Bernhard Langer Quotes

The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win.

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

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

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

I never mixed with golfers when I was playing, mainly because I didn't want to talk golf all night.

I don't know where the loyalty lies in baseball. You really don't have to protect each other much, unless there's like a bench-clearing brawl. In hockey, it's important that they look out for each other.

I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to say, the way in which he conducts himself on the playing field, or even over a game of chess or cards.

Olympism is a philosophy which, by blending sport with culture, seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal ethical principles.

I always knew I wanted to play golf and go to college. I try hard to be a positive role model, especially on the golf course. I try to carry myself well, and don't do anything outrageous. I try to play the game like a gentleman and give everyone respect. That's how the game should be played.

But I think the guys are very happy to accommodate the people and that's part of golf in general.

When you're on a golf course, a couple of things are very interesting. No matter who you're with and who you're playing with, people want each other to do well.

Golf's a gentleman's game. So it's all about integrity and you cheer on other people, and it's kind of different from other sports where you just want to beat everyone.

Some sports give a lot of emotions because you know the people well, not personally but they express their passion and their emotion on the field so you have an attraction. In tennis, because of this code of conduct that is extremely strict, players do not show their personality.

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

Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.

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.

From the beginning it was drilled into me that a golf course was a place where character fully reveals itself -- both its strengths and its flaws. As a result, I learned early not only to fix my ball marks but also to congratulate an opponent on a good shot, avoid walking ahead of a player preparing to shoot, remain perfectly still when someone else was playing, and a score of other small courtesies that revealed, in my father's mind, one's abiding respect for the game.

We definitely don't want to get in others' way while we're competing.

People must not lose sight of the fact that football is a game. I would find it healthy that it remain so.

There are a lot of players who fiddle around with their towel in your shot or they get up out of their chair to see if a ball's on when you're about to play your shot.

I'm not a trash talker. I respect my opponents.

I can not express more the importance of treating your teammates, opponents and coaches with the utmost respect.

Golf is really tricky. I feel like you either have to be a broadcaster, or a professional golfer or a golf instructor. If you're not one of those things you don't really fit in the game.

Football unites, and no one can use a football platform for political means.