Toney Penna quotes

“Everybody has two swings: the one he uses during the last three holes of a tournament and the one he uses the rest of the time.”
-- Toney Penna

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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.”

“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 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.

“I've come to realize that I perform best when I'm letting my subconscious mind hit the ball and my conscious mind is otherwise occupied.”

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

Source : Interview with Nick Harper, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2004.

“I've got two girls. I like to play golf. Apart from that there's not a lot goes on in my life. So I am boring, aren't I?”

“I can hit it farther on the moon. But actually, my swing is better here on Earth.”

Source : "Lunar-Golfer Shepard Takes Swings In Tourney". The Orlando Sentinel, p. A2, August 13, 1992.

“Swing your swing. I know, I did.”

“Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.”

Source : A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial

“My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.”