter in the bag last week, it just helped.

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#10. Majors are important but so is every other tournament I play.

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#11. Well, let me tell you, after three years of Obama, we are hopeless and changeless, and we need Mitt Romney to bring us back, to bring America back.

Chris Christie

#12. I played a lot of other sports at school and just one day the golf bug bit me and I started playing serious golf from when I was ten years old.

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#13. Well my dad was a pretty good player at one stage and my two older brothers played golf as well. So there were always golf clubs flying around the house.

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#14. You can't really measure your game. You can shoot seven under and lose and you can shoot even and win.

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#15. There are a number of golfers who are playing great golf in their 40s.

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#16. Traveling around, it's difficult to follow much TV. Mainly I'm somebody who watches sports.

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#17. An actual saga demands change, both in its characters and its world.

Katharine Kerr

#18. Pretty much whoever wins the tournament at the end of the week is the guy that putted probably the best.

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#19. I do like match play. I like trying to match an opponent shot for shot. It's a challenge. And it's something different.

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#20. I'm pretty committed to being a filmmaker because it incorporates everything I love: music, art direction, story, and you know - everything.

Adria Petty

#21. I'm a good listener.

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#22. I've always been kind of a shy guy. Not very outgoing. I might not start a conversation, but if somebody else does, I'll chat away.

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#23. questions of what we're supposed to or not supposed to do aren't even in it; if we tried to go around, we'd find circumstances forcing us back.

Stephen King

#24. I hang around under the radar. Nobody is bothering me for interviews.

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#25. I remember winning the first time, you know, suddenly everybody expects, well, okay, now he should win every time he tees it up, win six tournaments.

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#26. Golf is growing, and there are more good young players, but you don't see them going abroad. It's so expensive to travel.

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#27. I do believe in one true love.

Michelle Dockery

#28. Would ride into fire. For Odysseus that whip was pride.

David Gemmell

#29. The Law of Diminishing Returns is true of everything in life, except sex, which seems endlessly repeatable with effect.

Robert McKee

#30. Push it. examine all things intensely and relentlessly.

Annie Dillard

#31. You see in such a world as this, an idealist -or perhaps it's only a sentimentalist-must be stoned to death. He makes the others so uncomfortable. He haunts them at their golf.

Ford Madox Ford

#32. You know, one day you make putts and the next day you don't.

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#33. Golf is flexibility, and I notice more guys injured. You can overdo this conditioning.

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#34. I'm not that clued up on the American sports yet, really.

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#35. But I don't know if people are meant to be together. You have to have a lot in common, choose well and be really fortunate. It's not like you're sprinkled with fairy dust. You have to believe that love will be there when you need it.

Claire Danes