The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.

I always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me as it bothers some people.

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.

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.

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.

There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.

I'm glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.