“Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.”

—  Alice Cooper

On the game of Golf in an interview with Nick Harper http://sport.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1093850,00.html in The Guardian (28 November 2003).

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