Bobby Jones Quotes

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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.

  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.

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

  Bobby Jones

  Sports, Golf, Space

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• 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”

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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.

  Bobby Jones

  Real, Golf, Way

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

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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.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Men, Might

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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.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Games, Play

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

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Funny Golf, Inspirational Golf

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

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Thinking, Swings

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

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Beats, Objects

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

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Games, Play

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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.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Men, Games

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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

  Golf, Games, Hands

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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).

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• 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

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• 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

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

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Effort, Yards

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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.

  Bobby Jones

  Hero, Fate, Golf

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• The 'enemy' in golf is tension.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Enemy, Tension

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• As I see it, the thing that hurt my putting most when it was bad, was thinking too much about how I was making the stroke and not enough about getting the ball in the hole.

  Bobby Jones

  Hurt, Thinking, Balls

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

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Play, Important

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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.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Games, Balls

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• 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

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• 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

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