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.
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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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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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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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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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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No one ever swung too slowly.
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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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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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Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
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On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling stroke of tragedy, become the hero of unbelievable melodrama, or the clown in a side-splitting comedy.
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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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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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