John Henry Taylor quotes

John Henry Taylor quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Always remember that however good you may be, the game is your master.”
-- John Henry Taylor

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“Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behaviour not otherwise excusable.”
“Little Bobby Jones of Atlanta is really a fine player, and shows every indication of becoming a tremendous great one, once he is master of himself, which must come with maturity.”
“Once you have your practice and you have your mechanics, you must be able to go out there and trust your mechanics.”
“It's so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying "Shhh" and not moving a muscle. Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.”
“I spend time with my family. I have got two daughters who are too young to know their Dad's a footballer. They just want to play with their Dad. I like to play golf, too, but apart from that, that's me, I'm afraid.”
“Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. Thatâ€™s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I canâ€™t really explain why.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.305, Simon and Schuster
“The pressure I put on myself is the only pressure I'm feeling once I get into the game.”
“The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.”

Source : "To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue" edited by Ellen Land-Weber, Part I, Holland, Ch. 1, (p. 48), 2000.
“I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.”
“You always have to make positive choices as an actor, even when you're playing someone who may not be doing the best things.”

Source : Source: www.justjared.com

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