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?
BOBBY JONESToo much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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There isn’t a hole out there [Augusta] that can’t be birdied if you just think. But there isn’t one that can’t be double-bogeyed if you stop thinking.
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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 never learned anything from a match that I won.
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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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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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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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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 swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.
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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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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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No one ever swung 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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