Harry Vardon Quotes

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

If you've ever played golf, you know that you yell 'fore' off the tee. You're not threatening somebody; you're warning them: 'Look, don't get hit by the ball, it's coming.'

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.

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.

"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.

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.

You can, legally, possibly hit and kill a fellow golfer with a ball, and there will not be a lot of trouble because the other golfers will refuse to stop and be witnesses because they will want to keep playing.

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.

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.

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

Golf is fun - until you hit somebody in the head.

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.

In all sports, people get competitive; things happen that shouldn't happen.

'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.

No one has ever bitten me, and I've never bitten anyone on the court.

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

Check my records: you'll find I've never caused a bad injury to a player.

Sometimes you'll get a player who's marking you tightly, and he'll even apologise and say, 'My coach told me to stick close to you and mark you. I know you're a great player.' But I tell him it's fine and to do what he has to do.

You ask me: 'Was he a fair player?' I say: 'No, I'm sorry, for me he was not a fair player.' I just think I respect him highly as a quality player. I did not like some things he did on the football pitch and I have the right to say that. It's not because you are older, suddenly, that you are a saint.

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

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