I was national amateur champion. I was 24 years old. My father was there, and I couldn't wait to see him, and my mother. I went up and was waiting for all the accolades, and my mom was teary and happy and my dad looked at me and said, "Well, boy, you did good," and that was it.

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

First time I met Jack [Nicholas ] I had heard about his golf and prowess - I was playing in the Ohio amateur.

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

I am so pleased with my golf course. I am to say that it's the best I've ever seen it - without equivocation.

I have a psychological feeling about things - and if I have something that I need to accomplish and I accomplish it, I let down after that, and that happened to me in golf.

I'm not much for sitting around and thinking about the past or talking about the past. What does that accomplish?