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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I'm not even familiar with.
Bobby Jones
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Bobby Jones
Age: 69 †
Born: 1902
Born: March 17
Died: 1971
Died: December 18
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Atlanta
Georgia
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Robert Tyre Jones Jr.
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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.
Bobby Jones
You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
Bobby Jones
Rhythm and timing are the two things which we all must have, yet no one knows how to teach either.
Bobby Jones
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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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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Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one's hand.
Bobby Jones
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.
Bobby Jones
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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I get as much fun as the next man from whaling the ball as hard as I can and catching it squarely on the button. But from sad experience I learned not to try this in a round that meant anything.
Bobby Jones
Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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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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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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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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Well, I'm glad we don't have to play in the shade.
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The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.
Bobby Jones
Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
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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.
Bobby Jones
I had held a notion that I could make a pretty fair appraisal of the worth of an opponent simply by speaking to him on the first tee and taking a good measuring look into his eyes.
Bobby Jones
I got an extra hour's nap.
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