I never learned anything from a match that I won.
BOBBY JONESToo much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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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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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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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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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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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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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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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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