Notah Begay III Quotes

I realized that the secret to golf isn't how low you shoot when it's going good, it's how to make your bad rounds better.

Notah Begay III

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• 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

• 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

• My secret with kale is to add lots of sweet or sharp flavours to offset some of that grassy intensity.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Sweet
  • Secret
  • Offset

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

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • People
  • Think
  • Golf

• I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Trying
  • Myself
  • Better

• Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Die
  • Secret
  • Recipe

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

  

  Sam Snead
  • Place
  • Golf
  • Fish

• I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Life
  • Secret
  • Existence

• I quickly discovered that trying to go play golf while living in Manhattan was about as easy as trying to grab a taxi while standing out in front of Saks Fifth Avenue in the freezing rain on the last shopping day before Christmas.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Trying
  • Day
  • Golf

• I have been taking stock of my 50 years since I left Wichita. How I have existed fills me with horror for I failed in everything. Spelling, arithmetic, writing, swimming, tennis, golf, dancing, singing, acting, wife, mistress, whore, friend, even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of not trying. I tried with all my heart.

  

  Louise Brooks
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Heart

• I plan my golf outfits for the tournaments, I recycle some for the practice rounds, but I always have new ideas for my golf attire, and I like to dress nice after the rounds, so I have to bring all my heels. It's terrible. The worst part about being on tour is living out of a suitcase.

  

  Paula Creamer
  • Nice
  • Practice
  • Golf

• Women in pro-ams are always telling me about all the business deals they've struck on the golf course playing with their male work colleagues.

  

  Paula Creamer
  • Work
  • Women
  • Business

• Since I was a small boy, I was always around the game. I don't play golf much myself, but I love watching it. My father has played golf all his life.

  

  Bill Paxton
  • Life
  • Father
  • Game

• I like golf, hiking, camping, boating and fishing.

  

  Bryan Clay
  • Golf
  • Fishing
  • Hiking

• My grandfather was Scottish and just loved the game. My grandmother was a great golfer and a club champion. Whenever I was visiting them, I got a double barrel of golf lore. I guess it was always in my blood.

  

  Mark Frost
  • Great
  • Game
  • Golf

• When I was 4, my dad let me 'help' him back out of the driveway, but I'm amazing at driving golf carts.

  

  Mark Indelicato
  • Help
  • Dad
  • Amazing

• I've been playing golf as long as I've been dancing, since I was 13 or 14. I play off six. I like to get out on a golf course as often as I can.

  

  Anton du Beke
  • Long
  • Golf

• It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.

  

  Bobby Jones
  • Time
  • Golf

• If you mean you think it is my job to go into the secret passage first, O Thorin Thrain’s son Oakenshield, may your beard grow ever longer,” he said crossly, “say so at once and have done!

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Think
  • Secret
  • Longer

• People are always backing up when I'm just going to shake their hands.

  

  James Caan
  • People
  • Up

• You can only be your best self. When I initially got on the air, I would look around me and watch people that I thought were really good and try to be like they were. And I got to a point where I realized, "I can't be them." I can only be the best that Abby can be. And as long as I'm myself and I'm genuine and I'm real, then I think that's all you can do.

  

  Abby Huntsman
  • Real
  • Think
  • Air

• Peggy Atwood, Alice Munro, Hugh Hood, Michael Ondaatje - these are all old friends from my early 20s.

  

  Clark Blaise
  • Friends
  • Hood

• I realized that the secret to golf isn't how low you shoot when it's going good, it's how to make your bad rounds better.

  

  Notah Begay III
  • Golf
  • Secret