“It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.”

— Hank Aaron

Source: In response to Jack Nicklaus' query, "What kind of golfer are you?"; as quoted in "Aaron Has Career in Day" by the Associated Press, in The Atlanta Constitution (February 23, 1971)

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Retired American baseball player 1934

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