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Granted, I could go out and lose everything (by) gambling and drinking, but there's no sense in denying it. It's in my blood.

John Daly

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John Daly
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: April 28
Athlete
Golfer
Napoli
John Patrick Daly
Loses
Blood
Sense
Everything
Denying
Gambling
Granted
Drinking
Lose

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I learned you can't drink whiskey and play golf.
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Ideas really do matter. But in any organization a good idea will only go so far unless its proponents are willing to fight the political games to get the idea adopted.
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This fitness thing is blown out of proportion. What am I going to do on a treadmill - smoke a cigarette and drink a diet Coke?
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You're playing competitive, and it's always better to play four competitive rounds than it is two because you sit there for a weekend and then you start all over again.
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I've got the drinkers and the smokers and the eaters on my side.
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I don't care what anybody says. The first tournament is not the hardest one to win. It's always the second one.
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[The greatest barriers to forming alliances] are not figuring out what would make others want to join with you. Assuming that what excites you excites others. Spend more time assuming people have good reasons for what they do or say and then figure out those good reasons.
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I hit the ball as hard as I can. If I can find it, I hit it again.
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I can tell you one thing. I've done this my way. I don't have anybody to blame for this win but me, and I love it.
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The only way I'll ever make the Ryder Cup team is when I become captain then I can name myself to the team.
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I was never able to have three of four beers. One's too many, and ten just ain't enough. Basically it's the way I've been since high school.
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It's nice to worry about playing golf and not all the other stuff.
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I will just put four or five extra packs of cigarettes in my bag and I will be fine.
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Everyone has addictions and my problem is that I have 5,000 of them. If it's not drinking, it's gambling if it's not gambling, it's eating anything from burgers, doughnuts to M&Ms. The only addiction I don't suffer from is chasing women.
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Whether I'm shooting 10-under or 10-over I have to realize people have come a long way to see me play. I can't be back-handing putts.
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My slogan is who needs fitness when you've got great equipment.
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All four days I didn't think. I just hit. Squeaky (Medlen, his caddy) said 'kill' and I killed it.
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Most change initiatives either fail or fall far short of original (perhaps unrealistic) expectations. More often than not, resistance is cultural in nature, the result of what James O'Toole so aptly characterizes as the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom.
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