"Much of the fire with him [Ben Hogan] was lit by Byron Nelson, who came from the same town - the same caddie yard - and achieved fame and fortune several years ahead of Ben and who, as a kid, had always been popular and better liked than Ben. No puzzle at all."

-- Dan Jenkins

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“A lot of composers I know hate temp scores because people get attached to them.”
“He can play. He can shoot. He can dribble. He can pass. He's a great player. Period. No question about it. And if anyone thinks Dirk is not a great player, I'll punch them in their face.”
“I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be proved, must take two million years to reach the earth.”
“You know what the secret to weight loss is? Don't eat much.”
“The membrane between where we are right now and a very different reality, is so much thinner than we like to think. Things can go back, and things can go to the side, and things can go to places where we might not even have been on guard that they might go. I think that if there is a great gift that this [Donald Trump] election gave us, is this sort of sense of vigilance, the sense that we have to remain on guard. We have to support our free press.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“When I was a kid, I was afraid of large group of conforming people.”
“Today's devices blurt out the absolute truth as they know it. A smart device in the future might know when NOT to blurt out the truth.”
“I think we have to keep putting women's sports in the limelight. I thought the Women's World Cup did a wonderful job of showing the quality of women's soccer. But we also need coverage and marketing and press and getting these female athletes to become household names.”

Source : "The Road to Rio". Interview with Avery Stone, www.yahoo.com. August 3, 2016.

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