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  • Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty. -- Harry Vardon
  • The person I fear most in the last two rounds is myself. -- Tom Watson
  • All work done mindfully rounds us out, helps complete us as persons. -- Marsha Sinetar
  • Why waltz with a guy for 10 rounds if you can knock him out in one? -- Rocky Marciano
  • You know, if you need 100 rounds to kill a deer, maybe hunting isn't your sport. -- Elayne Boosler
  • I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness. -- Wilfred Owen
  • There are so many things that have evolved since I wrestled. They don't have periods anymore. They have rounds... it confuses the younger demographic. -- Kurt Angle
  • I think I went on a nice winning streak of about 20 fights until I fought Jorge Reyes and he stopped me in 6 rounds after I punched myself out. -- Alexis Arguello
  • I always save a few special outfits for the final rounds of a tournament, because they put me in a more positive mindset and I then make better decisions. -- Camilo Villegas
  • In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically. -- Pete Sampras
  • My trainer don't tell me nothing between rounds. I don't allow him to. I fight the fight. All I want to know is did I win the round. It's too late for advice. -- Muhammad Ali
  • I have been known to play a few rounds in my time. I'm not obsessive; I don't play in the dark, but even that's not out of the question because Stevie Wonder is also a golfer. -- Jasper Carrott
  • If you need more than 10 rounds to hunt, and some argue they hunt with that many rounds, you shouldn't be hunting. If you can't get the deer in 3 shots, you shouldn't be hunting. You are an embarrassment. -- Joe Biden
  • I learned that round four of a major is really not too much different than rounds one through three. I didn't keep to my game plan in the '08 U.S. Women's Open for the final round. That won't happen again! -- Paula Creamer
  • As a director, I'm not the one animating every frame, every shot. I'm moving around like a surgeon on rounds, or a farmer checking in on all the plants being grown, pruning and adjusting. For me, it's a very exciting job. -- Henry Selick
  • I kind of got my big break with 'The Princess Diaries' and during the press rounds for that everyone asked me: 'Did you always want to be a princess growing up?' And the truth was, no I wanted to be Catwoman. -- Anne Hathaway
  • I guess what was going to come back came back on Monday. Of course now I've played a different golf course. I've played two practice rounds and two tournament rounds all kind of the same and now today I've played a different golf course. -- Ray Floyd
  • The Bible has been through millions of rounds of exegesis and interpretation, but it hasn't been until quite recently that it's been taken as the absolute truth, to the point where people expect it to inform ideas about biology and life on this planet. -- Walter Kirn
  • My dad was a physician. As a kid, I remember driving around with him on weekends so he could do his rounds at the hospital and talk to patients. We'd spend time in the car talking about what was going on with them, their stories. -- Pierre Omidyar
  • Boot Camp was great and very interesting. You got to use live rounds of ammunition and got to do a lot of crawling around with live rounds flying around you, so you really had to learn to keep your ass down - everything down for that matter. -- Mel Gibson
  • When I step into the ring with someone, this has got to be their vacation spot, but my home turf. So I go the opposite side seven rounds doing the same thing. Skipping, skipping, skipping. Then I go seven rounds going both ways. Skip to the left, skip to the right. -- George Foreman
  • Getting up to Zaire - getting ready to fight Muhammad Ali - I thought this will be a matter of just a little exercise. I'll probably knock him out in three rounds. Two, three - maybe three and a half rounds. That was the most confidence I had in my whole life. -- George Foreman
  • There were days I could barely struggle into a size 46 or 48, months of larges and XXLs, and endless rounds of leggings with the elastic at the waist stretched to its limit and beyond - topped with the fashion equivalent of a tea cozy. And always black, because I was in mourning for my slimmer self. -- Carrie Fisher
  • I plan my golf outfits for the tournaments, I recycle some for the practice rounds, but I always have new ideas for my golf attire, and I like to dress nice after the rounds, so I have to bring all my heels. It's terrible. The worst part about being on tour is living out of a suitcase. -- Paula Creamer
  • There are 30,000 days in your life. When I was 24, I realized I'm almost 9,000 days down. There are no warm-ups, no practice rounds, no reset buttons. Your biggest risk isn't failing, it's getting too comfortable. Every day, we're writing a few more words of a story. I wanted my story to be an adventure and that's made all the difference. -- Drew Houston
  • I have a phenomenal team behind me who have helped get me here and I, along with them, will now put everything we can into the final few weeks of preparations before the Olympic Games, where I am aiming to race well, work well through the rounds, post good times and maybe even a personal best time on the biggest stage of them all. -- Oscar Pistorius
  • Open afresh your rounds of starry folds, Ye ardent Marigolds. -- John Keats
  • A couple of hours of practice is worth ten sloppy rounds. -- Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  • I have played a handful of rounds of golf with Wayne Gretzky. -- Tom Glavine
  • Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • One hundred rounds do not constitute fire power. One hit constitutes fire power. -- Merritt A. Edson
  • I'm confident that I can steal rounds by getting inside and throwing punches. -- Keith Thurman
  • I said that I was gonna smash him in three rounds, and that's what I did. -- David Haye
  • Two people can have a middling day, but one rounds up and the other rounds down. -- Robert Breault
  • Tired? I don't think so. I'm in such good shape that I could box even 25 rounds. -- Vitali Klitschko
  • A fighter can condition his body to go hard certain rounds, then to coast certain rounds. -- Muhammad Ali
  • And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires. -- William Blake
  • Boxing's all about getting the job done as quickly as possible, whether it takes 10 or 15 or 20 rounds. -- Frank Bruno
  • I'm prepared for 12 rounds. I'll be very happy with anything else, but I'm prepared for 12 or 15 rounds. -- Jan Zaveck
  • I don't remember too many rounds where you get shots given to you. Usually, ones are taken away. -- Stuart Appleby
  • Selfliss giving rounds the edges in spiritual practice. Many people can meditate very well but they're still very egotistical. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • Selfliss giving rounds the edges in spiritual practice. Many people can meditate very well but they're still very egotistical. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • Middle class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones. -- Neal Stephenson
  • The companies I have traditionally seen do best over the long term had lead investors for their seed rounds -- Keith Rabois
  • You have to go the rounds from individual to individual in order to gather the totality of the race. -- Friedrich Schiller
  • Never slouch as doing so compresses the lungs, overcrowds other vital organs, rounds the back, and throws you off balance. -- Joseph Pilates
  • Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite, All are on their rounds tonight; In the wan moon's silver ray, Thrives their helter-skelter play. -- Joel Benton
  • Over the first three rounds you're playing the course. In the final round, if you're in contention, you're playing the man. -- Jack Nicklaus
  • It's a fun thing to do: Go to a shooting range with a buddy, knock off a few rounds, release stress. -- Laurie Holden
  • I'm devastated with the injury but I've proved my heart and skill to everyone by fighting one handed for eight rounds. -- Joe Calzaghe
  • I've played with Mardy Fish a lot. Played with him, I think, two years ago in one of the weekend rounds. -- Stephen Curry
  • The fact is that the amount of money startups raise in their seed and Series A rounds is inversely correlated with success -- Fred Wilson
  • And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love') -- William Blake
  • A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early rounds. -- Clive James
  • Giving Papa time to think, as Arty put it, was like pumping random rounds into a fireworks factory. The odds favored dramatic results. -- Katherine Dunn
  • For sheer strength of character, I wouldn't have dared to cross swords with Callas. I would rather have gone six rounds with Jack Dempsey. -- John Huston
  • I realized that the secret to golf isn't how low you shoot when it's going good, it's how to make your bad rounds better. -- Notah Begay III
  • I dont believe you need high capacity magazines to go hunt. If you have to use 100 rounds to shoot a deer, youre in trouble. -- Bob Menendez
  • Even little Herley, who couldn't have been more than eight, looked like he could go six rounds with Chuck Norris without breaking a sweat. -- Rick Riordan
  • I hold that Christian grace abounds Where charity is seen; that when We climb to heaven, 'tis on the rounds Of love to men. -- Alice Cary
  • Belts are immaterial. What's material to me is who have you fought, how many rounds have you fought, how many fights have you fought. -- Bonnie Canino
  • Both of them can get it. They can line up. I'll fight both of them in one night, and I bet it won't go 12 rounds. -- Adrien Broner
  • Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives. -- Seneca the Younger
  • He looked as if he'd got a lot of pleasure out of going ten rounds with your grandmother and making sure she went the whole distance. -- Richard Brautigan
  • Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic. -- Eric Allin Cornell
  • You want to know my definition of gun control? Being able to stand there at 25 meters and put two rounds in the same hole. That's gun control. -- Jesse Ventura
  • Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Since last year I've been making the rounds talking to just about anyone who'll listen about this opportunity to re-establish a manufacturing base in the U.S. -- Bill Simon
  • Little late for that now. I don't think an "?Oops, my bad, my weapon accidentally misfired two dozen rounds' will work to get me out of this. (Devyn) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • I think we have arrived at the stage where we are making it too complicated. I know guys who can't play two rounds before running to their teachers. -- Vijay Singh
  • I can tell you from personal experience it gets a little tiring having to make the rounds on cable shows to explain 'what's up with black folks.' -- John Ridley
  • You don't need an AR-15. It's harder to aim, it's harder to use, and in fact, you don't need 30 rounds to protect yourself. Buy a shotgun. Buy a shotgun. -- Joe
  • We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it's legal to hunt humans with 15-round, 30-round, even 150-round magazines. -- Dianne Feinstein
  • Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service] -- Herodotus
  • After two rounds of chemo, I've started to notice, slowly, but surely, my hair has started to appear more regularly in my shower drain, sink drain, pillowcase and comb. -- Amy Robach
  • In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically -- Pete Sampras
  • I had very low expectations. Honestly, I think I had 11 rounds of golf the entire year in before this tournament, and I had hit balls maybe four or five times. -- Trent Dilfer
  • You're playing competitive, and it's always better to play four competitive rounds than it is two because you sit there for a weekend and then you start all over again. -- John Daly
  • Sean Chen has been an audience favorite from the early rounds. With his floppy hair and outstanding stage presence combined with an extraordinary technique and musicianship, this is little wonder. -- Gregory Isaacs
  • Activity is not achievement. It is not enough to rush about beginning a lot of things and keeping busy. A well-spent life is one that rounds out what it has begun. -- Eknath Easwaran
  • Munificent nature follows the methods of the divine and true, and rounds all things to her perfect law. While nations are convulsed with blood and violence, how quietly the grass grows. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
  • When you know yourself that you've come through preparation injury free and you've done everything, you've done the work in the gym and the rounds of sparring, it fills you with confidence. -- Joe Calzaghe
  • The sun was set; the night came on apace, And falling dews bewet around the place; The bat takes airy rounds on leathern wings, And the hoarse owl his woeful dirges sings. -- John Gay
  • You play the golf course just like you played it in your practice rounds and you stick to your game plan and just try to get whatever you can out of it. -- Stewart Cink
  • At the end of 10 rounds, what you got, unless you have a knockout, of course, and so what you are doing is you are really packaging aggression in its most palatable form. -- Ferdie Pacheco
  • Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying~out of gardens. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The idea which man forms of beauty imprints itself throughout his attire, rumples or stiffens his garments, rounds off or aligns his gestures, and, finally, even subtly penetrates the features of his face. -- Charles Baudelaire
  • As for me, I always train for 12 rounds just in case. I don't train for three, four, one, or 10 rounds. I have to train for 12 because you never know what will happen that night. -- Manny Pacquiao
  • Liston is like most big bullies, if you can stay away and make him miss for a few rounds he'll get frustrated. Once you strip away that feeling of invincibility, he can be had. -- Rocky Marciano
  • People are hurting out there, perhaps they are ready to start a conversation about whether an AR-15 belongs in the hands of a citizen, whether a citizen should be able 6,000 rounds on the internet. -- Brian Williams
  • We were reminded first-hand of the work that still needs to be done in Iraq on the security front when insurgents fired five rounds into the base while we were still meeting with the nurses. -- Jon Porter
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