Gary Player Quotes

I am tired of all these golfers who are happy with second place. The only one who will like you if you come in second place is your wife and your dog. And that is only if you have a good wife and a good dog.

Gary Player

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• Second Place

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• We will always make music, but Die Antwoord is... finite.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Music
  • Die
  • Always

• I am who I am. I have a low voice, and I look like somebody's dad or boss or a police chief, and those roles come my way.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Dad
  • Police
  • Roles

• Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • God
  • Knowledge
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• I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • America
  • Know

• As a team, we have a lot of work ahead of us in FY16 and beyond, but I am confident that, working together, we will make Microsoft a leader in the mobile-first, cloud-first world.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • World
  • Work
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• The fight against terror cannot stop as long as terrorism itself is not stopped, but the path of war must change: it must lead directly to terrorists and not be waged on the backs of three million Palestinians.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Long
  • War
  • Change

• The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Love
  • Story
  • Young

• I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • Amazing
  • Problem

• You don't become the leading spinner of the team by just talking. You have to perform well consistently over a long period of time. I have bowled well and won games for India. That is why I am the No. 1 spinner. Every time I have taken the field, I have given my 100%.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Time
  • Team
  • Games

• It's time to re-think charity. It's time to give charity the big-league freedoms we really give to business. The fight for these freedoms must be our new cause, because without them, all of our causes are ultimately lost.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Time
  • Business
  • Lost

• If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Fun
  • You
  • Rhythm

• The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereotypical life-or-death songs millions of times. It's good to mix it up a little bit.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Up
  • Present

• We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Time
  • World
  • Why

• I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Hand
  • Find
  • Jump

• I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Person
  • Creative
  • Busy

• The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Free
  • You
  • Speech

• I'm very unorganized.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Very
  • Unorganized

• I'm happy when I'm juggling, but I feel like I've gone from, like, 3 balls to 10 bowling balls. But, that's a good problem. I don't really have a complaint about that.

  

  Kirstie Alley
  • Good
  • Happy

• I wanted to be someone who wanted to produce music, and here I am, and I'm happy about it.

  

  Arijit Singh
  • Music
  • Happy

• Being too happy is bad for you. 8 on 1 10-scale is just right. Eg. cancer patients are more likely to survive if they're at an 8 instead of 9 or 10.

  

  Ed Diener
  • Happy
  • Survive
  • Cancer Patients

• Silence is a lie. Silence has a loud voice. It shouts, "Nothing important is happening - don't worry." So when something important IS going on, silence is a lie."

  

  Abraham Michael Rosenthal
  • Important
  • Worry
  • Silence

• The first time I ever had the opportunity to dive on the Great Barrier Reef, it was while filming 'Oceans Deadliest' with Steve Irwin. I remember just how awestruck I was by its beauty.

  

  Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
  • Time
  • Great
  • Remember

• I am tired of all these golfers who are happy with second place. The only one who will like you if you come in second place is your wife and your dog. And that is only if you have a good wife and a good dog.

  

  Gary Player
  • Happy
  • Golfers
  • Second Place