Zaharias Of Golf Quotes & Sayings

I played many sports, but when that golf bug hit me, it was permanent. — Babe Didrikson Zaharias

I loved reading historical novels when I was young, but I definitely don't think I wrote one. When I read my book through, when it was completely done and in printed galleys, I was surprised by how uninterested in the passage of time and history the book seemed to be. Even though you can feel it all there, that's just not what it's focused on. — Danielle Dutton

My highest compliment is when someone comes up to me to say, "My 14-year-old daughter, or my 12-year-old son read your book and loved it." I cannot conceive of a greater compliment than that - to write something that as an adult I find satisfying, but also that manages to reach a curious 13- or 14-year-old. — Malcolm Gladwell

The text, in its mass, is comparable to a sky, at once flat and smooth, deep, without edges and without landmarks; like the soothsayer drawing on it with the tip of his staff an imaginary rectangle wherein to consult, according to certain principles, the flight of birds, the commentator traces through the text certain zones of reading, in order to observe therein the migration of meanings, the outcropping of codes, the passage of citations. — Roland Barthes

They say golf came easy to me because I was a good athlete, but there's not any girl on the LPGA Tour who worked near as hard as I did in golf. It's the toughest game I ever tackled. — Babe Didrikson Zaharias

The sure path to tomorrow was plotted in a manger and paved on a cross. And although this sturdy byway is mine for the taking, I have incessantly chosen lesser paths. And maybe it is time to realize that Christmas is a promise that I can walk through the world and never get lost in the woods. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I can beat any two players in this tournament by myself. If I need any help, I'll let you know. — Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Addiction makes love impossible. — Bell Hooks

She liked you.. You thought she was quietly discussing precalc, when she was clearly talking about having hot sex with you. Which is why you need me. — John Green

Golf is a game of coordination, rhythm, and grace; women have these to a high degree. — Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Talk openly about important issues like money, sex, and religion. They can affect your life and happiness a great deal. Especially when it comes to cults. — Jesse Petersen

The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume - that is, the cross is not a defeat, but the victory of our God. — Stanley Hauerwas

Because Ove, as Parvaneh had soon realized, was the sort of man who, when he was not quite certain where he was going, just carried on walking straight ahead, convinced that the road would eventually fall into line. — Fredrik Backman

Good golf is easier to play-and far more pleasant-than bad golf. — Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Christians know that Christianity is simply extended training in dying early. That is what we have always been about. — Stanley Hauerwas

I just hitch up my girdle and let 'er fly. — Babe Didrikson Zaharias

There are no shortcuts to good golf. The better players realize this. — Babe Didrikson Zaharias

We usually don't realize the thing that is defining our identity until that thing is taken away. — Tim Hiller

I expect to play golf until I am 90-even longer if anybody figures out a way to swing a club from a rocking chair. — Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Once colon cancer becomes symptomatic, nine times out of ten it is too late. — Kevin Richardson

Everybody can identify with somebody in the Hundred Acre Wood. — Jim Cummings

Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?' — Brian Tracy

As your golf improves, your concentration will improve with it. — Babe Didrikson Zaharias

People walk in the door because they need you to take care of them
to feed them or fix them. — Wally Lamb