Bobby Jones Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Bobby Jones

  Disappointment, Golf, Appreciate

  Bobby Jones (1966). “Bobby Jones on Golf”, Main Street Books

  22 Copy quote

• If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Eight, Feet

  39 Copy quote

• 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.

  Bobby Jones

  Hero, Fate, Golf

  30 Copy quote

• 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.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Games, Balls

  68 Copy quote

• The difference between a sand trap and water hazard is the difference between a car crash and an airplane crash. You have a chance of recovering from a car crash.

  Bobby Jones

  Airplane, Golf, Differences

  45 Copy quote

• 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

  Fun, Golf, Men

  Bobby Jones (1966). “Bobby Jones on Golf”, Main Street Books

  57 Copy quote

• I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Play, Games

  12 Copy quote

• 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.

  Bobby Jones

  Struggle, Golf, Years

  Bobby Jones (1966). “Bobby Jones on Golf”, Main Street Books

  44 Copy quote

• I think that (Alister) MacKenzie and I managed to work as a completely sympathetic team. Of course there was never any question that he was the architect and I was the advisor and consultant. No man learns to design a golf course simply by playing golf, no matter how well. But it happened that both of us were extravagant admirers of the Old Course at St Andrews and we both desired as much as possible to simulate seaside conditions insofar as the differences in turf and terrain would allow.

  Bobby Jones

  Team, Golf, Men

  41 Copy quote

• Golf is recognized as one of the more difficult games to play or teach. One reason for this is that each person necessarily plays by feel, and a feel is almost impossible to describe.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Games, Play

  Bobby Jones (1966). “Bobby Jones on Golf”, Main Street Books

  19 Copy quote

• The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Two, Secret

  23 Copy quote

• Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Clubs

  17 Copy quote

• The 'enemy' in golf is tension.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Enemy, Tension

  9 Copy quote

• I will tell you privately it's not going to get better, it's going to get worse all the time, but don't fret. Remember, we play the ball where it lies, and now let's not talk about this, ever again.

  Bobby Jones

  Lying, Golf, Play

  27 Copy quote

• 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.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Should Have, Play

  47 Copy quote

• 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?

  Bobby Jones

  Silly, Golf, Boys

  22 Copy quote

• 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

  Golf, Games, People

  16 Copy quote

• It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.

  Bobby Jones

  Passion, Golf, Games

  18 Copy quote

• 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.

  Bobby Jones

  Lying, Golf, Long Grass

  13 Copy quote

• I always like to see a person stand up to a golf ball as though he were perfectly at home in its presence.

  Bobby Jones

  Home, Golf, Balls

  Bobby Jones (1966). “Bobby Jones on Golf”, Main Street Books

  10 Copy quote

• Bobby JonesConsidered objectively, it is quite obviously a very simple matter to propel a ball with a stick across some specially prepared ground and into a hole which is of sufficient size to accomodate it by a good margin. Simple that is, provided there is no limit upon the time or the number of strokes required.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Simple, Numbers

  17 Copy quote

• Golf is the one game I know
  which becomes more and more
  difficult the longer one plays it.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Games, Play

  Bobby Jones (1966). “Bobby Jones on Golf”, Main Street Books

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Eye, Golf, Looks

  13 Copy quote

• Bad putting is due more to the effect the green has upon the player than it has upon the action of the ball.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Player, Balls

  Bobby Jones (1966). “Bobby Jones on Golf”, Main Street Books

  7 Copy quote

• Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Hands, Clubs

  8 Copy quote

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