I have worked hard to improve my consistency in my driving, irons, short game, and putting. Natalie Gulbis
I love short track. I competed in short track, I was a world champion in 1986 but at that point in time it wasn't in the Olympic Games so I moved into long track. Short track is a blast to skate and it's a blast to watch. Bonnie Blair
If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end. Julius Erving
There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect. Walter Hagen Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/w/walter_hagen.html#ELOoToyfBILJGWgL.99 Walter Hagen
A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. Lynn Abbey
Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a bad thing.Bill Buckner
Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.Nelson Mandela
Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that. Bo Jackson
For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy. Aristotle
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. Christian Nestell Bovee
How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have been useful to provide us with more modest, more genuine things, that had less pretensions: short stories, memoirs, notes, testimonials, or at any rate, books that are open, without a preconceived plan. Italo Calvino
How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have been useful to provide us with more modest, more genuine things, that had less pretensions: short stories, memoirs, notes, testimonials, or at any rate, books that are open, without a preconceived plan. Italo Calvino
I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of classes that taught me I would never be a novelist. I discovered I had no imagination. My short stories were always thinly veiled memoir. Anne Fadiman