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Ocupation: Golfer

Life: b. November 1, 1935

Birthday: November 1

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It's a marriage. If I had to choose between my wife and my putter, well, I'd miss her.

Topics: Golf, Wife, Missing

quote the more i work and practice the luckier i seem to get gary player Quotes

When you play the game for fun, it's fun. When you play it for a living, it's a game of sorrows.

Topics: Fun, Golf, Games

We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.

Topics: Winning, Reality, Success Or Failure

You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.

Topics: Golf, Natural, Golfers, Inspirational Golf

Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.

source: - "The Gigantic Book of Golf Quotations". Book edited by Jim Apfelbaum, 2007.

Topics: Golf, Years, Games, Inspirational Golf, Playing Golf

Simply by making the effort to start something, you will be miles ahead of almost everyone else.

source: - Gary Player (2001). “The Golfer's Guide to the Meaning of Life: Lessons I've Learned from My Life on the Links”, Rodale Books

Topics: Effort, Miles

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Work, Motivational Bodybuilding, Luck And Hard Work

The closer you can live to being a vegetarian the better.

Topics: Vegetarian

If you are going to keep company with me, don't embarrass me.

Topics: Company

The ideal build for a golfer would be strong hands, big forearms, thin neck, big thighs and a flat chest. He'd look like Popeye.

Topics: Strong, Golf, Hands, Popeye, Strong Hands

I am tired of all these golfers who are happy with second place. The only one who will like you if you come in second place is your wife and your dog. And that is only if you have a good wife and a good dog.

Topics: Dog, Tired, Golf, Second Place, Good Wife

I try to work with God as a partner.

Topics: Golf, Trying, Partners

There is absolutely nothing humorous at the Masters. Here, small dogs do not bark and babies do not cry.

Topics: Dog, Baby, Humorous, Absolutely Nothing, Small Dogs

To succeed in life one must have determination and must be prepared to suffer during the process. If one isn't prepared to suffer during adversities, I don't really see how he can be successful.

Topics: Determination, Adversity, Successful

Perhaps the most important thing I can tell you about equipment is to experiment and keep an open mind.

Topics: Golf, Mind, Important

I got so strong I felt like a giant.....When I stood on the tee with Arnold and Jack, I was tiny compared to them. But I never believed they were bigger than me. So the mind is so fascinating.

Topics: Strong, Golf, Mind, Tees

You can always speak with great authority on how well you played today, but never on how you'll play tomorrow.

Topics: Golf, Play, Today, Great Author

I wish I could put a patent on that thing. That was so straight I had to lean over sideways to see the flag!

Topics: Wish, Patents, Flags

The player who expects a lesson to 'take' without subsequent practice just isn't being honest with himself or fair to his professional.

source: - Gary Player (1962). “Golf Secrets”

Topics: Player, Practice, Lessons

The pressure gets worse the older you get. The hole starts to look the size of a Bayer aspirin.

Topics: Looks, Aspirin, Pressure

Enjoy the game. Happy golf is good golf.

Topics: Golf, Games, Enjoy, Good Golf

The more I work and practice, the luckier I seem to get.

Topics: Education, Practice, Mathematics

Golf is a puzzle without an answer.

Topics: Golf, Answers, Puzzles

A strong mind is one of the key components that separates the great from the good.

Topics: Strong, Golf, Keys, Strong Mind

Everyone wants to be known as a great striker of the ball for some reason. Nobody wants to be called a lucky, one-putting s.o.b.

Topics: Golf, Lucky, Balls, Strikers

I've traveled more than any human being who's ever lived.

Topics: Humans

If you think your hands are more important in your golf swing than your legs, try walking a hole on your hands.

Topics: Golf, Thinking, Swings

I've studied golf for almost 50 years now and know a hell of a lot about nothing.

Topics: Golf, Years, Hell

If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.

Topics: Golf, Heaven, Want, Tees, Augusta

That loss was to breed an independence, a toughness of spirit, and an awareness of adversity and discipline that have never left me,.

Topics: Adversity, Loss, Discipline

Each shot is important.

Topics: Important, Shots

Golf asks something of a man. It makes one loathe mediocrity. It seems to say, "If you are going to keep company with me, don't embarrass me.

Topics: Golf, Men, Mediocrity

I always said that if they have a golf course like this in heaven, I want to be the head pro.

Topics: Golf, Heaven, Want

The more I practise, the luckier I become

The first time I ever saw Arnold Palmer, I said, There's a star. The first time I saw Jack Nicklaus, I said, Superstar. I feel the same way about Tiger Woods.

Topics: Sports, Stars, Way

First, educate yourself about what a vegan diet entails and why it is beneficial to your health. You need to understand and embrace the philosophy or you will not be able to make such a drastic dietary change. Secondly, make the change over time. Don't try and "go cold turkey"; you will shock your system and you will develop cravings that you may not be able to fight off. If you take your time and let your body adjust you will be eating a completely different diet before you realize it.

source: - Source: blog.vegansa.com

Topics: Philosophy, Fighting, Turkeys, Changes Over Time, Cold Turkey

I think that if people would be willing to grow some of their own food or eat locally grown organic foods on a regular basis we could significantly decrease the amount of harmful chemicals we pump into our soil every day.

source: - Source: blog.vegansa.com

Topics: Organic Food

There are many people who enjoy animal based foods and who have no interest in changing the way they eat. And as you correctly pointed out, animal products are an integral part of some ethnic groups and societies and it would be nearly impossible for them to change thousands of years of traditional eating habits.

source: - Source: blog.vegansa.com

Topics: Eating Habits, Ethnic Groups

I rarely eat red meat and only occasionally eat fish. Plant based foods are my main source of nutrition along with nuts, fruits, brown breads and grains.

source: - Source: blog.vegansa.com

Topics: Red Meat

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