Nobody could understand why a guy would love his guitar, then all of a sudden turn around and try to destroy it. Jimi was just different.


Bobby Womack

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Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.
BOBBY HULL
If you have to remind yourself to concentrate during competition, you've got no chance to concentrat...
BOBBY NICHOLS
It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many y...
BOBBY JONES
Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a ...
BOBBY JONES
Among golfers the putter is usually known as the payoff club and how right that is! Putting is in fa...
BOBBY LOCKE
Drive for show, but putt for dough.
BOBBY LOCKE
Forget about style; worry about results.
BOBBY ORR
Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installm...
BOBBY HULL
We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.
BOBBY CLARKE
Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the perc...
BOBBY BRAGAN
You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
BOBBY SEALE
The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.
BOBBY MCFERRIN
If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well...
BOBBY KNIGHT
Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
BOBBY KNIGHT
The key is not the "will to win" . . . everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is ...
BOBBY KNIGHT
Everybody has an opportunity in America. I don't care if guys whine and complain about this or t...
BOBBY KNIGHT
And what is needed to prevent them from joining gangs was ample recreation for boys as well as girls...
BOBBY SCOTT
One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very a...
BOBBY FLAY
In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend school...
BOBBY SCOTT
As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of...
BOBBY KNIGHT
I've been a very lucky guy. I played on championship teams. I played for Canada. I've won so...
BOBBY ORR
Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.
BOBBY UNSER
When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, a...
BOBBY KNIGHT
I watched the guy that hits a home run, and he comes across the plate and he points skyward, like th...
BOBBY KNIGHT
The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.
BOBBY SCOTT
They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in m...
BOBBY SANDS
No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential bas...
BOBBY SCOTT
Shopping in Thailand is super cheap and generally high quality. Bangkok is also safe. If you see any...
BOBBY LEE
To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it...
BOBBY BOWDEN
Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs ...
BOBBY VINTON
Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidd...
BOBBY UNSER
I feel honesty always works.
BOBBY UNSER
Yellow usually means it's not that serious.
BOBBY UNSER
You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
BOBBY KNIGHT
We should increase our development of alternative fuels, taking advantage of renewable resources, li...
BOBBY JINDAL
On the 11th anniversary of 9/11, it is some consolation that the man most responsible for that terri...
BOBBY GHOSH
I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
BOBBY FISCHER
All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
BOBBY FISCHER
The measure of success is happiness and peace of mind.
BOBBY DAVRO
The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is impor...
BOBBY KNIGHT
I was 13 when I developed the classic symptoms of a person who gets diabetes: a lot of weight loss, ...
BOBBY CLARKE
My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at...
BOBBY MOYNIHAN
Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
BOBBY KNIGHT
On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I ...
BOBBY JINDAL
Finally, we should help developing nations like China and India curb their exponentially increasing ...
BOBBY JINDAL
India, in particular, is looking to develop nuclear power for domestic, commercial use, and we shoul...
BOBBY JINDAL