Alastair Mackenzie Quotes

The ideal hole is surely one that affords the greatest pleasure to the greatest number, gives the fullest advantage for accurate play, stimulates players to improve their game, and never becomes monotonous.

Alastair Mackenzie

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• I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it's a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Game
  • Giving
  • Best

• I'm not really that bothered by appearance. I know a few players who go off doing stuff in the mirror ages before they go out to play a game, but I'm not really interested in that.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Game
  • Know
  • Mirror

• I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Game
  • Famous

• When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revolve around baseball.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • World
  • Game
  • Baseball

• Sometimes, when you watch people play a video game, they seem lost in this wormhole, or in a trance.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Game
  • Lost

• I started playing video games, and in 1978 I discovered Dungeons & Dragons and started game-mastering and writing my own adventures and creating my own worlds.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Writing
  • Game
  • Games

• I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Game

• Despite what you hear about the publishing industry being a fixed game that you can only get in if you know somebody, I'm here in person to tell you it ain't so. If your stuff is really any good, sooner or later some editor will take a chance on you.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Good
  • Game
  • Chance

• Football, to me, is a passion, more than a game. It is everything. But more than anything, it is love for Roma. I have always been Roma. There has never been anything else.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Game
  • Passion
  • Football

• Listen, everything I have in my life is because of the NHL and because of hockey, and I love the game and I loved every minute of being a player, I loved coaching, I loved being involved in the NHL.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Life
  • Love
  • Game

• There can be raw pain and bleeding where so many thousands see the inevitable ups and downs of only a game.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Game
  • Pain

• He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Love
  • Advantage
  • Paradox

• I just really love the game. I'm very hungry, and I'm looking forward to playing in the best league in the world.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
  • World
  • Game

• Sometimes when I hear commentating, it's sickening. People who never played the game, people who never played in the league have an opinion, and that's all it is. You are here to educate the watcher or the viewer. Sometimes it comes off as personal.

  

  Kevin Garnett
  • People
  • Game
  • Opinion

• I was in love with a lot of people, because I was a student of the game of comedy - Carol Burnett, Jack Benny, Red Skelton, Jackie Gleason, Don Rickles, Red Foxx, Moms Mabley - who gets no credit, Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, George Kirby. I loved them all, and I used to just take a page out of all of them.

  

  Bernie Mac
  • People
  • Game
  • Comedy

• I think, probably, my best asset would probably be my all round game.

  

  Katie Taylor
  • Game

• I used to play golf. I wanted to be a better player, but after a while, I realized I'd always stink. And that's when I really started to enjoy the game.

  

  Don Rickles
  • Game
  • Player
  • Golf

• The best poker game is seven-card stud, high-low splits. I mean, it's the best if you don't have to declare high or low, and can win it all with a low straight.

  

  Bobby Riggs
  • High
  • Game

• In this game called football, we don't know who's going to the playoffs.

  

  Jason Pierre-Paul
  • Game
  • Football

• I think that people taking drugs occasionally are great. I think there's nothing wrong with it. But if you do it the whole time, you don't produce as good things as you could.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• If I claim I'm the opposite of my characters, then it'll just sound awful. But I tend to write the sort of things I'd never say because I'm not a very forceful person.

  

  Julia Davis
  • Characters
  • Opposite
  • Forceful

• I stopped focusing on people being different, and I started treating everyone the same way.

  

  Ivan Glasenberg
  • Different
  • Focusing
  • Treating

• I think that when you're kind of just shoved out there and you have to be tough and you're facing tough people and people are saying bad things about you, that all of a sudden, you have to become a little less sweet.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • People
  • Bad
  • Sweet

• The ideal hole is surely one that affords the greatest pleasure to the greatest number, gives the fullest advantage for accurate play, stimulates players to improve their game, and never becomes monotonous.

  

  Alastair Mackenzie
  • Game
  • Advantage
  • Hole