Bobby Jones Play Quotations

I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.

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

Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.

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

Well, I'm glad we don't have to play in the shade.

Bad putting is due more to the effect the green has upon the player than it has upon the action of the ball.

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.

In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.

The rewards of golf, and of life too I expect, are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules.

Golf is recognized as one of the more difficult games to play or teach. One reason for this is that each person necessarily plays by feel, and a feel is almost impossible to describe.

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

He plays a game with which I am not familiar.

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.

I think there were times in the game when we put ourselves in bad situations, but I also feel there were crucial plays in the game and the overtime when we got the short end of the stick. We usually don't make any excuses, but sometimes you've got to just let us play ball. When things are obvious you've got to call them. When they are not obvious, don't make it a questionable call.

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.

Cornell? I don't know why we're really playing that game. It messes up our rest.

I really do believe we played like there was 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.

A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying.

If I had ever been set down in any one place and told I was to play there, and nowhere else, for the rest of my life, I should have chosen the Old Course at St. Andrews.

Golf is the only game I know of that actually becomes harder the longer you play it.

I didn't see the replay until yesterday, but it looked like he traveled and went backcourt.

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.

Lets collide and get it over with. We've had our list of streaks to break and been checking them off. This is our improvised list. Everybody knows what it takes. We're playing the team expected to win the national championship. Either you bring it or you don't.

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.

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.

To their credit, they've given us a great effort. They were recruited to be role players for at least a year -- maybe two -- but now they're role players playing starter minutes. They need help. And help is on the way.

Robert Morris has five guys who can step away from the basket and hit the 3 (point shot). We had too many turnovers, especially in the first half. We played better in the second half but built such a huge hole by then it was hard to get back in the game.

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.

We're going into this to do our best, because this is our last go-round. The next time we lose, we won't be college basketball players anymore.

We played our best ball. Life goes on.

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

There were a lot of plays where we got the short end of the stick.

Maybe I should have played to the side, so I saw the pick, because I didn't see it.

The last two times they played at our house it got pretty physical. There were a lot of scuffles, a lot of confrontations. I'm pretty much expecting the same kind of Arizona State.