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

I see no reason that a golf course cannot be played in 18 birdies. Just because no one has ever done that doesn't mean it can't be done.

When I practiced, I practiced to get it right.

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

You hear stories about me beating my brains out practising, but the truth is, I was enjoying myself. I couldn't wait to get up in the morning, so I could hit balls. When I'm hitting the ball where I want, hard and crisply, it's a joy that very few people experience.

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

Hitting a golf ball and putting have nothing in common. They're two different games. You work all your life to perfect a repeating swing that will get you to the greens, and then you have to try to do something that is totally unrelated. There shouldn't be any cups, just flag sticks. And then the man who hit the most fairways and greens and got closest to the pins would be the tournament winner.