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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• With Tiger Woods, you know everyone is watching. But I think interest in women's golf is getting better too.

  

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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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• I love to cook. I love to cook for myself and my husband and big groups. I find it very relaxing, and I love socializing around a dinner table.

  

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• I love watching people enjoying food. It's very relaxing for me to cook.

  

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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'm a big believer in the Wii. I love the physicality of the Wii controller, and how you can get the feeling of throwing a bowling ball or swinging a golf club. Those are the kinds of games I really like.

  

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• Any time you have two Presidents Cups in a row and you go to the 18th green, I mean, golf is the winner.

  

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• In fact, people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior.

  

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• I am convinced that in order for you, as a patient, to be protected, it has to be transparent, evidence-based, objective information. Not self-serving information. Not pharma-driven information. Not ad-driven information. It is transparent, objective, evidence-based information.

  

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• Faith is something that's been created to help people get through life.

  

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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