If you are really serious about playing golf and playing good golf, stick to the basic fundamentals. Sure, there's going to be a little change here and a change there, but you don't want to make them. You want to stick to the things that you started with, and you learned, and you know how to apply them.

I never felt I could be a complete professional without having won the British Open. It was something you had to do to complete your career.

I look back, it taught me something - it taught me how to live, how to be a better guy, not let defeat be the end of my life.

I think today's athletes generally are spoiled by what's happened to salaries, but I also think that golfers have maintained the best demeanor of any sport.

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

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.

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.