#nick

Jack Nicklaus liked to curve the ball by opening or closing the clubface at address. I never felt I was good enough to do it his way. I didn't like changing my swing path, either, which some guys do. ↗

— Lee Trevino

#ball #changing #closing #curve #either

If I had a nickel for every time I said "Why me?" I'd have probably said "Why me?" more often. ↗

— Tom Wilson

#every time #had #i #me #more

[...] falling in love with someone beautiful and intelligent and the rest of it, then feeling like a blank twit put you at something of a disadvantage. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#love #nick-hornby #self-hate #beauty

Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. ↗

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#nicknames #people #ridiculous #stick

Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust? ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#ask #bible #cannot #certainty #decay

Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#cracker #dizzy #home #home run #like

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#believe #devil #haunts #heaviest #imagination

If you take the approach that you want to scrape every last nickel off the table, that'll work one or two times, but after awhile, your reputation will precede you. ↗

— Tom Hicks

#approach #awhile #every #last #nickel

Really, the combination of the scabs and the ointment looks hideous. I can't help enjoying his distress. "Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in your life you haven't looked pretty?" I say. "It must be. The sensation's completely new. How have you managed it all these years?" he asks. "Just avoid mirrors. You'll forget about it," I say. "Not if I keep looking at you," he says. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#finnick #hunger-games #katniss #mirror #pretty

My nickname was Skinabo - 'skin and bones.' ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#nickname #skin