Herbert Wind famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In golf, as in no other sport, your principal opponent is youself.
-- Herbert Wind

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According to the Captain of The Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, striking your opponent or caddie at St Andrews, Hoylake or Westward Ho! meant that you lost the hole, except on medal days when it counted as a rub of the green.
-- Herbert Wind

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Golf without Jones would be like France without Paris: leaderless, lightless and lonely.
-- Herbert Wind

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WHILE A MANS BATTLE against himself is undoubtedly at the heart of golfs abiding appeal, the setting in which it is played is, for most golfers, one of the most wonderful things about it.
-- Herbert Wind

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Beyond the fact that it is a limitless arena for the full play of human nature, there is no sure accounting for golf's fascination... Perhaps it is nothing more than the best game man has ever devised.
-- Herbert Wind

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No golfer has completed his education until he has played and studied Royal Dornoch.
-- Herbert Wind

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Flying is more than a sport and more than a job; flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime.
Boxing is an all year round sport. You never know when they're going to call you, so you got to stay ready.
The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.
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.
Little Bobby Jones of Atlanta is really a fine player, and shows every indication of becoming a tremendous great one, once he is master of himself, which must come with maturity.
Unfortunately, the suit is so stiff, I can't do this with two hands, but I'm going to try a little sand-trap shot here.
If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
Like mortars in old war films, they are often ready to destroy the opponent's unsupported defences.
In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.
But how difficult it can be to gain the desired full point against an opponent of inferior strength, when this is demanded by the tournament position!

Herbert Wind famous quotes

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