For many years I had an impression of my golf swing, which was that I vividly resembled Tom Weiskopf in the takeaway and Dave Marr on the downswing. Unfortunately, there came a day when I was invited to have my golf swing filmed via a video camera. Something I will never do again. When it was played back, what I saw - what you would have seen - was not Weiskopf and Marr but a man simultaneously climbing into a sweater and falling out of a tree.

The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible.

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality and its decadence.

I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.

No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.