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.
BOBBY JONESYou swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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No one ever swung too slowly.
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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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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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 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 is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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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.
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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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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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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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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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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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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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