I never learned anything from a match that I won.
BOBBY JONESI never learned anything from a match that I won.
BOBBY JONESYou swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
BOBBY JONESGolf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
BOBBY JONESIt is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.
BOBBY JONESYou are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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.
BOBBY JONESJack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
BOBBY JONESGolf is said to be an humbling game, but it is surprising how many people are either not aware of their weaknesses of else reckless of consequences.
BOBBY JONESNicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
BOBBY JONESI 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.
BOBBY JONESDoesn’t it show us all that we are silly little boys or fatuous asses to think that we can play golf without making a lot of bad shots?
BOBBY JONESThe best exercise for golfers is golfing.
BOBBY JONESHe [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.
BOBBY JONESWell, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
BOBBY JONESToo much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
BOBBY JONESThere isn’t a hole out there [Augusta] that can’t be birdied if you just think. But there isn’t one that can’t be double-bogeyed if you stop thinking.
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