Bob Hope Quotes

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.

"Play it as it lies" is one of the fundamental dictates of golf

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

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

'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.

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.

Golf is the only game in which a precise knowledge of the rules can earn one a reputation for bad sportsmanship.

I am very proud of the fact I do not cheat when I'm playing golf.

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.

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.

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

That's the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on.

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.

I think golf can be one of those places where we act and we hope that people act as we would like them to act all the time.

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

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

Caddies are a breed of their own. If you shoot 66, they say, "Man, we shot 66!" But go out and shoot 77, and they say "Hell, he shot 77!"

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.

I would like to deny all allegations by Bob Hope that during my last game of golf, I hit an eagle, a birdie, an elk and a moose.

Golf is a great way for someone to learn discipline, responsibility and sportsmanship.?

Golf is a game not just of manners but of morals.