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Bobby Jones Inspirational Quotes (41)

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No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why golf is the greatest of games. You are not playing a human adversary you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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Golf is said to be an humbling game, but it is surprising how many people are either not aware of their weaknesses of else reckless of consequences.
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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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I got an extra hour's nap.
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No one ever swung too slowly.
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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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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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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.
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I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.
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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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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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Rhythm and timing are the two things which we all must have, yet no one knows how to teach either.
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No putt is too short to be despised.
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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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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I'm not even familiar with.
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The rewards of golf, and of life too I expect, are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules.
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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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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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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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Many shots are spoiled at the last instant by efforts to add a few more yards.
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The moment the average golfer attempts to play from long grass or a bunker or from a difficult lie of any kind, he becomes a digger instead of a swinger.
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Well, I'm glad we don't have to play in the shade.
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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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Bad putting is due more to the effect the green has upon the player than it has upon the action of the ball.
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