No one ever swung too slowly.
BOBBY JONESI 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.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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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 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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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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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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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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In order to win, you must play your best golf when you need it most, and play your sloppy stuff when you can afford it. I shall not attempt to explain how you achieve this happy timing.
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.
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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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If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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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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Golf is said to be an humbling game, but it is surprising how many people are either not aware of their weaknesses of else reckless of consequences.
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The difference between a sand trap and water hazard is the difference between a car crash and an airplane crash. You have a chance of recovering from a car crash.
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Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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There isn’t a hole out there [Augusta] that can’t be birdied if you just think. But there isn’t one that can’t be double-bogeyed if you stop thinking.
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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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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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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.
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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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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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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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