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I never learned anything from a match that I won.

Bobby Jones

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
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
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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Chosen Golf Nowhere Place
You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Golf Swings Thinking
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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Games Golf Lying
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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Golf Order Winning
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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Golf Holes Thinking
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
The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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Enemy Golf Tension
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 Lying Play
Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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Ambition Golf Much Too
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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Games Golf Passion
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.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Men Team
I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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Funny Golf Inspirational
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
The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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Exercise Golf Golfers

I never learned anything from a match that I won.

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