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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.

Bobby Jones

I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.
BOBBY JONES

Games Golf Play
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.
BOBBY JONES

Appreciate Disappointment Golf
No one ever swung too slowly.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Slowly Swung
Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
BOBBY JONES

Different Familiar Games
Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
BOBBY JONES

Games Golf Play
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.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Lying Play
The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
BOBBY JONES

Beats Golf Object
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.
BOBBY JONES

Fate Golf Hero
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
You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
BOBBY JONES

Adversary Human Playing
You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Men might
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.
BOBBY JONES

Chosen Golf Nowhere Place
Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
BOBBY JONES

Ambition Golf Much Too
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.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Holes Thinking
It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.
BOBBY JONES

Games Golf Passion
Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Play Shade

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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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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