Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
BOBBY JONESNobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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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 a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
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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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No one ever swung too slowly.
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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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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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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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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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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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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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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying.
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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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