Jimmy Demaret Golf Quotes & Sayings

O heavenly Father,
protect and bless all things
that have breath: guard them
from all evil and let them sleep in peace. — Albert Schweitzer

Golf took young kids like Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan and myself out of the caddie ranks and gave us money and a little bit of fame and let us live in the tall cotton. — Jimmy Demaret

Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at it. — Jimmy Demaret

The early versions of 'Shell's Wonderful World of Golf' were great. It's sort of interesting: as it progressed, it became worse and worse, but the early versions were really fantastic with Jimmy Demaret and Gene Sarazen. They were classics. — Donald Trump

A pessimist is just an optimist with experience. — Eyedea

I believe the best mode of aiding convicts is so to apportion their tasks in prison as to give to the industrious the opportunity of earning a sum for themselves by 'over-work.' A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire. — Dorothea Dix

The cybernetic operation?"
"No, the sex change."
The doctor's smile faltered.
"I'm joking. — Marissa Meyer

Everything in Haiti right now is a priority. — Michel Martelly

My dad was a high school teacher and made no money. — Billy Baldwin

I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, 'I wish more people saw that' - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business. — Christopher Walken

Golf is based on honesty, where else would you admit to a seven on a par three? — Jimmy Demaret

One of these days I'm going to write a book on drops. That ought to sell. The shot's become more popular than putting. — Jimmy Demaret

Anxiety has afflicted me all my life. — Scott Stossel

Just think for a moment if science really could move in the field of authenticity of works of art. There would be a cultural revolution to say the least, but also, I would say, a market revolution, let me add. — Maurizio Seracini

I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking. — Gertrude Stein

Mr. Agnew, I believe you have a slight swing in your flaw. — Jimmy Demaret

You know what they say about big hitters ... the woods are full of them. — Jimmy Demaret

He's hit it fat ... It will probably be short ... It just hit the front edge of the green ... It's got no chance ... It's rolling toward the cup ... Well I'll be damned! — Jimmy Demaret

Sam Snead was born with a natural ability to keep his bar bills as low as his golf scores. — Jimmy Demaret

Who can think that this eviction of Germans was undertaken only as a temporary experiment? Those who adopted the decision on the eviction of the Germans from these territories, and who understood that Poles from other Polish districts would at once move into these territories, cannot suggest after a while to carry out reverse measures. The very idea of involving millions of people in such experiments is unbelievable, quite apart from the cruelty of it, both towards the Poles and the Germans themselves. — Vyacheslav Molotov

I love being able to help and encourage my friends and I try to inspire them as they do me. — Teresa Palmer

Jimmy Demaret and I had the best sports psychologist in the world. His name was Jack Daniels and he was waiting for us after every round. — Jack Burke Jr.

Amazing how much more you appreciate the little things when all the big things are taken from you. — Marilyn Grey

Bob Hope has a beautiful short game. Unfortunately, it's off the tee. — Jimmy Demaret

Some players would complain if they had to play on Dolly Parton's bedspread. — Jimmy Demaret

There are villains to overthrow, damsels to be saved ... This is no time to be laid low. — Nicole Sager

If he takes the option of dropping behind the point where the ball rests, keeping in line with the pin, his nearest drop is Honolulu. — Jimmy Demaret

What we have created instead, as customers and employers and investors, is mountains of paper wealth so enormous that a handful of people in charge of them can take millions and billions for themselves without hurting anyone. Apparently.

Many members of my generation are disappointed. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.