George Deukmejian Quotes

The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.

George Deukmejian

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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

• I learnt tennis, swimming, basketball and several others, but the sport I loved the most was golf.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Golf
  • Basketball
  • Tennis

• 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

• I'm in semi-retirement, but what am I going to retire to? I don't ride horses, I don't golf anymore. I shoot a game of pool every now and then.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Game
  • Golf
  • Retirement

• I am a Yankees fan. I should say - have been to more Yankees games than Mets games.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Games
  • Fan
  • Yankees

• Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Chance

• 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

• To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Yourself
  • Golf
  • Distance

• I loved junior golf.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Golf
  • Loved
  • Junior

• I love to play golf and watch movies in Tamil and Telugu whenever I get time.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Time
  • Play
  • Movies

• It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Up
  • May
  • Nice

• Of course, Dwight D. Eisenhower gets credit for doing more for golf than any other White House resident, a mid- to high-handicapper though he was.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • High
  • House
  • Doing

• I've had three broken legs and two knee replacements. But I'm very good at apres golf.

  

  Letitia Baldrige
  • Good
  • Broken
  • Golf

• Beauty is Nature in perfection; circularity is its chief attribute. Behold the full moon, the enchanting golf ball, the domes of splendid temples, the huckleberry pie, the wedding ring, the circus ring, the ring for the waiter, and the "round" of drinks.

  

  O. Henry
  • Nature
  • Moon
  • Golf

• Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure about it - not because I didn't like it, but I didn't want people to think I hadn't earned it.

  

  Bill Skarsgard
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• We still have to evolve, that's how we're created, we're created to evolve so you can believe in that the answer is in this book or in this one idea that the masses most believe in, each individual must evolve themselves, spiritually and consciously.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Believe
  • Book
  • Individual

• There are a number of traits that combine to create entrepreneurial potential. We find that openness coordinates very well with successful entrepreneurs. The more open-minded you are, the more you see the world as it actually is. The more closed-minded, the more you see the world as you want it to be.

  

  Adeo Ressi
  • World

• The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.

  

  George Deukmejian
  • Golf