Bobby Jones Quotes

Golf is all about patience - one tournament is four days long, 18 holes a day.

It's just golf. As long as I get done without breakin' somethin' or hurtin' somebody, that's my goal.

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course

You can only play one hole at a time.

Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

I'm getting more and more comfortable out on the golf course with the changes I've been making. It's really just a confidence thing in that I love being in contention.

For all the fun, don't forget: I always knew when to put my golf balls down and practice.

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

When you're out here grinding away, firing at some flags, firing at the middle of the green, you just got to be very patient, and I always do a pretty good job of that in the majors.

Everybody wishes they were better at golf.

I just had to get on the golf course and play holes whether it was practice or tournaments. Just keep playing. There's nothing else you can do.

It's been my experience that success in golf comes from not letting your mind wander from the shot you're about to hit.

Golf is day-to-day. It's shot to shot; it's not four days at a time.

I do my best on the golf course. I am learning about the business side of it. But I have a lot of great partners that help me with all those things.

I want to play golf, practice and not do much else. I don't drink, I don't smoke and I hate going places where you have to yell at someone who is about a foot away from you.

One of the worst mistakes you can make in golf is trying to force the game.

There are so many lessons in life that can be learned through golf. I am not afraid to say that I am still learning some of them and probably will continue for some time.

I didn't really get into golf until I was about 14. My mom and dad were taking lessons from a pro an hour and a half from our farm in Cohuna, Australia. When they got home, I'd ask my mom to explain everything they learned - drills and all.

My parents both played golf and introduced me to golf when I was 5 years old. They took me to the driving range and I played around at the range and immediately developed an interest in it.

How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125.

Golf's ultimate moral instruction directs us to find within ourselves a pivotal center of enjoyment: relax into a rhythm that fits the hills and swales, and play the shot at hand - not the last one, or the next one, but the one at your feet, in the poison ivy, where you put it.

You know, one day you make putts and the next day you don't.