I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.
BOBBY JONESIf I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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If I had ever been set down in any one place and told I was to play there, and nowhere else, for the rest of my life, I should have chosen the Old Course at St. Andrews.
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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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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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Addressing a golf ball would seem to be a simple matter; that is, to the uninitiated who cannot appreciate that a golf ball can hold more terrors than a spacious auditorium packed with people.
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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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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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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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No one ever swung too slowly.
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