Bruce McCall quotes

“Not even Barbra Streisand celebrates herself as tirelessly as golf celebrates itself.”
-- Bruce McCall

#Golf Quotes #Celebrate Quotes #Streisand Quotes

“It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification.”
-- Bruce McCall

#Dream Quotes #Golf Quotes #Self Quotes

“No game designed to be played with the aid of personal servants by right-handed men who can't even bring along their dogs can be entirely good for the soul.”
-- Bruce McCall

#Dog Quotes #Golf Quotes #Men Quotes

“Here's a simple way to abolish golf's elitist and exclusionary image and make it a truly all-American sport: ditch that fifties-Republican-martini-drinker's green Brooks Brothers-style sport jacket and make the winner of the Masters slip on something in, say, black leather with plenty of metal studs.”
-- Bruce McCall

#Sports Quotes #Brother Quotes #Golf Quotes

“I'm a great admirer of cartoons, because I can't do cartoons.”
-- Bruce McCall

Source : "Tuning In to the Absurd". Interview with The New Yorker, www.newyorker.com. May 20, 2002.

#Cartoon Quotes #Admirer Quotes #Because I Can Quotes

“You can parody almost anything.”
-- Bruce McCall

Source : "Tuning In to the Absurd". New Yorker Interview, www.newyorker.com. May 20, 2002.

#Parody Quotes

“Six Secrets to Being a Successful Humorist 1. Be scared, unhappy, and an outcast as a kid. 2. Drop out of high school. 3. Spend time alone. 4. Don't take a comedy course. 5. Read other humorists but don't worship them. 6. Don't get your hopes up.”
-- Bruce McCall

#Funny Quotes #School Quotes #Humor Quotes

“If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a single phrase, that phrase would probably be "Oh, shut up." The Americans talked too much, mainly about themselves. Their torrid love affair with their own history and legend exceeded-painfully-the quasi-British Canadian idea of modesty and self-restraint. ... They were forever busting their buttons in spasms of insufferable yahoo pride or all too publicly agonizing over their crises.”
-- Bruce McCall

Source : Bruce McCall (1999). “Thin Ice: Coming of Age in Canada”, Vintage

#Attitude Quotes #Pride Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“My ball is in a bunch of fern, A jolly place to be; An angry man is close astern- He waves his club at me. Well, let him wave-the sky is blue; Go on, old ball, we are but two-We may be down in three, Or nine-or ten-or twenty-five-It matters not; to be alive, Is good enough for me.”

Source : A.P. Herbert (2014). “Mild And Bitter”, p.20, House of Stratus

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

“If you've driven over to the gay section of Los Angeles, it's like a golf course... Real estate values go 'boom!'”

“I think dates considered super corny and cheesy - whether it's going bowling or miniature golf or something where you can be competitive and just have fun with each other - those always make the most memorable dates!”

Source : "Beautiful Wave Star Aimee Teegarden Talks Surfer Boys And More!". Interview with Kaitlin Menza, www.seventeen.com. May 12, 2012.

“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.”

“Unfortunately, the suit is so stiff, I can't do this with two hands, but I'm going to try a little sand-trap shot here.”

“Put on your yarmulkahHere comes HannukahSo much funnukahTo celebrate Hannukah”

“As Mr. Nagle so competently points out, almost no one uses Eiffel; in fact until recently there were only 9 users. But now a 10th person just started, so we are holding a conference, appropriately titled the TENTH Eiffel USER conference, to celebrate.”

“Find the good and celebrate it.”

“I celebrate masculinity when I'm onstage.”