I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.
BOBBY JONESI have never felt so lonely as on a golf course in the midst of a championship with thousands of people around, especially when things began to go wrong and the crowds started wandering away.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
-
-
There 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.
BOBBY JONES -
If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
BOBBY JONES -
Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
BOBBY JONES -
It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.
BOBBY JONES -
Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
BOBBY JONES -
Golf 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 JONES -
Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
BOBBY JONES -
No one ever swung too slowly.
BOBBY JONES -
I 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 JONES -
You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
BOBBY JONES -
Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
BOBBY JONES -
Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
BOBBY JONES -
You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
BOBBY JONES -
The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
BOBBY JONES -
I never learned anything from a match that I won.
BOBBY JONES