Bobby Jones Quotes (65 Quotes)


    Sometimes the game of golf is just too difficult to endure with a golf club in your hands.

    The fact they jumped out to a 5-0 mark in the conference gives them a lot of confidence. They have some really good players, and they have a legitimate shot at winning this conference. We are having it tough right now with injuries, and we also are a young team. We hope we can give the TV audience a good game to watch.

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

    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. But this is certainly not the case.

    We played sound (defense). If he made it, kudos to him. It's March Madness.


    You look at their roster on paper, and it's like we have no chance. But they don't play 40 straight minutes of great basketball, so we know we have a chance to make some runs and keep ourselves in the game.

    It's been busy. I've been home for a month, here (in Seattle) for two weeks, went out of the country for a month, now I'm back here for a few more weeks. Now I'm just getting ready for school to start. We're doing some conditioning. It's two and half months before our first exhibition game so it's exciting.

    This has probably been the best four years I've ever had in my life. It's sad to see it go away.

    If we win, it will be one of the biggest games in Husky basketball history. At the same time, this could be our last game. So a lot of stuff is at stake.


    But then we took it for granted and started playing lax and started taking bad shots and when we tried to turn it back on, it was too late.

    It was not practical to think of buying more and more expensive ground to keep increasing the length of holes to make them fit for championship play as the ball became more and more powerful, particularly when this increase in power carried no actual advantage to the game in any conceivable form.

    The perfect design should place a premium upon sound judgment as well as accurate striking, by rewarding the correct placing of each shot. Mere length is its own reward, but length without control ought to be punished.

    These freshmen have been terrific. We ask these guys to do an unbelievable task. All of them have grown up in a hurry.

    Oh yeah. We're both athletic. We like to cause turnovers, put pressure on people. We're real similar. There's a lot of different themes that intervene with each other. But when it comes down to it, that just makes the competition level rise that much more. I expect a hard, scrappy game.

    Robert Morris and St. Francis are like the step-children of the Northeast Conference when it comes to TV exposure.

    It's a bad time right now, but life goes on.

    Give Robert Morris a lot of credit. I thought they played like a team desperate to get that fourth seed and the home game. They showed great focus and determination to win this basketball game.

    With two teams that pressure a lot and are physical, once someone gets pushed or aggravated and gets hit, tempers flare up and they get mad and teammates defend teammates and other people get involved. That was usually the case when we played them last year.

    That's a pretty good night. She hadn't been hitting the ball as well as she should have, but tonight she hit it real well.

    They've got three or four (future) pros on their team. People think we're the underdog, but we're going to play like we're the No. 1 team in the nation. We think we deserve a little more credit for what we do.

    If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.


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

    He's a skilled big guy. We certainly could have used him. It was a huge blow for us, a big loss for us. When you lose even one player at this level, it really, really sets you back.

    It takes a special team to win on the road. It takes great guard play to win on the road. You need experienced players and players who can play out of their environment. Look at some of the top teams in the country. Take Pitt for example, which lost to Marquette on the road (Saturday). It is not easy in college basketball to win on the road anywhere. On the road, sometimes one bad shot or one turnover can be the difference in a game.

    Once we get into league, we've got to learn how to play on the road. The thing is, with our youth, are they going to get better at it

    I'm a firm believer that things happen for a reason, and maybe somebody didn't want us to win that game. It was a tough loss, possibly the toughest since I've been here.

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

    We keep it coming. We never give up. The way we play is to always play hard.

    When I'm a little fatigued, sometimes I baby it. I don't try to do it. I'm not 100 percent. I probably won't be the rest of conference play. I just have to play through it. I've never really been injured before.

    When I have started him, he hasn't played as well. I guess he just needs to watch for a few minutes before he goes in. That seems to work. We are still finding out what works, but this team is giving me great effort.

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

    I usually have pretty bad games down there in my hometown. I feel the pressure and I end up stinking it up. But I did the opposite this time.

    Sometimes when confidence has been shaken, it helps to use a new putter for a round or two until a few putts begin to drop and the player's morale has improved. But in the long run, the old horse is best.

    This was probably the most physical game we've played against them. That brings out the best in us, and we're not going to back down. So that just made the game that much more intense and physical. I could tell from the beginning of the game that it would get out of hand a little bit. I got shoved out of bounds one time, and I told the ref they might want to slow things down.

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

    I've read about guys having these types of years. We all read about it. You just don't think it will happen to you.

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

    I think making it a flat fee would be a very good thing. I have a car and a truck and paying a flat fee of 26.25 would save me a little bit of money.

    All I know is, if we win out and UCLA loses, we all end up tied for first. No matter what, we've still got to win our two games.

    The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He's a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too.

    I believe with modern equipment and modern players, we cannot make a good course more difficult or more testing for the expert simply by adding length. The only way to stir them up is by the introduction of subtleties around the greens.

    That was huge. It's like free throws. You make the first one, and on the second one, you don't have as much pressure.

    A lot of people say Mike isn't a big part of this team, but he really is. He does all the little things that a lot of people who don't know the game of basketball don't really realize.

    I didn't know what to expect at first. I was satisfied with it. They didn't make me look bad or anything like that.

    Coach looked at Mike and Mike looked at him and came to the conclusion that this could be it for him, so to go out there like there is no tomorrow.

    I will tell you privately it's not going to get better, it's going to get worse all the time, but don't fret. Remember, we play the ball where it lies, and now let's not talk about this, ever again.

    I particularly regretted winning at the nineteenth hole by the aid of a stymie which was almost impossible to negotiate.

    I remember I went home and surprised my parents for Christmas. I know I had a good game. I made a lot of bank shots. Those rims treated us well.


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