It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.
BOBBY JONESNo one ever swung too slowly.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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.
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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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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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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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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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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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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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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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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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If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
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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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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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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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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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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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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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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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No one ever swung too slowly.
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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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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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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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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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