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 JONESSome people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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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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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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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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Addressing a golf ball would seem to be a simple matter; that is, to the uninitiated who cannot appreciate that a golf ball can hold more terrors than a spacious auditorium packed with people.
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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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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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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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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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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
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