No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why golf is the greatest of games.
BOBBY JONESSome emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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 object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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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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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.
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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But such is certainly not the case.
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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.
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No one ever swung too slowly.
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I have never felt so lonely as on a golf course in the midst of a championship with thousands of people around, especially when things began to go wrong and the crowds started wandering away.
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
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He [the golfer] must have the courage to keep trying in the face of ill luck or disappointment, and timidity to appreciate and appraise the dangers of each stroke, and to curb the desire to take chances beyond reasonable hope of success.
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