Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
BOBBY JONESSome people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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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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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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It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.
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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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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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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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Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
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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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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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I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.
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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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