Golf Shorts: Par 2 [Hardcover]

Glenn Liebman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 11, 1998

"After I won, I asked my wife what she wanted. She said a divorce. I said I wasn't thinking of anything that expensive." -- Nick Faldo, after winning $1 million in a tournament "Do you mind if I play while you talk?" -- Seve Ballesteros, said laughingly while playing in front of a loud gallery "Golf is not a funeral, though both can be very sad affairs." -- Bernard Darwin "We had a small wager, but the outcome did not affect the Forbes rating." -- Warren Buffett, on playing golf with Bill Gates "At first, I said, 'Let's play for taxes.'" -- Michael Jordan, on playing golf with President Clinton "To lose a game is not a national calamity. This will act as a tonic all --around." -- Walter Hagen, after the United States lost the Ryder Cup

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Golf is a pretty funny game, especially if you don't play it, and if you do, a sense of humor is required to keep you from going batty. The beauty of this delightfully wry, witty, and often wise collection of quips and quibbles is that you can pretty much drop in anywhere and emerge with just enough perspective, from just enough diverse sources, to keep your own relationship with the game from driving you nuts: "Golf is mostly a game of failures" (Tommy Armour); "Golf is not a funeral, though both can be very sad" (Bernard Darwin); "Golfers just love punishment. And that's where I come in" (architect Pete Dye); and "I tried. I swung. I missed. I never tried again" (Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn). Those are all from a section called "Golf Wisdom," but there is much more here than existential grousing--Chi Chi Rodriguez on Jack Nicklaus driving one into the woods: "That's where a bear belongs"; Bob Hope on Pebble Beach: "(It's) Alcatraz with grass"; and Sam Snead describing how he stays loose while swinging: "I try to feel oily." The way Golf Shorts greases the funny bone, it should help keep you relaxed, and your swing lubricated. --Jeff Silverman

From the Back Cover

"Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one's hand." -- Bobby Jones Lee Trevino and Chi Chi Rodriguez were not the only funny golfers who ever lived. Golf Shorts: Par 2 reveals more sparkling wit from golf's immortals as well as those mere mortals who play the game or attempt to play the game. This entirely new and vastly entertaining collection includes more of the greatest one-liners--from players past and present to virtually every twentieth-century president.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (October 11, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0809228653
• ISBN-13: 978-0809228652
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,048,066 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Thank you for viewing my page. I am the author of thirteen books on the funniest sports quotations (I also wrote one book about political quotes). The books are part of the Shorts Series (i.e.--Football Shorts, Basketball Shorts, Golf Shorts, etc.). These books have sold over 3000,000 copies worldwide.

I have very much enjoyed working on the books but I have taken a hiatus for the last several years to concentrate on other things (including coaching a basketball team for several years with a combined record of 5-30--the ironic part was that some of the kids were terrific players but unfortunately their coach was not exactly a Coach K clone). In recent months, I have started writing again and have some articles coming up in The Elks Magazine and Referee Magazine. Of course, the focus of the articles are on quotes. I have also created a blog. The site of the blog is http://sportsquotation.blogspot.com/

I have always loved how quotes can both inspire and make people laugh. My blog is dedicated to look at sports quotes from a different angle (ie.---Greatest Sports Quotes about Cats, Greatest Sports Quotes about Cookies, Greatest Bruce Willis Sports Quotes, etc.). It also provides me with an opportunity to vent which is important for us pseudo Type A (I'm more like a B-Plus) personalities.

Feel free to contact me any time and I hope you have an opportunity to read some of the books. The feedback I have gotten over the years is overwhelmingly positive. Of course, even though they are not my words, I do take fulll credit.
Thank you, Glenn

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great from beginning to end, December 27, 2001

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glenn liebman (Albany, N.Y.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Golf Shorts: Par 2 (Hardcover)

This book was laugh out loud funny featuring the funniest one liners from golf's all time greats and not so greats. From Chi Chi Rodriguez to Tiger Woods--this book captures all their greatest quotes. Of course I'm biased--I am the author. If you would like more info about this book or any of my other books, please feel free to contact me at glennliebman.com. Thank you and enjoy the book.