Patrick Campbell Quotes

'Ali' is the story of a lower middle-class golfer who becomes a champion. I find the game very interesting and would like to continue playing it regularly after the movie is wrapped up.

Golf is not, and never has been, a fair game.

I wrote to Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I said: "Here is the sentence once written by the immortal Bobby Jones. I thought you might like to have it done in needlepoint and mounted in a suitable frame to hang over Little John's bed. It says, 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." I never heard from Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I can only conclude that the letter went astray.

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.

I never kick my ball in the rough or improve my lie in a sand trap. For that I have a caddie.

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

I never played a round when I didn't learn something new about the game.

Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.

I always thought of myself as some sort of athlete until I started playing golf a couple years ago.

Golf was my vehicle to competition, and I can't play if I can't compete.

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

In golf, advice is not a big thing. If you don't have the ability, you won't get anywhere no matter how much advice you get. The only thing people can suggest that matters is, be a good person and treat people respectfully. But advice on your game doesn't mean much to me.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.

Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?

Practice, work out, proper nutrition, lots of work on my short game. In golf, that's really where the strokes come off the scorecard.

I play a lot of charity golf mainly. I'm a bandit 18 if I play two or three times a week.

It's just golf. As long as I get done without breakin' somethin' or hurtin' somebody, that's my goal.

Golf is a very, very frustrating game.

As we all know, the concept of the gimme putt is anathema to the PGA Tour.

It's up to the referee to decide what is and isn't a foul.

If we are to preserve the integrity of golf as left to us by our forefathers, it is up to all of us to carry on the true spirit of the game.

If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near him and audibly count his strokes. It would be justifiable homicide if he wound up his pitiable exhibition by applying his niblick to your head.

President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner have agreed to play a round of golf together. Imagine the two of them at the end of that golf game? Boehner will be crying over his score and Obama will be giving three explanations as to why his score is actually better than it appears.

From its earliest beginnings, golf has been a gentleman's game - to be played as much for the sake of the game as for the contest.