Control is the main thing, and the tee shot is the most important shot in golf. You've got to hit the fairway before you have a good chance of putting the ball close to the pin. You can be the greatest iron player in the world, but if you're in the boondocks it won't do you any good.

I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.

Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots.

Like most professional golfers, I have a tendency to remember my poor shots a shade more vividly than the good ones.

Certainly, if you can't manage your game, you can't play tournament golf. You continually have to ask yourself what club to play, where to aim it, whether to accept a safe par or to try to go for a birdie. You can't play every hole the same way. I never could.

I don't believe there is anything like a natural golf swing. A golf swing is an unnatural thing, and it has to be developed.

Hit the ball up to the hole... You meet a better class of people up there.