Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
BOBBY JONESGolf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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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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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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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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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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If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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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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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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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But such is certainly not the case.
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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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