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Any favorite quotes, i have a few so will start this thread.

The ink of a scholar is worth a thousand times more than the blood of a martyr. – lupe fiasco

Abandon All Hope, All Ye Who Enter Here

 

“There is nothing patriotic about hating your country, or pretending that you can love your country but despise your government.”

Bill Clinton, 5 May 1995

"A star that shines twice as bright burns twice as fast." - In memory of Greg Moore

Racinfarmer will be signing autographs at the mall from 3 to 5.

I'll put a bullet in your ass 'cuz its the American way!

 

NIce one. Can’t imagine old GW coming out with anything like that

Abandon All Hope, All Ye Who Enter Here

 

Pretty sure there is already a quotes topic that was doing the rounds a few months ago… can anyone track it down…?

Reverse every natural instinct you have and do just the opposite of what you are inclined to do and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing. - BEN HOGAN, POWER GOLF

 

‘Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than will eighteen years of dealing with him across a desk.’

 

‘Man blames fate for other accidents but feels personally responsible for a hole-in-one.’

 

“Everything is everything.
But some things aren’t everything.
And I call those things,
Nothing”
Theophilus P. Wildebeest (aka Lenny Henry)

A bad day at golf is better than a good day at work.

 

“They’re going to fix all our problems if they have to spend every dollar you have to do it.” – Richard Jeni on limousine liberals

“On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit. And you then go for this limit and you touch this limit, and you think, ‘Okay, this is the limit’. And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.” – Ayrton Senna

"A star that shines twice as bright burns twice as fast." - In memory of Greg Moore

Racinfarmer will be signing autographs at the mall from 3 to 5.

I'll put a bullet in your ass 'cuz its the American way!

 

“Work is for people who don’t know how to play golf!”

100% perfect is a sad neurotic state of mind. Better than yesterday is saner. - Dart, 2008.

http://www.golflink.com.au/...



 

‘You can’t go into a shop and buy a good golf game.’

 

‘The best wood in most amateurs’ bags is the pencil.’

 

‘Ice Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.’ – Tiger Woods

 

‘Golf is not just an exercise; it’s an adventure, a romance….....a Shakespeare play in which disaster and comedy are intertwined.’

 

‘You start to choke at the US Masters when you drive through the front gate.’ – Hale Irwin

 

‘A gimme can best be defined as an agreement between two golfers, neither of whom can putt very well.’

 

‘Last words are for people who haven’t said enough already’
- Groucho Marx.

‘Only two things in this world are infinite, the universe and peoples stupidity, and I’m not convinced about the universe’
- Albert Einstein.

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Hey racinfarmer how many times did you have to watch that clip of Senna at Monaco to get it all down? Quite a few I would think eh.

"Happiness is a long walk with your putter"- Greg Norman

 

Work is the curse of the drinking class.
—Oscar Wilde

The tool no longer absorbs our attention. Beyond and through the tool we are rediscovering nature as it was,
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

 

You can’t hit it 300m so FFS take a f!#$%g swing.
-me.

Home on The Range

 

‘Last words are for people who haven’t said enough already’
Groucho Marx.

‘Only two things in this world are infinite, the universe and peoples stupidity, and I’m not convinced about the universe’
Albert Einstein.

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Hey racinfarmer how many times did you have to watch that clip of Senna at Monaco to get it all down? Quite a few I would think eh.

Not once, I’ve had it taped to the wall of my race trailers for years. I just typed in some of the key words and cut and pasted into here. I have watched that clip before, and at the very end, where he pauses, then says you can fly very high, it just sends chills down my spine.

"A star that shines twice as bright burns twice as fast." - In memory of Greg Moore

Racinfarmer will be signing autographs at the mall from 3 to 5.

I'll put a bullet in your ass 'cuz its the American way!

 

Yes he flew very high, right up until he hit the armco at Imola. He was definitely one of a kind, and there was a lot to learn from him, both good and bad.

"Happiness is a long walk with your putter"- Greg Norman

 

Dennis Cometti, AFL commentator:

“Barry Hall is coming off the ground after that nasty head clash, and his forehead is quickly becoming an eighthead.”

“I wonder what the team psychologist will make of that. Tuck dropped the mark and immediately shouted out his own surname.”

Terry Pratchett:
“Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate.”

 

” Me fail english? That’s unpossible!! ” – Ralph Wiggum

 

“Its hard to soar like an eagle when you’re surrounded by turkeys”

Anon

Its better to stay silent and look a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt

- Mark Twain

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land,or opened a new heaven to the human spirit

- Helen Keller

 

looking for that Senna quote I came across a site devoted to Murray Walker.

My favourite so far:

“So Bernie [Ecclestone], in the seventeen years since you bought McLaren, which of your many achievements do you think was the most memorable ?” Bernie Answers, “Well I don’t remember buying McLaren.” [Bernie Ecclestone used to own the Brabham team].

Its better to stay silent and look a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt

- Mark Twain

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land,or opened a new heaven to the human spirit

- Helen Keller

 

more from Murray haha

“This is an interesting circuit because it has inclines, and not just up, but down as well.”

“Only a few more laps to go and then the action will begin, unless this is the action, which it is.”

“This has been a great season for Nelson Piquet, as he is now known, and always has been”

“And the first five places are filled by five different cars.”

Its better to stay silent and look a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt

- Mark Twain

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land,or opened a new heaven to the human spirit

- Helen Keller

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