Quotes by Bobby Jones

“The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two”

“You might as well praise me for not robbing a bank.”
Said after receiving acclamation for calling a penalty on himself

“Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club still in your hands”

“It’s nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.”

“Some people think they are concentrating when they are merely worrying”

“Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course, the space between your ears.”

“No one ever swung to slowly”

“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.”

“The enemy in golf is tension”

“The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.”