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.

Golf never ceases to be a challenge, even when it really is just you and the ball out there and nobody else.

On the Old Course at St. Andrews: This is the origin of the game, golf in its purest form, and it's still played that way on a course seemingly untouched by time. Every time I play here, it reminds me that this is still a game.

I played with [Dwight Eisenhower] on the day after I won the Masters at his request. We became everlasting friends. I was with him the day before he died at Walter Reed.

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

I like the Miami because I could play golf all winter.

An athlete must have a certain cockiness to succeed and win, but an athlete must also care about the game he or she plays.