Top 25 Rules Of Golf Quotes
#1. Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.
Federica Montseny
#2. Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
Jack Nicklaus
#3. If there isn't a sequence of 15 previous passes, a good transition between attack and defence is impossible. Impossible.
Pep Guardiola
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. How can I teach my boys the value and beauty of language and thus communication when the President himself reads westerns exclusively and cannot put together a simple English sentence? (John Steinbeck, in a private letter written during the Eisenhower administration)
John Steinbeck
#8. I'm talking about a little proposition for us both to get something we really, really want. I give a little, and you give a little.
Aidan
Katie Ashley
#10. 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
#11. Under most circumstances that would result in disqualification. If the rules of golf are upheld, I believe he should have been disqualified.
Steve Williams
#12. 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
#13. Do I have to know rules and all that crap? Then forget it.
John Daly
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. It's amazing what you can see when you just sit quietly and look.
Jacqueline Kelly
#21. The mind generally takes up various objects, runs into all sorts of things. That is the lower state. There is a higher state of the mind, when it takes up one object and excludes all others.
Swami Vivekananda
#22. Forty-one rules aren't so many - St. Benedict had 73 to keep the brethren on the straight and narrow.
Colman McCarthy
#23. In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
Bobby Jones
#24. 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
#25. 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
