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Bobby Jones Quotes: The main idea in golf as in life, I suppose is to learn to accept what cannot be altered and to keep on doing one's own reasoned and resolute best whether the prospect be bleak or rosy.
         

The main idea in golf as in life, I suppose is to learn to accept what cannot be altered and to keep on doing one's own reasoned and resolute best whether the prospect be bleak or rosy.


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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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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.



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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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The real way to enjoy playing golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes.



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Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course



You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.

You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.



The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.

The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.



Golf is the only game I know of that actually becomes harder the longer you play it.

Golf is the only game I know of that actually becomes harder the longer you play it.



I never learned anything from a match that I won.

I never learned anything from a match that I won.



The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He's a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too.

The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He's a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too.





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