You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules. Bobby Jones More Quotes by Bobby Jones More Quotes From Bobby Jones 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 games golf lying 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 whether the prospect be bleak or rosy. Bobby Jones accepting golf ideas Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears. Bobby Jones space golf sports The real way to enjoy playing golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes. Bobby Jones real golf way 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 games play golf I never learned anything from a match that I won. Bobby Jones inspirational-golf funny-golf golf The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself. Bobby Jones objects beats golf Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course Bobby Jones mental-toughness games golf You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about. Bobby Jones swings golf thinking Golf is the only game I know of that actually becomes harder the longer you play it. Bobby Jones games play golf In 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 Jones winning golf order No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why golf is the greatest of games. You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par. Bobby Jones games golf men The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He's a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too. Bobby Jones golf men long I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe. Bobby Jones games play golf Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But such is certainly not the case. Bobby Jones balls games golf On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling stroke of tragedy, become the hero of unbelievable melodrama, or the clown in a side-splitting comedy. Bobby Jones fate hero golf A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying. Bobby Jones player golf thinking If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me. Bobby Jones eight feet golf Rhythm and timing are the two things which we all must have, yet no one knows how to teach either. Bobby Jones timing golf two In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play. Bobby Jones important play golf
