Top 25 Quotes by Thomas Boswell of 32 - Page 2

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

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

Golf, Tournaments, Golf Tournaments

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

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

Baseball is religion without the mischief.

Thomas Boswell

Baseball, Mischief

"Ask Boswell: Redskins, Nationals and Washington sports". Live chat, live.washingtonpost.com. October 6, 2014.

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

Thomas Boswell

Falling In Love, Golf, Sight

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