Thomas Boswell Quotes - Page 2

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• When you fall in love with golf, you seldom fall easy. Itʹs obsession at first sight.

  Thomas Boswell

  Falling In Love, Golf, Sight

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• A good umpire, like a good FBI agent, is never noticed if he is doing his job.

  Thomas Boswell

  Jobs, Fbi Agents, Umpires

  Thomas Boswell (1984). “Why Time Begins on Opening Day”, Doubleday Books

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• I may be the only golfer never to have broken a single putter, if you don't count the one I twisted into a loop and threw into a bush.

  Thomas Boswell

  Golf, Broken, May

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• A major golf tournament is 40,000 sadists watching 144 masochists.

  Thomas Boswell

  Golf, Tournaments, Golf Tournaments

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• Of the big four, the PGA is the most fair and the least fun. Basically, it's just the US Open set up by nice, rather than nasty, fellows.

  Thomas Boswell

  Fun, Nice, Golf

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• A narrative voice with conviction is often hard to find. But not in baseball. The minors teach two lost American arts: how to chew tobacco and how to tell a story.

  Thomas Boswell

  Baseball, Art, Narrative Voice

  Thomas Boswell (1982). “How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game”, Doubleday

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• At its best, the US Open demands straight drives, crisp iron shots, brilliant chipping and putting, and strategic position play. Plus the patience of St. Francis and the will of Patton. At its worst, the Open eradicates the difference in ability between a Tom Purtzer and a Tom Watson and throws both in the same jail of high rough and high risk shots. This is the disturbing tendency in the Opens of the seventies and eighties, one which worries everyone in golf.

  Thomas Boswell

  Golf, Jail, Play

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