Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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's Popular Quotes

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

- Bobby Jones

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

- Bobby Jones

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

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

- Bobby Jones

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

- Bobby Jones

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

- Bobby Jones

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 wh…

- Bobby Jones

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

- Bobby Jones

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

- Bobby Jones