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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.

Bobby Jones

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?
BOBBY JONES

Asses Bad Boys Golf Shots Silly
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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Chosen Golf Nowhere Place
The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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Exercise Golf Golfers
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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Games Golf Lying
The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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Beats Golf Object
You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Golf Swings Thinking
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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Golf Holes Thinking
I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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Funny Golf Inspirational
I have never felt so lonely as on a golf course in the midst of a championship with thousands of people around, especially when things began to go wrong and the crowds started wandering away.
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Golf Lonely People
Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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Golf Kind Play
Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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Ambition Golf Much Too
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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Appreciate Disappointment Golf
Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
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Games Golf Hands
Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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Different Familiar Games
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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Games Golf Passion
Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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Inspirational Sports Thinking

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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