Strokes Quotations

The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.

I have a tip that will take five strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.

It's about, I did talk about my life in broad strokes and what home meant to me in order to really explore the subject of home and can you go back and what that means for people in that sense of community that we've lost.

Being sensitive to the problem of women is just another symptom of the quality of movies: I don't think you can do anything that's very sensitive. Everything's sort of broad strokes and big gestures - adventure things that boys, guys want to see.

Since I retired, I very much enjoy watching Serena Williams play. While I was playing, she was one of the toughest players I ever faced. Her ground strokes are so solid, her serve is one of the most powerful in women's tennis, and mentally she is just so strong.

My focus had always been the on-side. My coach wanted me to work on the offside strokes since he was convinced of my ability and timing on the leg side. I worked hard and firmed up my defensive technique. I am happy getting runs all around the wicket now, and getting a lot of boundaries. No one calls me a 'leggie batsman' anymore.

I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.

Anyone who is drawn in broad strokes either negatively or positively is generally not very interesting to play.

To get discounts on some drugs, private insurers are willing to pay top prices for blockbuster pharmaceuticals like Vioxx, despite the fact that Vioxx was rumored to cause fatal strokes and heart attacks.

My mother died happily of a stroke in her seventies.

I'm constantly in fear of having a stroke.

I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me.

My father had several strokes and heart attacks. I was with him when he died, and it was a horrible death. He had been a very articulate man, and to lose that, never to be able to speak properly and to be unable to move - he had always been a very vigorous man, so to be in a wheelchair and mumbling - was terrible.

My ground strokes are my strength. I rely on them to produce some winners and some errors by the other player. I like coming into the net since I'm taller. But I have to work on my volleys.

One of the things I wanted to try to do is keep the training regimen as in the past. I don't think they've lost any strokes or steps since last year.

Let's say she's a 15-year-old boy playing in men's tournaments, in the Amateur Public Links and winning these matches, or coming within strokes of missing the cut in a PGA tournament. When I was 17 I couldn't come close to making a cut, and at the time I was doing very well in junior golf. I just can't believe any 15 year old, especially a young girl, could be doing what she's doing. I can't fathom it. It's just amazing.

Many patients who have had strokes don't interact with neighbors or community the way they used to,

She still hasn't played her best golf. I know she can shoot in (the) 30s. If she's more consistent on the green, she can shave five strokes off her score. She's the best iron player that we have. But she's still struggling with her putting stroke.

She's improved tremendously. Her ground strokes are the best on the team.

Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.

I am real pleased. Some of the teams ahead of us are ex-state champions with great tradition, and we are just eight strokes out of first.

I feel like I hit the ball pretty well, actually, ... I feel like I left a few strokes out there, but I drove (the ball) well, hit good iron shots, putted well (and) just felt connected.

I feel pretty good about our position faring with other schools. Every time we tee up, I like to think that we get better. As we go into tomorrow we look to shave some strokes here and there. Four scores in the 70s would be great.

If we shave a few strokes here and there in our short game, we should be right there. It's that close and that competitive in this league. Anyone can win.

I don't want my dad to tell me how to set the price. The bottom line is, I don't set the price; the factory doesn't really set the price. Who really sets the price? The guy on the street who strokes the check.

Basically we are just trying to get better communication as doubles teams and definitely work on getting more consistent on our serves and be able to come in and play some volleys at the net. Our ground strokes aren't looking too bad and the rest of the game is okay. But we are missing some opportunities that are showing up on the scoreboard for us.

To concentrate intensely for 4 and a half hours, that's too hard for me. Too tiring. I concentrate 'lo maximo' on the 'golpe,' the stroke, but between strokes I'm interacting with the crowd or laughing with my caddie, talking about the spectators, the cute girls.

Her shoe-button eyes and little smile with just a few lines - those are very simple strokes that convey many things to many people. Her little heart, originally a cardboard heart embedded in her chest and later printed on her clothing, is such a sweet touch.

Her strokes were so deep that I had to return them from well outside the court, making it hard for me to play my own game.

I am hoping we can get close to that this year and hopefully play a little bit smarter. And be able to play within our own game. Some of the them don't have the best strokes, but be able to play a game that they can win even though they don't have the fanciest strokes and foot work.

His strokes are looking great right now. His work ethic is phenomenal in practice.

Hopefully the results from this match will motivate our guys to work much harder. I was extremely pleased with Joey Russell's score today. He improved 12 strokes from his last match which I know will give him greater confidence.

Hopefully we can get her (Rhoads) more consistent with the irons and try to eliminate some of those strokes that kill a round.

I feel like I can find five shots today and probably five shots every day (to shave off her score). That's the way I look at things. I try to make a perfect round. I left a lot of strokes out there.

He has so dramatically improved. He's a very intelligent kid, one of the top students in his class. He works very hard at it. He's played all year-round this last year, gone to tournaments and worked hard. His mental toughness and some pretty good strokes have helped him climb the ladder.

Some of our freshmen are starting to come around and that's very encouraging. You know, some people may look at these losses now and think it's a down year of whatever, but I look at it as what we're doing now is definitely going to be a good building block for the future. We're starting to drop our score two or three strokes every match. If we can keep doing that, we're going to be all right.

Last year he had a really strong first serve -- if it went in. This year he is much more consistent with it. His backhand is also very strong this year as well, his ground strokes ... he's just a much more consistent player. I just see him getting better and improve every time I see him play.

I think everyone was shocked on how lopsided it was. We had players that were having to give a lot of strokes to players on their home course and still were able to win a lot of those matches.

Lander did a great job. He used all of his strokes and was so mentally prepared he jumped out really early. Atwood struggled a bit in the first set but opened up in the second.

Our goal next match is for each golfer to cut three to five strokes off. If we do that, it would show some great improvement.

Jon and Tim both admittedly didn't have their best game. Jon said he kept grinding all the way to the end. We say when you don't have your stuff you grind it out. Tim said he was four or five strokes over early and just kept grinding.

I'm so excited and ecstatic that we won our first match. Our first two rounds kind of set the tone. We were 20 strokes ahead when Kendra and Heather came in.

I think anyone that played left some strokes out on the course.

Other than those few holes, I had a lot of birdie chances. To be five under, blow four strokes, then get five strokes back is a pretty good way to end the day.

Our findings are particularly noteworthy in that aspirin's main beneficial effects appeared to be the reduction in the risk of stroke for women and reduction in the risk of heart attacks for men. While our analysis showed that aspirin may have different effects in men and women, the relatively small number of heart attacks among women and strokes among men suggest that more research is needed to better understand any differences in cardiovascular responses to aspirin.

It got me to looking at last year against this year. We're averaging 25 to 30 strokes less as a team per tournament. Last year, we won two or three tournaments. We're on pace, if not ahead, this year going into a few more stronger fields.

I thought the girls played outstanding today. I believe that most, if not all, shot a career best. We shot nearly 40 strokes better than we did Thursday night.

Today they kind of turned that performance around a little bit, ... That's a good sign of things to come, hopefully. That's really what we have to do if we're going to compete against some of the better A schools this year. We talked about not leaving strokes out on the course.

We have to keep a positive attitude. This is not golf, I don't get eight strokes a side and we level the playing field. There is a disparity in terms of talent.

We just didn't really play well. We gave a lot of strokes away along the greens. We just didn't seem to have real good intensity.

I was pleased that we cut the four strokes off our last team score. The Troy Country Club can be a tough course to play.

We do have to shave strokes off our game. We'll have to shoot consistently in the 70s if we want to do well this season and I think we can.

We can play better. If we can make up 10 strokes, we can do it. That's asking two strokes per man, and that's not asking a lot, so we're within striking distance.

We've had four tournaments this year, and, if we just have a couple breaks go our way, we'd be qualified for state already. We've been four or five strokes out every time, and that's not much when you have five golfers.

That was exhausting. The last two strokes I knew we had won it, it was close all the way. This race has been the main focus of the regatta for me. This is the one I wanted.

We set some goals in the fall and for the first time in my coaching career, I had to ask the team to reset them because they've shattered the previous ones. We set out to improve our team stroke average and I think we did that by five strokes and we've been in the top five in nearly every event we've competed in with a shot to win each of them.

The finishing stroke of all sorrow.

We have a pretty good chance because our top two guys were four or five strokes over their averages. If we play normal, we have a great shot.

When I moved to Beijing in 2005 to write, I was accustomed to hearing the story of China's transformation told in vast, sweeping strokes - involving one fifth of humanity and great pivots of politics and economics.

To me, writing and composing are much more like painting, about colors and brushes; I don't use a computer when I write, and I don't use a piano. I'm at a desk writing, and it's very broad strokes and notes as colors on a palette.

We're down to the final strokes on that, but that doesn't impede this deal with the city, because we have reiterated our pledge to cover any overruns.

Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.

We beat H-F by three strokes at their place last week,

When the wind blows like it did on the back nine today it can add at least three strokes to your round. There can be a fine line between looking brilliant and looking like an idiot. But Chad put the ball in very good places all day. He looked brilliant.

What we have to do is try to pick up as many strokes as possible tomorrow. I believe we'll able to shoot very low if our combination works nicely.

It's one of those things; you just get a very nice stroke from being included in the next thing.

While our analysis showed that aspirin may have different effects in men and women, the relatively small number of heart attacks among women and strokes among men suggest that more research is needed to better understand any differences in cardiovascular response to aspirin.

I used to be afraid of things like strokes, but I've now discovered that the fear of the stroke is worse than the stroke itself.

We rode a solid race, but we still have a lot of improvements to make. One is to build upon strokes and pick up a lot more speed - move the boat faster during the middle of the race.

We knew Schacht couldn't out-punch Davis because he had better strokes and a bigger and better forehand.

We have to understand where we have strategic relationships that require us to take a different approach. I guess the easiest way to describe it is: different strokes for different folks.

Everyone shot a few strokes higher then usual. It was their first time on this course. There is lots of sand and lots of water. Hopefully next time they will know what to expect and they will know what the hardest hole is and how to play it.

The traditional risk factors for stroke are increasing age, being male - men have more strokes than women - cigarette smoking is a very strong one and blood pressure is probably the strongest consistent factor,

The Strokes are probably having a beer surrounded by supermodels.

When we throw up that kind of score they are all usually within two or three strokes of each other, which is great.

We always try to be positive with the kids. The girls played a lot of tournament golf over the summer and where down here two times. I think it helped us handle the pressure. To be 45 strokes better and tie for second tells you how tough a field it is. It's almost unbelievable. I couldn't be more proud of the girls.

We've not been able to place these brush strokes into the context of a wider canvas.

You can lower the scores right away if you can at least two-putt every green, not three-putt. Cut back a few strokes right off the bat. We had a couple of three-putts out there, otherwise we would have gotten second.

Brian has a complete game. He serves extremely well. His ground strokes are excellent, volleys are superb.

The ones having strokes were going down a much steeper slope and hitting bottom much earlier.

The thing that has amazed me about Tyson for four years now is that no performance ever seems to be good enough for him. He'll go out there and shoot an amazing round, finish with a 32 or a 33, and come back saying he knew it could have been even a couple strokes lower. That kind of attitude is contagious, and it not only made him better but everyone around him.

Oh, he is a class act, no doubt. He has so many strokes and can be murderous at times. The only thing is that he needs to be consistent and enjoy what he is doing. I feel at times he is a bit too harsh on himself.

Finally I made three good strokes and it happened to me on the last three holes, 16 and 17 and 18.

We are excited. We were only three strokes behind the top school and we still didn't play our best golf. We had some water hazards and some shots go out of bounds. It's something the girls know that they can improve on.

As a team, most of our guys shot around their averages for the season. Ryan Robley did shoot a couple of strokes below with his best back-to-back nines of the season.

They've been working hard on their games this year. I had them doing a lot of short-game practice. We practiced on the par 3 course, a lot of chipping and putting, really concentrating on the short game, trying to eliminate some strokes. Everybody has cut three or four strokes off their rounds this year. We'll keep doing the same things we've been doing all year and hopefully it'll work out for us.

Santa Rosa was a surprise. We beat them by 20 strokes in Stanford. I hope this it's not an omen of things to come.

There's no data to determine whether this is associated with a reduction in clinical events like heart attacks, strokes and deaths. We just don't know yet.

The players still are trying to improve in all areas of their games. Everyone is capable of lowering their scores by as many as six or eight strokes a round. Hopefully, they can all do that at the same time and, maybe then, we can start challenging the top teams we face throughout the season.

This is actually our second year, but in a way it's like our first year because we only swam a limited schedule last year. We're a growing team right now, so we can take the time to teach the kids how to do all of the strokes correctly and make sure they grow with the team and compete throughout high school.

This is not a normal Vioxx case, which is about heart attacks and strokes being increased by the use of the drug, ... We plan on making it about the specifics of causation. ... This is a good case for us.

I left a couple of strokes out there ... that's why making birdie on 18 really felt good, kind of making up for that,

I'm an outdoor painter painting from life. All of my paintings are oil paintings. They are characterized by short brush strokes and bright light and use of complimentary colors.

If you pay real attention you can see where the strokes begin, you see a little point, and then the stroke lifts as he takes the hand off the paper.

If you look at the scores, there's only 24 strokes separating first and sixth place. That's not a lot of strokes.

If you get behind early, it's like battling 60-mile per hour winds in the last few tournaments. We really need to be within 10 strokes of second after the first two rounds if we want a real chance to get in the regional tournament.

I've had four really good chances, ... I lost to David Toms at the Match Play, and he played about as well as anyone could play. Tiger and I beat the field by seven strokes at The Masters. Unfortunately, I was playing against Tiger.

Strokes are never good. But children tend to heal more rapidly than adults would because their immune, nervous and circulatory systems are more responsive.

David and Benjamin played their best rounds of the year. We should get a few strokes from the top three players (today).

Then my mother had several strokes and my father, who was 85, couldn't handle it, so Donna came back and we went through the same thing here. She lives in Mill Valley; her group is organizing this event.