If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
BOBBY JONESYou might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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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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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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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 are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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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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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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No one ever swung too slowly.
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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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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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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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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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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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