Bill Gates Quotes

I find golf very relaxing. It's a way to get away from work and get outside. It's a lot of fun, and once you get going it's almost kind of addictive.

Bill Gates

• Golf
• Relaxing
• Addictive

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• I loved junior golf.

  

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

  

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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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• Miniature golf, like billiards, is a game of angles. And, like billiards, most of the fun is in pretending you know what the hell you're doing. The worse you do, the more you have to laugh.

  

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• I am a boring loner. I enjoy Friday nights at home in my rocking chair with no arms, rocking and relaxing. It's not uncommon for Netflix to be involved. Records are a possibility, but most of it is spent in silence.

  

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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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• 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.

  

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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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• I really enjoy what little time I have at home. The golf course and practice facilities are perfect and so close to home!

  

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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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• I invite a lot of my friends to some of the performances that I do locally, and some of them know that I'm involved with music, but they're not quite sure how. And so it's kind of fun to play golf with a lot of my friends and then invite them to hear me sing once in a while.

  

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• Golf is a thinking man's game. You can have all the shots in the bag, but if you don't know what to do with them, you've got troubles.

  

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

  

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• 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.

  

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• That was a great game of golf, fellers.

  

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• We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.

  

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• 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.

  

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• I find golf very relaxing. It's a way to get away from work and get outside. It's a lot of fun, and once you get going it's almost kind of addictive.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Golf
  • Relaxing
  • Addictive