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I never learned anything from a match that I won.

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.
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Golf Men Team
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
Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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Golf Play Shade
The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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Enemy Golf Tension
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.
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Golf Player Thinking
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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Golf People Simple
The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He’s a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too.
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Golf Long Men
Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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Clubs Golf Hands
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
Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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Inspirational Sports Thinking
You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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Adversary Human Playing
Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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Golf Loses Winning
You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Golf Swings Thinking
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
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

I never learned anything from a match that I won.

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