If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
BOBBY JONESFight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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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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No one ever swung too slowly.
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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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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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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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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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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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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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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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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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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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