It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.
BOBBY JONESYou swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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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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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 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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In order to win, you must play your best golf when you need it most, and play your sloppy stuff when you can afford it. I shall not attempt to explain how you achieve this happy timing.
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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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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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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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No one ever swung too slowly.
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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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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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