Bobby Jones Quotes

If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.

Golf is a game in which you yell 'fore,' shoot six, and write down five.

I can only tell you that eggs, country ham, biscuits, a pot of coffee, a morning paper, a table by the window overlooking the veranda and putting green, listening to the idle chitchat of competitors, authors, wits and philosophers, hasn't exactly been a torturous way to begin each day at the Masters all these years.

When I drive into Augusta and down Magnolia Lane, there's just a spirit and nostalgia about it that you experience nowhere else. Why? Because it's the same place every year.

They talk about Amen Corner but there's so much more to it than what meets the eye on this golf course.

When I was playing football, I always felt in complete control. When I play golf and come under pressure, it's a completely different ball game.

I just love playing in major championships.

I'm not a real estate developer. I'm a golfer. I'm a sportsman.

It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.

If golf wasn't enjoyable and there wasn't a lot of humor and enjoyment, even though the game is so frustrating, you would wonder why you put yourself through it.

I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.

It's a dream come true for Bubba Watson from Bagdad, Florida to have the green jacket on.

My dad had me on the golf course. It was just something I could do with my dad.

Since 1934 every accomplished player in golf has come to the Augusta National looking for an introduction into history.

I would like to work 50 Masters Tournaments.

The U.S. Open was something I loved.

Every champion golfer comes to Augusta imbued with a towering source of inspiration. It's a solitary journey, but it's one that no player... makes alone.

Augusta National... an oasis of career-defining moments.

The Masters is poetry to me.

Most people would say it's the start of golf. When you see the flowers blooming at Augusta National and you hear Jim Nantz come on and start speaking about it, it's that time of year.

The Masters isn't about Jim Nantz and his storytelling. It's about golf's greatest tournament.

I've watched the Masters on TV since I was young, I remember watching Jimmy White and a few others, so I can't wait to play there myself.

I've pictured winning the U.S. Open a lot of times before.

I wrote to Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I said: "Here is the sentence once written by the immortal Bobby Jones. I thought you might like to have it done in needlepoint and mounted in a suitable frame to hang over Little John's bed. It says, 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." I never heard from Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I can only conclude that the letter went astray.

I should think it takes a fairly low intellect to draw pleasure from the following activity: hitting a ball with a crooked stick. and then walking after it! An then ..hitting it again!