Julius Boros quotes

“Swing easy and hit hard.”
-- Julius Boros

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“Retire to what? I'm a golfer and a fisherman. I've got no place to retire to.”
-- Julius Boros

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“By the time you get to your ball, if you don't know what to do with it, try another sport.”
-- Julius Boros

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“Retire to what? I already play golf and fish for a living.”
-- Julius Boros

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“The putter looks like a bunch of nuts and bolts welded together, but the ball goes in the hole.”
-- Julius Boros

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“Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. 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 behavior not otherwise excusable.”

“I didn't realize at the moment exactly what I had done...I only realized the enormity of it when I walked into the press room and got a long standing ovation.It wasn't until I came out of my daze that I began to appreciate my accomplishment.”

“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 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.

“To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and subtle series of highly unnatural movements, involving about sixty-four muscles, that result in a seemingly natural swing, taking two seconds to begin and end.”

Source : Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.62, Arcade Publishing

“What really swings is the music of the United States, Cuba, the Caribbean and vicinity, and, of course, Brazil. The rest is all waltzes.”

“Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.”

“Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.”

Source : Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.66, Publishdrive

“Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.”

Source : "Music To Your Ears" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. January 28, 2013.

“Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don't expect it to be easy or even noticed.”