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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.

Bobby Jones

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.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Lying Play
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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Appreciate Disappointment Golf
Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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Golf Loses Winning
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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Games Golf Play
In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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Golf Important Play
Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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Clubs Golf Hands
Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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Golf Play Shade
The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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Beats Golf Object
Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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Fighting Muscles Strive
Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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Golf Kind Play
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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Golf Men might
Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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Inspirational Sports Thinking
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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Games Golf Lying
Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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Different Familiar Games
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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Golf Men Team
You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Golf Swings Thinking

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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