Henry Beard Quotes

I was brought up with a scientific outlook on life. It's the way my father deciphers the world - whether it's football, politics or hairstyles. So I don't get anxious about the future, because I was raised to believe and accept that nothing stays the same, and the best way to survive is to adapt.

I'm just kind of taking what I get and making the best out of it, honestly.

I never kick my ball in the rough or improve my lie in a sand trap. For that I have a caddie.

Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies.

In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.

I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.

Life never works out the way you think it will. But you just have to deal with it.

Change is not threatening.

Life? You can't manipulate it or bend it to your will. You have no choice but to roll with it.

Give up the thought that you have control. You don't. The best you can do is adapt, anticipate, be flexible, sense the environment and respond.

Don't worry about what happens when things go wrong; just accept that they're going to, and figure out how do you want to cope with it when it does.

You don't ever really wanna be let go from a job, but like anything that happens in life, you gotta make the best of your situation.

It's life, it's hockey. You just can't worry about it.

One door shuts, and another one opens, and you just kind of follow that path. My path has been a little curvy, but it is what it is. It's all good.

Always plan, but never plan on your plans.

You can't always have your way. Sometimes life is going to go a different direction. But you've got to learn how to adjust, and you've got to learn how to deal with it.

I improvised my life along the way - I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.

There’s no remaking reality... Just take it as it comes. Hold your ground and take it as it comes. There’s no other way.

What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.

Life happens. Adapt. Embrace change, and make the most of everything that comes your way.

"It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely change of weather. We must expect change."

In this speedy world of ours when facts are multiplying rapidly and giant rearrangements are happening all around us, it seems dangerous to be made nervous by the new - to want what we can never have, to want things not to be rearranged. It would be better to be able to take the leap, which is to be able not only to live with change and newness, but even to help make it.

If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near him and audibly count his strokes. It would be justifiable homicide if he wound up his pitiable exhibition by applying his niblick to your head.

Golf requires only a few simple Rules and Regulations to guide the players in the true nature of its sporting appeal. The spirit of the game is its own referee.

These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.