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

Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?

May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.

This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.

You hear stories about me beating my brains out practicing, but the truth is, I was enjoying myself. I couldn't wait to get up in the morning so I could hit balls. I'd be at the practice tee at the crack of dawn, hit balls for a few hours, then take a break and get right back to it. And I still thoroughly enjoy it. When I'm hitting the ball where I want, hard and crisply - when anyone is - it's a joy that very few people experience.

The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.

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