Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies. Bobby Jones More Quotes by Bobby Jones More Quotes From Bobby Jones Doesn'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 Jones silly golf boys Golf is the one game I know Bobby Jones games play golf I 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. Bobby Jones lonely golf people Nobody ever swung a club too slowly. Bobby Jones clubs golf The moment the average golfer attempts to play from long grass or a bunker or from a difficult lie of any kind, he becomes a digger instead of a swinger. Bobby Jones long-grass golf lying Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it. Bobby Jones loses winning golf I had held a notion that I could make a pretty fair appraisal of the worth of an opponent simply by speaking to him on the first tee and taking a good measuring look into his eyes. Bobby Jones eye golf looks No one ever swung too slowly. Bobby Jones golf Addressing a golf ball would seem to be a simple matter; that is, to the uninitiated who cannot appreciate that a golf ball can hold more terrors than a spacious auditorium packed with people. Bobby Jones simple golf people I always like to see a person stand up to a golf ball as though he were perfectly at home in its presence. Bobby Jones balls home golf 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 holes golf thinking Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker. Bobby Jones too-much ambition golf Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands. Bobby Jones clubs golf hands I never learned a thing from a tournament I won. Bobby Jones tournaments Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar. Bobby Jones kind play golf Well, I'm glad we don't have to play in the shade. Bobby Jones shade play golf Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I'm not even familiar with. Bobby Jones familiar different games 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. Bobby Jones balls hurt thinking Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little. Bobby Jones play golf littles I got an extra hour's nap. Bobby Jones extras hours naps
