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"I play bad golf for good charities like the LA Police."
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"Trouble is, I don't get to play a lot at the moment because I've just signed a contract where I've got to do 200 shows a year in pubs, so the golf's fallen away a bit."
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"Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet."
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"If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be a caddy."
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"At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes."
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"A golf course is nothing but a pool room moved outdoors."
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"It was cool for a couple of weeks, but how much bad golf can you play?"
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"I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it."
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"Golf has become so manicured, so perfect. The greens, the fairways. I don't like golf carts. I like walking. Some clubs won't let you in unless you have a caddy and a cart."
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"A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible."
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"My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year."
Failure
"It's the same with the ballplayers. Babe Ruth spent a lot, too and the ballplayers make a lot more money now."
Money
"A lost of people recognize me and maybe will ask for an autograph, but it's nothing like if Elvis would've done something like that, 'cause he's so popular, or maybe The Beatles 'cause they stirred up a lot of action."
People
"I try to stay ahead of things, if you know what I mean. I take the money I make and reinvest it."
Money
"A record co. is just a vehicle for public appearances."
Public
"It's like Branson. When I went to Branson there was only 4 acts in there. Now, you can't count 'em. There's so many theatres now, that only the strong will survive."
Now
"Well, I got people that help me with the restaurant. I don't have to be at the restaurant 24 hours a day."
People
"When a record co. finds a guy now, they want to own everything. They want to own the rights to market that person's particular name. They want a piece of the action all the way through."
Action
"So I'm trying to spread myself to the point to where I can do the night shows and not have to worry about the matinees, and do one or two matinees down through the year."
Night
"If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket."
Now
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