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.
BOBBY JONESYou are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He’s a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too.
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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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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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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 ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.
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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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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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No one ever swung too slowly.
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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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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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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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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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