“Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose”
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“Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose”
“Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.”
“Children's games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity”
“Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast ”
“Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. ”
“Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers ”
“Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness”
“I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles ”
“It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling”
“The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.”
“Golf is a good walk spoiled”
“Energy is eternal delight”
“And gain is gain, however small”
“The true object of all human life is play”
“Poets do not go mad, but chess players do”
“The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win”
“The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.”