From Brent Kelley,
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(See also: Bobby Jones Profile)

From Bobby Jones
"The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two."

"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."

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

"No putt is too short to be despised."

On his temper and club-throwing: "Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands."

"No one ever swung too slowly."

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

"The 'enemy' in golf is tension."

"I have seen many good players attempt shots they should have known were impossible."

"The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself."

When he was praised for calling a penalty on himself: "You might as well praise me for not breaking into banks. There is only one way to play this game."

About Bobby Jones
William Campbell, onetime USGA president: "What Jones did was create a model that everyone, consciously or unconsciously, followed. It is why we have so many fine people in golf. He showed the world how to do it."

Sportswriter Grandland Rice: "One might as well attempt to describe the smoothness of the wind as to paint a clear picture of his complete swing."

Grantland Rice: "Bobby Jones is not one in a million persons ... I should say he is one in ten million - or perhaps one in fifty million."

Writer Herbert Warren Wind: "As a young man, he was able to stand up to just about the best that life can offer, which is not easy, and later he stood up with equal grace to just about the worst."

Herbert Warren Wind: "In the opinion of many people, of all the great athletes, Jones came the closest to being what we call a great man."