I enjoyed the fans thoroughly, and they were always helpful. They were the reason that I tried so hard over the years.

That's another thing about my father. He made me very conscious of the fact I wasn't very good and I had to prove to him that I was good. And that hung with me, and I always wanted to play golf with him and show him. He said Never, Never tell anyone how good you are. Show them!

I had a system, and the system worked.

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.

I am against making golf courses obsolete, going to the national Open and playing half the holes with a one-iron.

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.

It is such a disappointment in American political reaction and actions. When some of our politicians are flying around the country in private airplanes all the time, using public services as their mode of private transportation, and then criticizing us who are in business.