Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Sunday, September 28, 2014 – Bobby Jones
Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Sunday, September 28, 2014 – Bobby Jones
Robert Tyre Jones, Jr retired from golf in 1930, at the age of 28, still an amateur, having just won the Grand Slam. Grantland Rice wrote of him:
“One might as well attempt to describe the smoothness of the wind as to paint a clear picture of his complete swing. A consummate gentleman, he also possessed wit, a temper and a keen intellect, and all of these are evident in his many insights into golf and life.”
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“Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots – but you have to play the ball where it lies.”
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“Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course…the space between your ears.”
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“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.”
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“Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.”
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“The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.”
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“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.”
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“Sometimes the game of golf is just too difficult to endure with a golf club in your hands.”
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Bobby Jones was not only a consummately skilled golfer but exemplified the principles of sportsmanship and fair play. Early in his amateur career, he was in the final round of the 1925 U.S. Open at the Worcester Country Club. During the match, his ball ended up in the rough just off the fairway, and as he was setting up to play his shot, his iron caused a slight movement of the ball. He immediately got angry with himself, turned to the marshals, and called a penalty on himself. The marshals discussed among themselves and questioned some of the gallery whether they had seen Jones’s ball move. Their decision was that neither they nor anyone else had witnessed any incident, so the decision was left to Jones. Bobby Jones called the two-stroke penalty on himself, not knowing that he would lose the tournament by one stroke. When he was praised for his gesture, Jones replied,
“You may as well praise a man for not robbing a bank.”
Wikipedia Page: Bobby Jones
