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

I dreamed one night that I had 17 holes-in-one and one two, and when I woke up I was so goddam mad.

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.

The truth is, the first golf club I owned was an old left-handed, wooden-shafted, rib-faced mashie that a fellow gave me, and that's the club I was weaned on. During the mornings we caddies would bang the ball up and down the practice field until the members arrived and it was time to go to work. So I did all that formative practice left-handed. But I'm a natural right-hander.

I liked to win, but more than anything, I loved to play the way I wanted to play

Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.

You only hit a straight ball by accident. The ball is going to move right or left every time you hit it, so you had better make it go one way or the other.