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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

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.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Men Team
The difference between a sand trap and water hazard is the difference between a car crash and an airplane crash. You have a chance of recovering from a car crash.
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Airplane Differences Golf
Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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Fighting Muscles Strive
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
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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Golf Order Winning
The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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Exercise Golf Golfers
Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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Golf Play Shade
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.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Player Thinking
No one ever swung too slowly.
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Golf Slowly Swung
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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Asses Bad Boys Golf Shots Silly
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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Fate Golf Hero
The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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Beats Golf Object
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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Eight Feet Golf
Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
BOBBY JONES

Games Golf Hands
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
Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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Golf Space Sports

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