“Pat Fox out to the forty(yard line) and grabs the sliothar(ball), I bought a dog from his father last week. Fox turns and sprints for goal, the dog ran a great race last Tuesday in Limerick. Fox to the 21 fires a shot, it goes to the left and wide......and the dog lost as well.” WellsLastsTurnsFatherLostLeftGoalLinesRaceFireWeekDogShotsBallsWideRanFortyYardsFoxesTuesdaySprintHurlingLimerickGreat Race Author:Micheal O Muircheartaigh
“From the beginning it was drilled into me that a golf course was a place where character fully reveals itself -- both its strengths and its flaws. As a result, I learned early not only to fix my ball marks but also to congratulate an opponent on a good shot, avoid walking ahead of a player preparing to shoot, remain perfectly still when someone else was playing, and a score of other small courtesies that revealed, in my father's mind, one's abiding respect for the game.” MindStillsCharacterCoursesFatherGamesResultsPlayerWalkingShotsBallsMarkGolfOpponentsScoreFlawsPreparingCourtesyAbidingGolf Course Author:Arnold Palmer
“We long for our father. We wear his clothes, and actually try to fill his shoes. . . . We hang on to him, begging him to teach ushow to do whatever is masculine, to throw balls or be in the woods or go see where he works. . . . We want our fathers to protect us from coming too completely under the control of our mothers. . . . We want to be seen with Dad, hanging out with men and doing men things.” MenWantTryingLongMotherFatherTeachDadProtectClothesBallsShoesWoodsHanging OutMasculineOur FatherBeggingDoing Me Author:Frank Pittman
“The first time at age 5 and a half, when I took a racket in my hands and my father fed me some balls, I made 50 backhands in a row - didn't miss a single one.” FirstsMadeHandsAgeFatherHalfMissingFirst TimeBallsFedsRacket Author:Marion Bartoli
“I couldn't catch a ball if it had Elmer's Glue all over it. And my father had to be this ex-football star. He didn't know what to tell his friends, so he told them all I had Polio. On Father's Day, I used to limp for him.” IfsKnowsUsedFatherStarsFootballBallsOver ItExesGluePolioChorus Line Author:Matthew West