Irvin S. Cobb Quotes

Golf - a young man's vice and an old man's penance.

Irvin S. Cobb

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• The good part is if I play a solid round of golf, it will be very hard for the others to beat me. And that's all I'm thinking about.

  

  Adam Derek Scott
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Golf

• I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Parents

• For me, take Tiger Woods. I always thought he was great, but I never truly understood how good he was until I had the chance to go to Tiger Woods Golf Camp. He taught me how to swing and was hitting the ball, and this dude was unreal.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Good
  • Great
  • Golf

• Real golf is the 20 million people who play once a week or once a month.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • People
  • Real
  • Golf

• There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Game
  • Golf
  • Stinks

• It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Years
  • Baseball
  • Get

• My first calendar was a combination of photos taken from different shoots including golf and casual.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Different
  • Taken
  • Golf

• Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Character
  • Success
  • Golf

• I prefer to do cable TV because it allows you the time to do other things. I definitely have an eye on doing more work in features and playing different characters, but I am also a big fan of going on vacation and playing golf and going to the beach.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• With Tiger Woods, you know everyone is watching. But I think interest in women's golf is getting better too.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Women
  • Golf
  • Tiger

• I loved junior golf.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Golf
  • Loved
  • Junior

• Lots of people still don't think of golf as a sport.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • People
  • Think
  • Golf

• If you've driven over to the gay section of Los Angeles, it's like a golf course... Real estate values go 'boom!'

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Real
  • Gay
  • Golf

• Locker rooms and grill rooms are still the best places to find out things you don't know - at the Masters or any other golf tournament.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Know
  • Best
  • Golf

• The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Golf
  • Place
  • Fish

• I never worried about money, except that I knew that all I had to worry about was golf. As long as I could play, I was going to make money.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Long
  • Money
  • Worry

• I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?

  

  Hal Linden
  • Why
  • Myself
  • Challenge

• The key to any good sports story is identifying the defining moment. In football games or a boxing match, it's usually pretty obvious. But in golf, sometimes it happens on Thursday. Usually it's Sunday, but guys who don't know the game, they can miss it.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Good
  • Game
  • Pretty

• It's weird, because American films in the 1930s and '40s, particularly melodramas, were made for woman, from Bette Davis to Joan Crawford to Barbara Stanwyck to Katherine Hepburn, and for some reason we've taken a step backward in this sense.

  

  James Gray
  • American
  • Taken
  • Weird

• In the '80s and '90s, I was really interested in, moved by, exhilarated by, and troubled by rap in all the ways a white person from Brookline, Massachusetts should be. That was music that was making trouble, and it was interesting and provocative trouble.

  

  John Hodgman
  • Music
  • Interesting
  • Rap

• Divisional exercise is a great game of make-believe.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Game

• What draws me to the theatre, and what appealed to me about Too Much Light, is that you have no idea what's going to happen. That's the most exciting part of theatre, it's never the same. If it were, it would be like watching a movie.

  

  Lusia Strus
  • Movie
  • Light
  • Theatre

• There is no human-resources training for how to respond when you work for an unpredictable president. It's perhaps fitting that when you visit the website of the White House Office of Administration it says, 'Check back soon for more information.'

  

  John Dickerson
  • Work
  • House
  • Training

• Golf - a young man's vice and an old man's penance.

  

  Irvin S. Cobb
  • Golf
  • Man's
  • Penance