It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.
BOBBY JONESThe best exercise for golfers is golfing.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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I have never felt so lonely as on a golf course in the midst of a championship with thousands of people around, especially when things began to go wrong and the crowds started wandering away.
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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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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.
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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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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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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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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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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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