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.

The average golfer's problem is not so much the lack of ability as it is lack of knowledge about what he should be doing

Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.

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.

People have always been telling me what I can't do. I guess I have wanted to show them. That's been one of my driving forces all my life.

When I practiced, I practiced to get it right.

Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.