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Golf is the only game I know of that actually becomes harder the longer you play it. — Bobby Jones

The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself. — Bobby Jones

Jones is the greatest golfer who ever lived and probably ever will live. That's my goal. Bobby Jones. It's the only goal. — Jack Nicklaus

Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker. — Bobby Jones

Many shots are spoiled at the last instant by efforts to add a few more yards. — Bobby Jones

Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands. — Bobby Jones

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

I got an extra hour's nap. — Bobby Jones

Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course ... the space between your ears. — Bobby Jones

I never learned a thing from a tournament I won. — Bobby Jones

Nobody ever swung a club too slowly. — Bobby Jones

Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I'm not even familiar with. — Bobby Jones

Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout. — Bobby Jones

Well, I'm glad we don't have to play in the shade. — Bobby Jones

Golf is the one game I know
which becomes more and more
difficult the longer one plays it. — Bobby Jones

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course — Bobby Jones

Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar. — 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

The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two. — Bobby Jones

The best exercise for golfers is golfing. — Bobby Jones

You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank. — Bobby Jones

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

Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying. — 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

Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one's hand. — Bobby Jones

The 'enemy' in golf is tension. — Bobby Jones

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

If I needed advice from my caddie, he'd be hitting the shots and I'd be carrying the bag. — Bobby Jones

I never learned anything from a match that I won. — Bobby Jones

You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about. — Bobby Jones

Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little. — 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

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

The real way to enjoy playing golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes. — Bobby Jones

It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it. — Bobby Jones

No putt is too short to be despised. — Bobby Jones

Bad putting is due more to the effect the green has upon the player than it has upon the action of the ball. — Bobby Jones

Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it. — Bobby Jones

Rhythm and timing are the two things which we all must have, yet no one knows how to teach either. — Bobby Jones

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

No one ever swung too slowly. — Bobby Jones

In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play. — Bobby Jones