I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.
BOBBY JONESJack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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No one ever swung too slowly.
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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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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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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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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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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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You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after year with faults we had discovered and corrected time and again.
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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 emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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