I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.
BOBBY JONESIf ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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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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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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If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
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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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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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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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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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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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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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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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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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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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