There's some good news, too, and the good news is that the players [finally] have become more aware of the fact that we [in golf] need sponsors, and we need the good will that is created by the players being, let's say, cooperative with the sponsors - meaning friendly.

I always said that if I have the perfect club then I should play the perfect game.

If you can concentrate on what you're doing and have the desire to do the things you have to do to win, you'll succeed.

If the athlete is fair with the press, he deserves fairness back.

I had a system, and the system worked.

I was born in 1929, that was the depression, so the golf course was manned by my father and two guys, they worked for my dad and they took me with them everywhere they went. And it was fun.

The fans motivated me. They gave me the incentive to want to play and to want to win and to continue to play as my career progressed. They were never a distraction.