I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.
BOBBY JONESIf 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.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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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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Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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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 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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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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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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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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It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.
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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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