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Thomas Boswell has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I may be the only golfer never to have broken a single putter, if you don't count the one I twisted into…
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At its best, the US Open demands straight drives, crisp iron shots, brilliant chipping and putting, and strategic position play. Plus the…
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Some things cannont possibly happen, because they are both too improbable and too perfect. The U.S. hockey team cannot beat the Russians…
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When you fall in love with golf, you seldom fall easy. Itʹs obsession at first sight.
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When life is suddenly more serious more of the time, there is also more need for it to be fun at least…
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In and of itself, sports may be trivial, but as a symbol of the American way of life, it has enormous weight.…
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Terrorism drives out all normal human activity before it, defining life in its own sick terms, if it can. So, a baseball…
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Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way.…
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Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its…
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A good umpire, like a good FBI agent, is never noticed if he is doing his job.
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Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.
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I think baseball is a great support to people who have emotional voids, gaps, emotional difficulties. That is to say: all of…
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The great Jack Nicklaus summed things up neatly during a charity match on the Old Course at St. Andrews where he and…
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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Nobody ever heard Jack Nicklaus say "I don't know" about anything.
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The only equivalent plunge from genius I could think of was Ernest Hemmingway's tragic loss of ability to write. Hemmingway got up…
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The real key to Jack's [Nicklaus] success was his fantastic ability to score. His drives sometimes went into the rough, but he…
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[Jack Nicklaus] was the first to bring in course management. He could go to a course and tell you within one stroke…
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Some things cannont possibly happen, because they are both too improbable and too perfect. The U.S. hockey team cannot beat the Russians…
— Thomas Boswell
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Then Lee Trevino and Jack Nicklaus come in. I'll caddie for Jack.
— Chi Chi Rodriguez
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When Nicklaus plays wells well, he wins. When he plays badly, he finishes second. When he plays terribly, he finishes third.
— Johnny Miller
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I grew up watching Lee Trevino, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer.
— Molly Sims
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Some golfers fantasize about playing in a foursome with Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Sam Snead. The way I hit I'd rather…
— Bruce Lansky
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...said Nicklaus, 'was a brotherhood, I suppose'.
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