Top 31 Quotes About The Rules Of Golf
#1. I got a call on a Sunday. 'Do you want to do 'The Godfather?' I thought they were kidding me, right? I said, 'Yes, of course, I love that book' - which I had never read.
Albert S. Ruddy
#2. Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
Jack Nicklaus
#3. But I never figured out how Atticus knew I was listening, and it was not until many years later that I realized he wanted me to hear every word he said.
Harper Lee
#4. This is as strange a maze as e'er men trod:
And there is in this business more than nature
Was ever conduct of
William Shakespeare
#5. I've stated my position, and that is that we do not need a contraption to play the game of golf. I would hope that we'd play under one set of rules, and those rules would include a ban on the long putter hooked to the body in some way, shape or form.
Arnold Palmer
#6. Very often ambition and entrepreneurial drive, in combination, beat brilliance.
Edward O. Wilson
#7. There are two basic rules which should never be broken. Be subtle. And don't, for God's sake, try to do business with anyone who's having a bad game.
William Davis
#8. Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it's not clear that he ever really did.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#9. The problem with art is, it's not like the game of golf where you put the ball in the hole. There's no umpire; there's no judge. There are no rules. It's one of its problems. But it's also one of the great things about art. It becomes a question of what lasts.
Richard Prince
#10. Listen to me, friend. Lay aside your pride or it will entangle you in sin. Anger is your worst enemy.
Francine Rivers
#11. Half of your power lies in your sameness with others. The other half lies in your uniqueness.
Alan Cohen
#12. Awareness is learning to keep yourself company
Geneen Roth
#13. Walking's a great way to create. The ideas seem to fall from the sky sometimes, and the fresh air is great too.
Kenneth Eade
#15. 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.
Bobby Jones
#16. Under most circumstances that would result in disqualification. If the rules of golf are upheld, I believe he should have been disqualified.
Steve Williams
#17. We've got to abide by the rules. We have to protect it. The game of golf at a professional level is so clean. We are our own judge, jury and executioner. If we don't do what we think is right, the game might get away from us.
Greg Norman
#18. Do I have to know rules and all that crap? Then forget it.
John Daly
#19. My intention was always to direct and writing things just became convenient and happened.
Jeff Baena
#20. Golfers should not fail to realize that it is a game of great traditions, of high ideals of sportsmanship, one in which a strict adherence to the rules is essential.
Francis Ouimet
#21. If you call on God to improve the results of a shot while it is still in motion, you are using 'an outside agency' and subject to appropriate penalties under the rules of golf.
Henry Longhurst
#22. The rules are simple and easily understood by anyone who has once seen the game, but to the totally uninitiated they appear to be hopelessly unintelligible.
John Adams Gilmer
#23. They wear masks that hide how hairy they are on the inside.
Benjamin Percy
#24. There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit in the book of rules.
Alistair Cooke
#25. My father wasn't a hard guy. He was a well-liked guy. He had a lot of compassion about things in life. There were rules, but there was also flexibility within those rules. He didn't push me when it came to golf: he just taught me the right way to play the game.
Tom Watson
#26. My daughter, who goes to Stuyvesant High School only blocks from the World Trade Center, thinks we should fly an American flag out our window. Definitely not, I say: The flag stands for jingoism and vengeance and war.
Katha Pollitt
#27. The bigger point here is that golf is a good metaphor for one's life. The challenge of golf for me is trying to learn new rules. It's something you always have to work at; you don't get perfect at golf. It's the never-ending quest for betterment.
Morgan Freeman
#28. Forty-one rules aren't so many - St. Benedict had 73 to keep the brethren on the straight and narrow.
Colman McCarthy
#29. In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
Bobby Jones
#30. Golf requires only a few simple Rules and Regulations to guide the players in the true nature of its sporting appeal. The spirit of the game is its own referee.
Robert Harris
#31. Wherever you find 'men together' - writing the rules, as at exclusive golf or other men's clubs, businesses, and lodges where they wear elaborate robes and funny hats - women are kept completely outside if possible and, when grudgingly admitted, to highly restricted areas or token status.
Eugene Kennedy
