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.

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

You never fight your eye when you look at a hole. If it looks one way, play it that way. Don't make a big deal out of an easy shot.

Every day that you don't practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness

If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.

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

There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.