I've always been a big thinker that the more international competition that we create through sports the better relationships we'll have with countries.

We have a great field and I'm very happy about that. It's a tough time of year as it gets closer to the Masters, but I'm appreciative of the players who are here, and I'm expecting a great week.

I started [flying] by being scared. When I was an amateur I played a couple tournaments and I had to fly, and got into weather and stuff, and it scared me, and I decided that would not work, I had to learn to fly, I had to find out about airplanes and aeronautical engineering and what it was all about.

I never met a winner who had a work ethic. Not somebody who says I have so much talent that naturally I won.

I enjoy the press. I understand their business.

All the things that I have derived either directly or indirectly through the game of golf are things I owe a great deal to the game and to the people who support the game.

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