I can't afford the luxury of music while I'm flying an airplane. I have to pay attention to what I'm doing.

Sam Snead will fly anywhere in my plane with me. Sam's not as worried about the danger as he is about saving money.

When you get into competition and get under pressure, and get over that ball and are looking at it, and know you have to hit it, it is having that system to depend on to get that ball to where you want it to be.

We just became very good friends [with Dwight Eisenhower], we played golf, we played heart exhibitions. Then his doctor said he should not play golf anymore.

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

[Golf]is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well, and a grown man can never master it. Any single round of it is full of unexpected triumphs and perfect shots that end in disaster. It is almost a science, yet it is a puzzle without an answer. It is gratifying and tantalizing, precise and unpredictable. It requires complete concentration and total relaxation. It satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time, rewarding and maddening. And it is without doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.

My father started on this golf course at Latrobe when he was sixteen years old. He was digging ditches when they were building the golf course.