You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
BOBBY JONESYou might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
BOBBY JONESThe ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
BOBBY JONESGolf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
BOBBY JONESNicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
BOBBY JONESOne 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 JONESIn 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 JONESNobody ever swung a club too slowly.
BOBBY JONESThe object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
BOBBY JONESIf ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.
BOBBY JONESAs 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 JONESGolf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
BOBBY JONESI 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.
BOBBY JONESCompetitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
BOBBY JONESSome emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
BOBBY JONESFight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
BOBBY JONESThe 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.
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