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«I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to hit a golf ball.»
«Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves to have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his rapt ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel ploughs air»
«It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways.»
«I played with Tiger [Woods], and I probably felt like you would be out there with me. Tiger is getting it by me about 50 or 60 yards, so it makes you inferior with your ability to hit the ball.»
«He hits the ball 130 yards and his jewelry goes 150.»
«Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.»
Author: Indian Proverb
| Keywords:
carriage, carriages, elephant, Elephant Man, The Elephant Man, yards
«Years ago I had a 1-iron I could hit 260 yards through a doorway. Now I can hit it through the keyhole.»
Author: Lee Trevino
(Golfer)
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Golf
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doorway, doorways, keyhole, keyholes, Through the Keyhole, yards
«The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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collected, dry rot, here and there, liable, luxuriant, man of science, moss, mosses, public works, rot, sprout, sprouting, timber, yards
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