I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.
BOBBY JONESGolf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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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Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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As I see it, the thing that hurt my putting most when it was bad, was thinking too much about how I was making the stroke and not enough about getting the ball in the hole.
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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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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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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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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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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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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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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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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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