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

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

I would never felt good if I hadn't experienced losing, because losing is part of your life. And it something that if I could teach people to understand that I think it could help them a lot.

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.

Frankly, I'm not much for funerals unless it's absolutely an obligation. I don't feel it serves much of a purpose to go and see my friends just lying there, dead. I try to pay my respects to my friends when they're alive.

I think the guys are more conscious of the fact that being in good physical condition under the conditions that they play will make them better players.

I love America. I wanted to play golf.