Tommy Bolt Quotes

#1. Actually I was more of a breaker than a thrower - most of them putters. I broke so many of those that I probably became the world's foremost authority on how to putt without a putter.

Tommy Bolt

#2. Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.

Ray Bradbury

#3. I don't really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.

Stan Lee

#4. Water holes are sacrificial waters where you make a steady gift of your pride and high-priced balls.

Tommy Bolt

#5. Never break your putter and your driver in the same round or you're dead.

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#6. If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up.

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#7. Always throw your clubs ahead of you. That way you don't have to waste energy going back to pick them up.

Tommy Bolt

#8. He [Bill Clinton] told me that he caddied in the same group with me in the Hot Springs Open. That's why I voted for him, becasue he was a caddie.

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#9. The good chip allows you to whistle while you walk in the dark alleys of golf.

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#10. I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.

Claire Danes

#11. Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality.

Socrates

#12. Golf is a game where guts and blind devotion will always net you absolutely nothing but an ulcer.

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#13. The splendors of the firmament of time
May be eclipsed, but are extinguished not;
Like stars to their appointed height they climb
And death is a low mist which cannot blot
The brightness it may veil.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#14. The mind messes up more shots than the body.

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#15. Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.

John Locke

#16. There are so many opportunities where people are thirsting: young people who are preparing for Confirmation, young adults who are searching, people of every age. There's a great thirst, I think, of people to come to understand and to belong to the Church of Christ.

Joseph Edward Kurtz

#17. I've thrown or broken a few clubs in my day. In fact, I guess at one time or another I probably held distance records for every club in the bag.

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#18. In golf, driving is a game of free-swinging muscle control, while putting is something like performing eye surgery and using a bread knife for a scalpel.

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#19. I know you can be fined for throwing a club, but I want to know if you can get fined for throwing a caddie?

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#20. I wonder who is going to finish second.

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#21. The biggest liar in the world is the golfer who claims he plays the game for exercise.

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#22. They throw their clubs backwards, and that's wrong. You should always throw a club ahead of you so that you don't have to walk any extra distance to get it.

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#23. Putting allows the touchy golfer two to four opportunities to blow a gasket in the short space of two to forty feet.

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#24. There who'll take advantage.

Janet Evanovich

#25. There is no better game in the world when you are in good company, and no worse game when you are in bad company.

Tommy Bolt