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.
BOBBY JONESIt is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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I will tell you privately it’s not going to get better, it’s going to get worse all the time, but don’t fret. Remember, we play the ball where it lies, and now let’s not talk about this, ever again.
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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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Doesn’t it show us all that we are silly little boys or fatuous asses to think that we can play golf without making a lot of bad shots?
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One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after year with faults we had discovered and corrected time and again.
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If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling stroke of tragedy, become the hero of unbelievable melodrama, or the clown in a side-splitting comedy.
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As I see it, the thing that hurt my putting most when it was bad, was thinking too much about how I was making the stroke and not enough about getting the ball in the hole.
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I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.
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