Al Barkow quotes

  • The best stroked putt in a lifetime does not bring the aesthetic satisfaction of a perfectly hit wood or iron shot. There is nothing to match the whoosh and soar, the almost magical flight of a beautifully hit drive or 5-iron.
    -- Al Barkow

    #Golf #Iron #Doe

  • The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.

  • Extremely large greens breed slovenly play. When any green ceases to command respect, it loses its value as a test of that rarest of all strokes, the shot home.

  • I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.

  • I always wanted to be a golfer, only I realised that if I'd played golf I would have been skint.

  • 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.

  • If there is any one thing most needed in this time of tumult and frustration, when men and women and youth and young adults are desperately seeking for answers to the problems which afflict mankind, it is an "iron rod" as a safe guide along the straight path on the way to eternal life, amidst the strange and devious roadways that would eventually lead to destruction and to the ruin of all that is "virtuous, lovely, or of good report."

  • There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.

  • Let's stop somebody from doing something! Everybody does too much.

  • While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.

  • She who means no mischief does it all.