Bobby Locke Quotes

Delay is preferable to error.

I’d rather be slow and right, than be fast and dead.

Golf is the greatest sport of all to see if you can handle pressure.

I don't do anything without measuring 10 times and cutting once.

I'm rarely wrong.

When you back off, it's easier to do mistakes. For me it's better to ski fast.

The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn't wired that way. You're accustomed to trying to make putts, and when you change that mind-set, your brain short-circuits, especially under pressure.

When in doubt, don't.

Ye have a watch; go your way, make it as sure as ye can.

I'm hesitant to make grand statements because I feel like that it's not exactly what I'm writing about.

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

Fear to let fall a drop and you will spill a lot.

This is no job for impulsive, timid or inattentive souls.

It is always better to be inefficient and correct than to be incorrect and efficient.

Putting is an art. When you're not feeling confident on the greens, it will affect the rest of your game.

I never like to get ahead of myself. I'm not one of those people that do that.

I am trying to be a lot more careful - and to not miss easy balls.

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

Too great haste leads us to error.

If we all leap before we crawl, we might fall.

Too many times I’ve been wrong, I guess being right takes too long.

The more time you have to think things through, the more you have to screw it up.

No putt is too short to be despised.

As there are some faults that have been termed faults on the right side, so there are some errors that might be denominated errors on the safe side. Thus we seldom regret having been too mild, too cautious, or too humble; but we often repent having been too violent, too precipitate, or too proud.

Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.