“In sports, Vijay Singh wins the Masters golf tournament and is awarded the coveted green jacket, which is quickly snatched away by angry Buick executives and given to Tiger Woods.”
Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far) (2007)
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Source: My Years As Prime Minister (2007), Chapter Eight, Tales from the Nineteenth Hole, p. 198
“Golf always makes me so damned angry.”
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“Tournament chess is not relaxing. It's stressful, even if you win.”
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Cited in: . Brief Biographies of Inventors of Machines for the Manufacture of Textile .... (1863) p. xiv; Highlighted section cited in: Samuel Smiles Industrial biography; iron-workers and tool-makers http://books.google.com/books?id=5trBcaXuazgC&pg=PA170, (1864) p. 170
Context: Although it is not, abstractedly speaking, of importance to know who first made a most valuable experiment, or to what individual the community is indebted for the invention of the most useful machine, yet the sense of mankind has in this, as in several other things, been in direct opposition to frigid reasoning; and we are pleased with a recollection of benefits, and with rendering honour to the memory of those who bestowed them. Were public benefactors to be allowed to pass away like hewers of wood and drawers of water, without commemoration, genius and enterprise would be deprived of their most coveted distinction, and after-times would lose incentives to that emulation which urges us to cherish and practise what has been worthy of commendation or imitation in our forefathers; and to make their works, which may have served for a light and been useful to the age in which they lived, a guide and a spur to ourselves
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