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 JONESToo much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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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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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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Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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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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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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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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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.
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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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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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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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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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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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