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I never learned anything from a match that I won.

Bobby Jones

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.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Lying Play
Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
BOBBY JONES

Inspirational Sports Thinking
It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.
BOBBY JONES

Games Golf Passion
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 JONES

Games Golf Men
Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Space Sports
The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
BOBBY JONES

Exercise Golf Golfers
Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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Ambition Golf Much Too
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.
BOBBY JONES

Basketball Golf Sports
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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Chosen Golf Nowhere Place
Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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Clubs Golf Nobody
You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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Adversary Human Playing
Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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Fighting Muscles Strive
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?
BOBBY JONES

Asses Bad Boys Golf Shots Silly
A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Player Thinking
The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
BOBBY JONES

Enemy Golf Tension
Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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Different Familiar Games

I never learned anything from a match that I won.

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