Handicap Quotes

I’ve been writing a lot, I’ve a few projects I’m trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing… Apart from that, if I could get lower that a ten handicap on my golf game I’d be thrilled.

I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy.

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.

The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind.

No one doubts that having a criminal record – whether it results in community probation or prison – is a serious handicap.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

I like to say that the greatest handicap of deafness does not lie in the ear, it lies in the mind. I hope that through my example, such as my role on ‘The West Wing,’ I can help change attitudes on deafness and prove we can really do everything… except hear.

I play a bit of golf, off a 12 handicap.

For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland – some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties.

On the campaign trail, I have the opportunity to meet people from all walks of life – from residents at a battered women’s shelter to mentally handicap children to retirees – and learn about their lives and struggles.

I have a nine handicap in golf – I can always find time for a round – and I’m on my treadmill and cross-trainer every day.

A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.

If you got a disability or a handicap, that means you’re limited to certain things. And I don’t feel like I’m limited to nothing. I can do anything anybody else can do.

Losing Michael Jackson is a handicap. It’s the Lakers trying to win a championship without Kobe Bryant.

Religion looms as large as an elephant in the United States, to the point that being nonreligious is about the biggest handicap a politician running for office can have, bigger than being gay, unmarried, thrice married, or black.

The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.

It was a mistake of mine to train like that, with friends, at home. It was a handicap I should not have given myself. In Croatia, we do not have big camps like in other countries, but I was not willing to go away to train.

You’ve got to love what you’re doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, and continue to play for a long, long time.

And yeah, my handicap was down to a 10 when we were at the thick of it. I trained for six or seven months, golfing every day for six hours, seven days a week, with eight trainers. It was intense.

Success is a gift, but it’s a handicap at the same time, I think.

Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap – it is all in the mind.

Florida sends me a handicap sticker when I’m there. It’s embarrassing. But I can’t walk more than six holes before the whole knee swells up, and then I can’t go anymore.

A handicap is only if you let it be a handicap.

Well, I’m a 14 handicap. Anyone who golfs knows what that means.

You take away the handicap of obesity, and this person becomes someone else. Take a jolly fat man for instance. You talk to him, and his heart is breaking. He wants to be thin.

But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.

This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.

If I spend a couple of hours practising on the driving range, my 10 handicap becomes a 12 by the time I get on the course.

An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.

Here in South Korea, I’m continuing to learn English in order to boost my prospects. When North Korean defectors try to get a job to stabilize their lives, their lack of English is a handicap. It was the same story while I was living in China. It took an enormous amount of time and enthusiasm to learn Chinese.

As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.

The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.

I use this app that keeps my handicap. As professionals, we don’t keep handicaps. But as a kid, I was so excited about seeing how low I could get my handicap. So that’s one app I really do use a lot.

Test cricket is a different sort of cricket altogether. Some players who are good for one-day cricket may be a handicap in a Test match.

In my life, I’d like to play more golf and, and get a decent handicap.

Prior to that I produced a couple of TV movies for CBS, but the truth of the matter is that I burned out for a couple of years. I didn’t do anything for a while, apart from taking up golf, for which I got a four handicap.

While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.

People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can’t possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.

I didn’t think of my pregnancy as a handicap for one minute, but having said that, I think the only big challenge was being so tired all the time.

A golf holiday with the guys is always nice. I’m a bit of a bandit on the golf course because I play with a handicap of 10, but I should be lower than that.

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap.

I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.