Bobby Jones Quotes

Quotes about:

• 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.

  Bobby Jones

  Lying, Golf, Games

  "Bobby Jones said play the ball as it lies. Tiger Woods has done just that", www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

  318 Copy quote

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

  Bobby Jones

  Sports, Golf, Space

  117 Copy quote

• 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.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Ideas, Accepting

  Bobby Jones (1960). “Golf is My Game”

  118 Copy quote

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

  Bobby Jones

  Real, Golf, Way

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

  100 Copy quote

• You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Men, Might

  99 Copy quote

• I never learned anything from a match that I won.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Funny Golf, Inspirational Golf

  79 Copy quote

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

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Beats, Objects

  83 Copy quote

• 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.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Games, Play

  71 Copy quote

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

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Thinking, Swings

  86 Copy quote

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

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Games, Play

  80 Copy quote

• 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.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Men, Long

  76 Copy quote

• 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.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Men, Games

  63 Copy quote

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

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Games, Mental Toughness

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

  94 Copy quote

• 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.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Winning, Order

  70 Copy quote

• In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Play, Important

  29 Copy quote

• Many shots are spoiled at the last instant by efforts to add a few more yards.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Effort, Yards

  30 Copy quote

• Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.

  Bobby Jones

  Inspirational, Sports, Thinking

  18 Copy quote

• A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Player, Thinking

  53 Copy quote

• No putt is too short to be despised.

  Bobby Jones

  Too Short, Despised

  11 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

• Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one's hand.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Games, Hands

  9 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

Page 1 of 3

← Prev

1

2

3

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin