The Gigantic Book of Golf Quotations
By (Author) Jim Apfelbaum
Foreword by Arnold Palmer
Skyhorse Publishing
Skyhorse Publishing
17th May 2007
United States
General
Non Fiction
Quotations, proverbs and sayings
796.352
Hardback
800
Width 191mm, Height 235mm, Spine 203mm
1719g
An adage about sports writing says,"The smaller the ball, the better the writing." The 3,000+ quotations that make upThe Gigantic Book of Golf Quotationsprove that saying true. Quotes range from the hilarious ("It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course"Hank Aaron) to the thought-provoking ("The most important shot in golf is the next one"Ben Hogan). These are just some of the names included: Mitch Albom, Winston Churchill, Bing Crosby, John Daly, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John Feinstein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Floyd, Gerald Ford, Ernest Hemingway, Ben Hogan, Bob Hope, Samuel L. Jackson, Bobby Jones, Michael Jordan, Bill Murray, Byron Nelson, Jack Nicklaus, P.J. O'Rourke, Harvey Penick, George Plimpton, Rick Reilly, Frank Sinatra, Annika Sorenstam, John Updike, Kathy Whitworth, Tiger Woods...and hundreds more! This is the ultimate gift book for every golferand everyone who's lucky enough to own it will browse through again and again.
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