Explore Quotes by Bobby Jones

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

You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank.

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.

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

The 'enemy' in golf is tension.

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

Golf is the one game I know _x000D_ which becomes more and more _x000D_ difficult the longer one plays it.

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.

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.

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

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.

Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.

Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.

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.

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.

Well, I'm glad we don't have to play in the shade.

Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.

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

The best exercise for golfers is golfing.

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

If I needed advice from my caddie, he'd be hitting the shots and I'd be carrying the bag.