I never learned anything from a match that I won.
BOBBY JONESAddressing 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.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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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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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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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 a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
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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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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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Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
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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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I think that (Alister) MacKenzie and I managed to work as a completely sympathetic team. Of course there was never any question that he was the architect and I was the advisor and consultant.
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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But such is certainly not the case.
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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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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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