Bernard Darwin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behaviour not otherwise excusable.
Extremely large greens breed slovenly play. When any green ceases to command respect, it loses its value as a test of that rarest of all strokes, the shot home.
I've come to realize that I perform best when I'm letting my subconscious mind hit the ball and my conscious mind is otherwise occupied.
I always wanted to be a golfer, only I realised that if I'd played golf I would have been skint.
I don't despise, because no-one should live rent-free inside your head.
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
It is the constant and undying hope for improvement that makes golf so exquisitely worth playing.
If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human?
My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.
Truly, a life in constant pain is the life of the damned.

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