You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
BOBBY JONESI never learned anything from a match that I won.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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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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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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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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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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Golf is said to be an humbling game, but it is surprising how many people are either not aware of their weaknesses of else reckless of consequences.
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Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots – but you have to play the ball where it lies.
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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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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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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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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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One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after year with faults we had discovered and corrected time and again.
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As I see it, the thing that hurt my putting most when it was bad, was thinking too much about how I was making the stroke and not enough about getting the ball in the hole.
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You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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