I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.
BOBBY JONESThe difference between a sand trap and water hazard is the difference between a car crash and an airplane crash. You have a chance of recovering from a car crash.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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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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If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
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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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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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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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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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If I had ever been set down in any one place and told I was to play there, and nowhere else, for the rest of my life, I should have chosen the Old Course at St. Andrews.
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Golf is said to be an humbling game, but it is surprising how many people are either not aware of their weaknesses of else reckless of consequences.
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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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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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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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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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