Daily Quotation

These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

~ Sam Snead

 

"What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and the power itself in man. What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is increasing--that resistance has been overcome. Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but competence. The first principle of our humanism: The weak and the failures shall perish. They ought even to be helped to perish."

-Friedrich Nietzsche​

 

I was three over today: One over a house, one over a patio and one over a swimming pool..
~ George Brett

 

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible."

-Bertrand Russell​

 

Actually, the only time I ever took out a one-iron was to kill a tarantula. And I took a 7 to do that.

~ Jim Murray

 

"People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated."

-John Kenneth Galbraith​

 

The only sure rule in golf is - he who has the fastest cart never has to play the bad lie.
~ Mickey Mantle

 

"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country ... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign ... until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."

-Abraham Lincoln​

 

Sex and golf are the two things you can enjoy even if you're not good at them.
~ Kevin Costner

 

"I don't know what will be used in the next world war, but the 4th will be fought with stones."

-Albert Einstein​

 

I don't fear death, but I sure don't like those three-footers for par.
~ Chi Chi Rodriguez

 

"Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent."

-Bruno Jasienski​

 

After all these years, it's still embarrassing for me to play on the American golf tour. Like the time I asked my caddie for a sand wedge and he came back ten minutes later with a ham on rye.
~ Chi Chi Rodriguez

 

"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."

-H. L. Mencken​

 

The ball retriever is not long enough to get my putter out of the tree.
~ Brian Weis

 

"In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep."

-Albert Einstein​