Colin Montgomerie Quotes
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I learnt tennis, swimming, basketball and several others, but the sport I loved the most was golf.
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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.
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My first calendar was a combination of photos taken from different shoots including golf and casual.
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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.
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I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf.
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The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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I know the joy of skating on a clear cold day. I know the joy of getting off a perfect drive in golf. I know the delight of a fine meal after a long walk. These are real and wholesome, but all of them put together can not approach the thrill of ridding yourself of fear!
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Sports formed me. I was always decently skilled but lacked size, so I had to resort to using my skill versus my power. I strategically play golf because that's all I can do. It's the same on the basketball court. I try to get open and shoot it. Or I use the open space on the soccer field.
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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.
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Practice, work out, proper nutrition, lots of work on my short game. In golf, that's really where the strokes come off the scorecard.
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The golf facet of my life doesn't go with the rest of my life, which is a rough-and-tumble life. I work in real estate development, which is the toughest business, and I do it in the toughest city. I deal with ruthless people.
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I win at golf. I'm a club champion many times at different clubs. I win at golf. I can sink the three-footer on the 18th hole when others can't.
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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.
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Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?
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Instead of saving for someone else's college education, I'm currently saving for a luxury retirement community replete with golf carts and handsome young male nurses who love butterscotch.
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Obesity is racing through America, everywhere. It's high time someone spent some money to do something about it.
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I have never really encountered anybody that was rude to me. Well, not to my face anyway.
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Given the right information to help them decide, people will opt for conditions that benefit our creaturely neighbours, even where they have no particular interest in larks or cuckoo wasps - because those conditions benefit us.
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I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.
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That's great. They should put the hole in the fairway.
