You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
BOBBY JONESOne 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.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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 never learned anything from a match that I won.
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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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You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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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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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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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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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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No one ever swung too slowly.
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Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But such is certainly not the case.
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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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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 people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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