Bobby Jones Quotes

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.

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

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

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

I never learned anything from a match that I won.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

No putt is too short to be despised.

Rhythm and timing are the two things which we all must have, yet no one knows how to teach either.

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.

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

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.