Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
BOBBY JONESIn golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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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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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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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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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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Doesn’t it show us all that we are silly little boys or fatuous asses to think that we can play golf without making a lot of bad shots?
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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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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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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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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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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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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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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 one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
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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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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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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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You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling stroke of tragedy, become the hero of unbelievable melodrama, or the clown in a side-splitting comedy.
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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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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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